- Legacy APM Server Reference:
- Overview
- Get started
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- How-to guides
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- Secure
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- API
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- Exported fields
- APM Application Metrics fields
- APM Error fields
- APM Profile fields
- APM Sourcemap fields
- APM Span fields
- APM Span Metrics fields
- APM Transaction fields
- APM Transaction Metrics fields
- APM Transaction Metrics fields
- Beat fields
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- Docker fields
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- Troubleshoot
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- Release notes
- APM Server version 7.15
- APM Server version 7.14
- APM Server version 7.13
- APM Server version 7.12
- APM Server version 7.11
- APM Server version 7.10
- APM Server version 7.9
- APM Server version 7.8
- APM Server version 7.7
- APM Server version 7.6
- APM Server version 7.5
- APM Server version 7.4
- APM Server version 7.3
- APM Server version 7.2
- APM Server version 7.1
- APM Server version 7.0
- APM Server version 6.8
- APM Server version 6.7
- APM Server version 6.6
- APM Server version 6.5
- APM Server version 6.4
- APM Server version 6.3
- APM Server version 6.2
- APM Server version 6.1
- APM integration (Elastic Agent)
The Elastic APM integration became generally available in 7.16 — see the APM Guide for updated documentation. Standalone APM Server users can see the Legacy APM Overview and Legacy APM Server Reference.
Example Request Body
editExample Request Body
editA request body example containing one event for all currently supported event types.
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"user":{"id":"99","username":"foo","email":"foo@mail.com"},"tags":{"organization_uuid":"9f0e9d64-c185-4d21-a6f4-4673ed561ec8","tag5":null},"custom":{"my_key":1,"some_other_value":"foobar","and_objects":{"foo":["bar","baz"]},"(":"notavalidregexandthatisfine"}}}} {"metricset":{"samples":{"transaction.breakdown.count":{"value":12},"transaction.duration.sum.us":{"value":12},"transaction.duration.count":{"value":2},"transaction.self_time.sum.us":{"value":10},"transaction.self_time.count":{"value":2},"span.self_time.count":{"value":1},"span.self_time.sum.us":{"value":633.288},"byte_counter":{"value":1},"short_counter":{"value":227},"integer_gauge":{"value":42767},"long_gauge":{"value":3147483648},"float_gauge":{"value":9.16},"double_gauge":{"value":3.141592653589793},"dotted.float.gauge":{"value":6.12},"negative.d.o.t.t.e.d":{"value":-1022}},"tags":{"code":200,"success":true},"transaction":{"type":"request","name":"GET/"},"span":{"type":"db","subtype":"mysql"},"timestamp":1571657444929001}}
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