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APM agent log sending

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APM agent log sending

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Elastic APM agents can automatically capture and send logs directly to APM Server—​enabling you to easily ingest log events without needing a separate log shipper like Filebeat.

Requirements

The Elastic APM agent for your programming language.

Pros

  • Simple to set up as it only relies on the APM agent
  • No modification of the application required
  • No need to deploy Filebeat
  • No need to store log files in the file system.

Cons

  • Experimental feature
  • Limited APM agent support
  • Not resilient to outages: Log messages can be dropped when buffered in the agent or in APM Server

Supported APM agents/languages

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See the Java agent documentation to get started.

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