- Observability: other versions:
- What is Elastic Observability?
- What’s new in 8.15
- Get started
- Observability AI Assistant
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Self manage APM Server
- Data Model
- Features
- Navigate the APM UI
- Perform common tasks in the APM UI
- Configure APM agents with central config
- Control access to APM data
- Create an alert
- Create and upload source maps (RUM)
- Create custom links
- Filter data
- Find transaction latency and failure correlations
- Identify deployment details for APM agents
- Integrate with machine learning
- Explore mobile sessions with Discover
- Observe Lambda functions
- Query your data
- Storage Explorer
- Track deployments with annotations
- Use OpenTelemetry
- Manage storage
- Configure
- Advanced setup
- Secure communication
- Monitor
- APM Server API
- APM UI API
- Troubleshoot
- Upgrade
- Release notes
- Known issues
- Log monitoring
- Infrastructure monitoring
- AWS monitoring
- Azure monitoring
- Synthetic monitoring
- Get started
- Scripting browser monitors
- Configure lightweight monitors
- Manage monitors
- Work with params and secrets
- Analyze monitor data
- Monitor resources on private networks
- Use the CLI
- Configure projects
- Multi-factor Authentication
- Configure Synthetics settings
- Grant users access to secured resources
- Manage data retention
- Use Synthetics with traffic filters
- Migrate from the Elastic Synthetics integration
- Scale and architect a deployment
- Synthetics support matrix
- Synthetics Encryption and Security
- Troubleshooting
- Uptime monitoring
- Real user monitoring
- Universal Profiling
- Alerting
- Service-level objectives (SLOs)
- Cases
- CI/CD observability
- Troubleshooting
- Fields reference
- Tutorials
Filters
editFilters
editGlobal filters are ways you can filter data across the APM UI based on a specific time range or environment. When viewing a specific service, the filter persists as you move between tabs.

If you prefer to use advanced queries on your data to filter on specific pieces of information, see Query your data.
Global time range
editThe global time range filter in Kibana restricts APM data to a specific time period.
Service environment filter
editThe environment selector is a global filter for service.environment
.
It allows you to view only relevant data and is especially useful for separating development from production environments.
By default, all environments are displayed. If there are no environment options, you’ll see "not defined".
Service environments are defined when configuring your APM agents. It’s vital to be consistent when naming environments in your APM agents. To learn how to configure service environments, see the specific APM agent documentation:
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Go:
ELASTIC_APM_ENVIRONMENT
- iOS agent: Not yet supported
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Java:
environment
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.NET:
Environment
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Node.js:
environment
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PHP:
environment
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Python:
environment
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Ruby:
environment
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Real User Monitoring:
environment
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