Settings for internal collectionedit
Use the following settings to configure internal collection when you are not using Metricbeat to collect monitoring data.
You specify these settings in the X-Pack monitoring section of the
apm-server.yml
config file:
monitoring.enabled
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The monitoring.enabled
config is a boolean setting to enable or disable X-Pack monitoring.
If set to true
, monitoring is enabled.
The default value is false
.
monitoring.elasticsearch
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The Elasticsearch instances that you want to ship your APM Server metrics to. This configuration option contains the following fields:
api_key
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The detail of the API key to be used to send monitoring information to Elasticsearch. See Grant access using API keys for more information.
bulk_max_size
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The maximum number of metrics to bulk in a single Elasticsearch bulk API index request.
The default is 50
. For more information, see Elasticsearch.
backoff.init
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The number of seconds to wait before trying to reconnect to Elasticsearch after
a network error. After waiting backoff.init
seconds, APM Server tries to
reconnect. If the attempt fails, the backoff timer is increased exponentially up
to backoff.max
. After a successful connection, the backoff timer is reset. The
default is 1s.
backoff.max
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The maximum number of seconds to wait before attempting to connect to Elasticsearch after a network error. The default is 60s.
compression_level
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The gzip compression level. Setting this value to 0
disables compression. The
compression level must be in the range of 1
(best speed) to 9
(best
compression). The default value is 0
. Increasing the compression level
reduces the network usage but increases the CPU usage.
headers
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Custom HTTP headers to add to each request. For more information, see Elasticsearch.
hosts
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The list of Elasticsearch nodes to connect to. Monitoring metrics are distributed to these nodes in round robin order. For more information, see Elasticsearch.
max_retries
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The number of times to retry sending the monitoring metrics after a failure.
After the specified number of retries, the metrics are typically dropped. The
default value is 3
. For more information, see Elasticsearch.
parameters
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Dictionary of HTTP parameters to pass within the url with index operations.
password
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The password that APM Server uses to authenticate with the Elasticsearch instances for shipping monitoring data.
metrics.period
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The time interval (in seconds) when metrics are sent to the Elasticsearch cluster. A new snapshot of APM Server metrics is generated and scheduled for publishing each period. The default value is 10 * time.Second.
state.period
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The time interval (in seconds) when state information are sent to the Elasticsearch cluster. A new snapshot of APM Server state is generated and scheduled for publishing each period. The default value is 60 * time.Second.
protocol
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The name of the protocol to use when connecting to the Elasticsearch cluster. The options
are: http
or https
. The default is http
. If you specify a URL for hosts
,
however, the value of protocol is overridden by the scheme you specify in the URL.
proxy_url
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The URL of the proxy to use when connecting to the Elasticsearch cluster. For more information, see Elasticsearch.
timeout
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The HTTP request timeout in seconds for the Elasticsearch request. The default is 90
.
ssl
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Configuration options for Transport Layer Security (TLS) or Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL) parameters like the certificate authority (CA) to use for HTTPS-based
connections. If the ssl
section is missing, the host CAs are used for
HTTPS connections to Elasticsearch. For more information, see SSL output settings.
username
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The user ID that APM Server uses to authenticate with the Elasticsearch instances for shipping monitoring data.