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Agent Configuration API

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Agent Configuration API
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The APM agent configuration API allows you to fine-tune your APM agent configuration, without needing to redeploy your application.

The following APM agent configuration APIs are available:

How to use APM APIsedit
Expand for required headers, privileges, and usage details

Interact with APM APIs using cURL or another API tool. All APM APIs are Kibana APIs, not Elasticsearch APIs; because of this, the Kibana dev tools console cannot be used to interact with APM APIs.

For all APM APIs, you must use a request header. Supported headers are Authorization, kbn-xsrf, and Content-Type.

Authorization: ApiKey {credentials}

Kibana supports token-based authentication with the Elasticsearch API key service. The API key returned by the Elasticsearch create API key API can be used by sending a request with an Authorization header that has a value of ApiKey followed by the {credentials}, where {credentials} is the base64 encoding of id and api_key joined by a colon.

Alternatively, you can create a user and use their username and password to authenticate API access: -u $USER:$PASSWORD.

Whether using Authorization: ApiKey {credentials}, or -u $USER:$PASSWORD, users interacting with APM APIs must have sufficient privileges.

kbn-xsrf: true

By default, you must use kbn-xsrf for all API calls, except in the following scenarios:

  • The API endpoint uses the GET or HEAD operations
  • The path is allowed using the server.xsrf.allowlist setting
  • XSRF protections are disabled using the server.xsrf.disableProtection setting
Content-Type: application/json
Applicable only when you send a payload in the API request. Kibana API requests and responses use JSON. Typically, if you include the kbn-xsrf header, you must also include the Content-Type header.
Create or update configuration
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Requestedit

PUT /api/apm/settings/agent-configuration

Request bodyedit
service

(required, object) Service identifying the configuration to create or update.

Properties of service
name
(required, string) Name of service
environment
(optional, string) Environment of service
settings
(required) Key/value object with option name and option value.
agent_name
(optional) The agent name is used by the UI to determine which settings to display.
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PUT /api/apm/settings/agent-configuration
{
    "service": {
        "name": "frontend",
        "environment": "production"
    },
    "settings": {
        "transaction_sample_rate": "0.4",
        "capture_body": "off",
        "transaction_max_spans": "500"
    },
    "agent_name": "nodejs"
}
Delete configuration
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DELETE /api/apm/settings/agent-configuration

Request bodyedit
service

(required, object) Service identifying the configuration to delete

Properties of service
name
(required, string) Name of service
environment
(optional, string) Environment of service
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DELETE /api/apm/settings/agent-configuration
{
    "service" : {
        "name": "frontend",
        "environment": "production"
    }
}
List configuration
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GET /api/apm/settings/agent-configuration

Response bodyedit
[
  {
    "agent_name": "go",
    "service": {
      "name": "opbeans-go",
      "environment": "production"
    },
    "settings": {
      "transaction_sample_rate": "1",
      "capture_body": "off",
      "transaction_max_spans": "200"
    },
    "@timestamp": 1581934104843,
    "applied_by_agent": false,
    "etag": "1e58c178efeebae15c25c539da740d21dee422fc"
  },
  {
    "agent_name": "go",
    "service": {
      "name": "opbeans-go"
    },
    "settings": {
      "transaction_sample_rate": "1",
      "capture_body": "off",
      "transaction_max_spans": "300"
    },
    "@timestamp": 1581934111727,
    "applied_by_agent": false,
    "etag": "3eed916d3db434d9fb7f039daa681c7a04539a64"
  },
  {
    "agent_name": "nodejs",
    "service": {
      "name": "frontend"
    },
    "settings": {
      "transaction_sample_rate": "1",
    },
    "@timestamp": 1582031336265,
    "applied_by_agent": false,
    "etag": "5080ed25785b7b19f32713681e79f46996801a5b"
  }
]
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GET  /api/apm/settings/agent-configuration
Search configuration
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Requestedit

POST /api/apm/settings/agent-configuration/search

Request bodyedit
service

(required, object) Service identifying the configuration.

Properties of service
name
(required, string) Name of service
environment
(optional, string) Environment of service
etag
(required) etag is sent by the APM agent to indicate the etag of the last successfully applied configuration. If the etag matches an existing configuration its applied_by_agent property will be set to true. Every time a configuration is edited applied_by_agent is reset to false.
Response bodyedit
{
  "_index": ".apm-agent-configuration",
  "_id": "CIaqXXABmQCdPphWj8EJ",
  "_score": 2,
  "_source": {
    "agent_name": "nodejs",
    "service": {
      "name": "frontend"
    },
    "settings": {
      "transaction_sample_rate": "1",
    },
    "@timestamp": 1582031336265,
    "applied_by_agent": false,
    "etag": "5080ed25785b7b19f32713681e79f46996801a5b"
  }
}
Exampleedit
POST /api/apm/settings/agent-configuration/search
{
    "etag": "1e58c178efeebae15c25c539da740d21dee422fc",
    "service" : {
        "name": "frontend",
        "environment": "production"
    }
}
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