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APM settings in Kibana

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APM settings in Kibana

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These settings allow the APM app to function, and specify the data that it surfaces. Unless you’ve customized your setup, you do not need to configure any settings to use the APM app. It is enabled by default.

APM indices

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Index defaults can be changed in Kibana. Open the main menu, then click APM > Settings > Indices. Index settings in the APM app take precedence over those set in kibana.yml.

General APM settings

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If you’d like to change any of the default values, copy and paste the relevant settings into your kibana.yml configuration file. Changing these settings may disable features of the APM App.

xpack.apm.enabled: Set to false to disable the APM app. Defaults to true.
xpack.apm.serviceMapFingerprintBucketSize: Maximum number of unique transaction combinations sampled for generating service map focused on a specific service. Defaults to 100.
xpack.apm.serviceMapFingerprintGlobalBucketSize: Maximum number of unique transaction combinations sampled for generating the global service map. Defaults to 100.
xpack.apm.ui.enabled: Set to false to hide the APM app from the main menu. Defaults to true.
xpack.apm.ui.transactionGroupBucketSize: Number of top transaction groups displayed in the APM app. Defaults to 1000.
xpack.apm.ui.maxTraceItems: Maximum number of child items displayed when viewing trace details. Defaults to 1000.
xpack.observability.annotations.index: Index name where Observability annotations are stored. Defaults to observability-annotations.
xpack.apm.searchAggregatedTransactions: [preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Enables Transaction histogram metrics. Defaults to false. When true, additional configuration in APM Server is required. See Configure transaction metrics for more information.
apm_oss.indexPattern: The index pattern used for integrations with Machine Learning and Query Bar. It must match all apm indices. Defaults to apm-*.
apm_oss.errorIndices: Matcher for all error indices. Defaults to apm-*.
apm_oss.onboardingIndices: Matcher for all onboarding indices. Defaults to apm-*.
apm_oss.spanIndices: Matcher for all span indices. Defaults to apm-*.
apm_oss.transactionIndices: Matcher for all transaction indices. Defaults to apm-*.
apm_oss.metricsIndices: Matcher for all metrics indices. Defaults to apm-*.
apm_oss.sourcemapIndices: Matcher for all source map indices. Defaults to apm-*.

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