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 span documents
editExample span documents
editThis example shows what span documents can look like when indexed in Elasticsearch:
[
{
"@timestamp": "2017-05-30T18:53:27.154Z",
"agent": {
"name": "elastic-node",
"version": "3.14.0"
},
"ecs": {
"version": "1.11.0"
},
"event": {
"outcome": "unknown"
},
"http": {
"request": {
"method": "GET"
},
"response": {
"status_code": 200
}
},
"labels": {
"span_tag": "something"
},
"observer": {
"ephemeral_id": "c0cea3b6-97d7-4e15-9e35-c868e7a3c869",
"hostname": "ix.lan",
"id": "a49b4a08-689a-4724-8050-8bd0ae043281",
"type": "apm-server",
"version": "8.0.0",
"version_major": 8
},
"parent": {
"id": "945254c567a5417e"
},
"processor": {
"event": "span",
"name": "transaction"
},
"service": {
"environment": "staging",
"name": "1234_service-12a3"
},
"span": {
"action": "query",
"db": {
"instance": "customers",
"statement": "SELECT * FROM product_types WHERE user_id=?",
"type": "sql",
"user": {
"name": "readonly_user"
}
},
"duration": {
"us": 3781
},
"http": {
"method": "GET",
"response": {
"status_code": 200
}
},
"http.url.original": "http://localhost:8000",
"id": "0aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
"name": "SELECT FROM product_types",
"stacktrace": [
{
"abs_path": "net.js",
"context": {
"post": [
" ins.currentTransaction = prev",
" return result",
"}"
],
"pre": [
" var trans = this.currentTransaction",
""
]
},
"exclude_from_grouping": false,
"filename": "net.js",
"function": "onread",
"library_frame": true,
"line": {
"column": 4,
"context": "line3",
"number": 547
},
"module": "some module",
"vars": {
"key": "value"
}
},
{
"exclude_from_grouping": false,
"filename": "my2file.js",
"line": {
"number": 10
}
}
],
"start": {
"us": 2830
},
"subtype": "postgresql",
"sync": false,
"type": "db"
},
"timestamp": {
"us": 1496170407154000
},
"trace": {
"id": "945254c567a5417eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
},
"transaction": {
"id": "945254c567a5417e"
},
"url": {
"original": "http://localhost:8000"
}
},
{
"@timestamp": "2017-05-30T18:53:42.281Z",
"agent": {
"name": "js-base",
"version": "1.3"
},
"destination": {
"address": "0:0::0:1",
"ip": "0:0::0:1",
"port": 5432
},
"ecs": {
"version": "1.11.0"
},
"event": {
"outcome": "unknown"
},
"observer": {
"ephemeral_id": "2f13d8fa-83cd-4356-8123-aabfb47a1808",
"hostname": "goat",
"id": "17ad47dd-5671-4c89-979f-ef4533565ba2",
"type": "apm-server",
"version": "8.0.0",
"version_major": 8
},
"parent": {
"id": "85925e55b43f4342"
},
"processor": {
"event": "span",
"name": "transaction"
},
"service": {
"environment": "staging",
"name": "serviceabc"
},
"span": {
"action": "query.custom",
"db": {
"instance": "customers",
"statement": "SELECT * FROM product_types WHERE user_id=?",
"type": "sql",
"user": {
"name": "readonly_user"
}
},
"destination": {
"service": {
"name": "postgresql",
"resource": "postgresql",
"type": "db"
}
},
"duration": {
"us": 3781
},
"id": "15aaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
"name": "SELECT FROM product_types",
"start": {
"us": 2830
},
"subtype": "postgresql",
"type": "db.postgresql.query"
},
"timestamp": {
"us": 1496170422281000
},
"trace": {
"id": "85925e55b43f4342aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
},
"transaction": {
"id": "85925e55b43f4342"
}
},
{
"@timestamp": "2017-05-30T18:53:27.154Z",
"agent": {
"name": "elastic-node",
"version": "3.14.0"
},
"ecs": {
"version": "1.11.0"
},
"event": {
"outcome": "unknown"
},
"observer": {
"ephemeral_id": "2f13d8fa-83cd-4356-8123-aabfb47a1808",
"hostname": "goat",
"id": "17ad47dd-5671-4c89-979f-ef4533565ba2",
"type": "apm-server",
"version": "8.0.0",
"version_major": 8
},
"parent": {
"id": "945254c567a5417e"
},
"processor": {
"event": "span",
"name": "transaction"
},
"service": {
"environment": "staging",
"name": "1234_service-12a3"
},
"span": {
"duration": {
"us": 32592
},
"id": "1aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
"name": "GET /api/types",
"start": {
"us": 0
},
"subtype": "external",
"type": "request"
},
"timestamp": {
"us": 1496170407154000
},
"trace": {
"id": "945254c567a5417eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
},
"transaction": {
"id": "945254c567a5417e"
}
},
{
"@timestamp": "2017-05-30T18:53:27.154Z",
"agent": {
"name": "elastic-node",
"version": "3.14.0"
},
"ecs": {
"version": "1.11.0"
},
"event": {
"outcome": "unknown"
},
"observer": {
"ephemeral_id": "2f13d8fa-83cd-4356-8123-aabfb47a1808",
"hostname": "goat",
"id": "17ad47dd-5671-4c89-979f-ef4533565ba2",
"type": "apm-server",
"version": "8.0.0",
"version_major": 8
},
"parent": {
"id": "945254c567a5417e"
},
"processor": {
"event": "span",
"name": "transaction"
},
"service": {
"environment": "staging",
"name": "1234_service-12a3"
},
"span": {
"action": "post",
"duration": {
"us": 3564
},
"id": "2aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
"name": "GET /api/types",
"start": {
"us": 1845
},
"subtype": "http",
"type": "request"
},
"timestamp": {
"us": 1496170407154000
},
"trace": {
"id": "945254c567a5417eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
},
"transaction": {
"id": "945254c567a5417e"
}
},
{
"@timestamp": "2017-05-30T18:53:27.154Z",
"agent": {
"name": "elastic-node",
"version": "3.14.0"
},
"child": {
"id": [
"4aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
]
},
"ecs": {
"version": "1.11.0"
},
"event": {
"outcome": "unknown"
},
"observer": {
"ephemeral_id": "2f13d8fa-83cd-4356-8123-aabfb47a1808",
"hostname": "goat",
"id": "17ad47dd-5671-4c89-979f-ef4533565ba2",
"type": "apm-server",
"version": "8.0.0",
"version_major": 8
},
"parent": {
"id": "945254c567a5417e"
},
"processor": {
"event": "span",
"name": "transaction"
},
"service": {
"environment": "staging",
"name": "1234_service-12a3"
},
"span": {
"duration": {
"us": 13980
},
"id": "3aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
"name": "GET /api/types",
"start": {
"us": 0
},
"type": "request"
},
"timestamp": {
"us": 1496170407154000
},
"trace": {
"id": "945254c567a5417eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
},
"transaction": {
"id": "945254c567a5417e"
}
}
]