APM settings in Kibanaedit
You do not need to configure any settings to use the APM app. It is enabled by default.
APM Indicesedit
Index defaults can be changed in Kibana. Navigate to APM > Settings > Indices.
Index settings in the APM app take precedence over those set in kibana.yml.
General APM settingsedit
If you’d like to change any of the default values,
copy and paste the relevant settings into your kibana.yml configuration file.
- xpack.apm.enabled
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Set to
falseto disabled the APM plugin Kibana. Defaults totrue. - xpack.apm.ui.enabled
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Set to
falseto hide the APM plugin Kibana from the menu. Defaults totrue. - xpack.apm.ui.transactionGroupBucketSize
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Number of top transaction groups displayed in APM plugin in Kibana. Defaults to
100. - xpack.apm.ui.maxTraceItems
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Max number of child items displayed when viewing trace details. Defaults to
1000. - apm_oss.indexPattern
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Index pattern is used for integrations with Machine Learning and Kuery Bar. It must match all apm indices. Defaults to
apm-*. - apm_oss.errorIndices
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Matcher for indices containing error documents. Defaults to
apm-*. - apm_oss.onboardingIndices
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Matcher for indices containing onboarding documents. Defaults to
apm-*. - apm_oss.spanIndices
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Matcher for indices containing span documents. Defaults to
apm-*. - apm_oss.transactionIndices
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Matcher for indices containing transaction documents. Defaults to
apm-*. - apm_oss.metricsIndices
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Matcher for indices containing metric documents. Defaults to
apm-*. - apm_oss.sourcemapIndices
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Matcher for indices containing sourcemap documents. Defaults to
apm-*.