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Send APM data to Elastic

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Send APM data to Elastic

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Required role

The Admin role or higher is required to send APM data to Elastic. To learn more, refer to Assign user roles and privileges.

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Send APM data to Elastic with:

  • Elastic APM agents: Elastic APM agents are lightweight libraries you install in your applications and services. They automatically instrument supported technologies, and offer APIs for custom code instrumentation.
  • OpenTelemetry: OpenTelemetry is a set of APIs, SDKs, tooling, and integrations that enable the capture and management of telemetry data from your services and applications.

Elastic also supports instrumentation of AWS Lambda functions.

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