APM settings in Kibana
editAPM settings in Kibana
editThese 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
editIndex defaults can be changed in the APM app. Select Settings > Indices.
Index settings in the APM app take precedence over those set in kibana.yml
.
General APM settings
editIf 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.
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xpack.apm.enabled
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Set to
false
to disable the APM app. Defaults totrue
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xpack.apm.maxServiceEnvironments
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Maximum number of unique service environments recognized by the UI. Defaults to
100
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xpack.apm.serviceMapFingerprintBucketSize
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Maximum number of unique transaction combinations sampled for generating service map focused on a specific service. Defaults to
100
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xpack.apm.serviceMapFingerprintGlobalBucketSize
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Maximum number of unique transaction combinations sampled for generating the global service map. Defaults to
100
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xpack.apm.ui.enabled
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Set to
false
to hide the APM app from the main menu. Defaults totrue
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xpack.apm.ui.transactionGroupBucketSize
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Number of top transaction groups displayed in the APM app. Defaults to
1000
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xpack.apm.ui.maxTraceItems
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Maximum number of child items displayed when viewing trace details. Defaults to
1000
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xpack.observability.annotations.index
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Index name where Observability annotations are stored. Defaults to
observability-annotations
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xpack.apm.searchAggregatedTransactions
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[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
auto
so the UI will use metric indices over transaction indices for transactions if aggregated transactions are found. When set toalways
, additional configuration in APM Server is required. When set tonever
and aggregated transactions are not used.See Configure transaction metrics for more information.
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apm_oss.indexPattern
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The index pattern used for integrations with Machine Learning and Query Bar.
It must match all apm indices. Defaults to
apm-*
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apm_oss.errorIndices
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Matcher for all error indices. Defaults to
apm-*
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apm_oss.onboardingIndices
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Matcher for all onboarding indices. Defaults to
apm-*
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apm_oss.spanIndices
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Matcher for all span indices. Defaults to
apm-*
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apm_oss.transactionIndices
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Matcher for all transaction indices. Defaults to
apm-*
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apm_oss.metricsIndices
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Matcher for all metrics indices. Defaults to
apm-*
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apm_oss.sourcemapIndices
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Matcher for all source map indices. Defaults to
apm-*
.