Integrations Server, and more

Introducing Integrations Server

You can now use Integrations Server to add a combined Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Server and Fleet Server to your deployment. APM allows you to monitor software services and applications in real time, turning that data into documents stored in the Elasticsearch cluster. Fleet allows you to centrally manage Elastic Agents on many hosts. To get started using Integrations Server in Elasticsearch Service, check Manage your Integrations Server.

Update deployment UI for Enterprise Search. On Elastic stack versions 8.0 and above, access to Enterprise Search is now handled automatically through Kibana. Accordingly, on the deployments page of the Elasticsearch Service UI, we removed the "Open" link for Enterprise Search, and the "Copy endpoint" link also results in a URL to / instead of /login.

Remove Enterprise Search login_assistance_message. On Elastic stack versions 8.0 and above, access to Enterprise Search is now handled automatically through Kibana. Accordingly, the Enterprise Search login_assistance_message setting has been removed for versions 8.0 and above.

Remove deprecated plan parameters. The following API parameters are no longer available in Elasticsearch Service:

Removing APM payload in deployments API. Beginning with Elastic Stack version 8.0, the Apm payload in the deployments API will be deprecated. New deployments should be created using the integrations_server payload. After the Elastic Stack 8.0 release is available, refer to the Definitions section of the API documentation to see the expected payload format.

Deprecated APM user settings. The following APM settings will be removed in Elastic Stack version 8.0. This change is only relevant to users upgrading a standalone (legacy) deployment of APM Server to Elastic Stack version 8.0. Check Add APM user settings for more details.

apm-server.api_key.enabled
apm-server.api_key.limit
apm-server.ilm.*
apm-server.frontend.*
apm-server.register.*
apm-server.rum.allow_service_names
apm-server.rum.event_rate.lru_size
apm-server.rum.event_rate.limit
apm-server.rum.rate_limit
output.elasticsearch.bulk_max_size
output.elasticsearch.index
output.elasticsearch.indices
output.elasticsearch.pipeline
output.elasticsearch.pipelines
output.elasticsearch.worker
setup.*
queue.*

Update planning documentation for HA requirements. Added information to the Elasticsearch Service planning documentation about high availability requirements for Elasticsearch nodes in multiple data centers, and about having replicas for Elasticsearch indexes.