Configure APM instrumentation
editConfigure APM instrumentation
editAPM Server uses the Elastic APM Go Agent to instrument its publishing pipeline. To gain insight into the performance of APM Server, you can enable this instrumentation and send trace data to APM Server. Currently, only the Elasticsearch output is instrumented.
Example configuration with instrumentation enabled:
instrumentation: enabled: true environment: production hosts: - "http://localhost:8200" api_key: L5ER6FEvjkmlfalBealQ3f3fLqf03fazfOV
Configuration options
editYou can specify the following options in the instrumentation
section of the apm-server.yml
config file:
enabled
Set to true
to enable instrumentation of APM Server.
Defaults to false
.
environment
Set the environment in which APM Server is running, for example, staging
, production
, dev
, etc.
Environments can be filtered in the Kibana Applications UI.
hosts
The APM Server hosts to report instrumentation data to.
Defaults to http://localhost:8200
.
api_key
API key used to secure communication with the APM Server(s).
If api_key
is set then secret_token
will be ignored.
secret_token
Secret token used to secure communication with the APM Server(s).