- Observability: other versions:
- Get started
- What is Elastic Observability?
- What’s new in 8.16
- Quickstart: Monitor hosts with Elastic Agent
- Quickstart: Monitor your Kubernetes cluster with Elastic Agent
- Quickstart: Monitor hosts with OpenTelemetry
- Quickstart: Unified Kubernetes Observability with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT)
- Quickstart: Collect data with AWS Firehose
- Add data from Splunk
- Applications and services
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Get started
- Learn about data types
- Collect application data
- View and analyze data
- Act on data
- Use APM securely
- Manage storage
- Configure APM Server
- Monitor APM Server
- APM APIs
- Troubleshooting
- Upgrade
- Release notes
- Known issues
- 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
- Real user monitoring
- Uptime monitoring (deprecated)
- Tutorial: Monitor a Java application
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Infrastructure and hosts
- Logs
- Troubleshooting
- Incident management
- Data set quality
- Observability AI Assistant
- Reference
Switch a self-installation to the APM integration
editSwitch a self-installation to the APM integration
editUpgrade the Elastic Stack
editThe Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch and Kibana) must be upgraded to version 7.14 or higher. See the Elastic Stack Installation and Upgrade Guide for guidance.
Review the APM release notes, breaking changes, and Observability What’s new content for important changes between your current APM version and this one.
Add a Fleet Server
editFleet Server is a component of the Elastic Stack used to centrally manage Elastic Agents. The APM integration requires a Fleet Server to be running and accessible to your hosts. Add a Fleet Server by following this guide.
If you’re upgrading a self-managed deployment of the Elastic Stack, you’ll need to enable Elasticsearch security and the API key service.
After adding your Fleet Server host and generating a service token, the in-product help in Kibana will provide a command to run to start an Elastic Agent as a Fleet Server. Commands may require administrator privileges.
Verify Fleet Server is running by navigating to Fleet > Agents in Kibana.
Install a Fleet-managed Elastic Agent
editIt’s possible to install the Elastic APM integration on the same Elastic Agent that is running the Fleet Server integration. For this use case, skip this step.
The Fleet-managed Elastic Agent will run the Elastic APM integration on your edge nodes, next to your applications. To install a Fleet-managed Elastic Agent, follow this guide.
Add the APM integration
editThe APM integration receives performance data from your APM agents, validates and processes it, and then transforms the data into Elasticsearch documents.
To add the APM integration, see Step 2: Add and configure the APM integration. Only complete the linked step (not the entire quick start guide). If you’re adding the APM integration to a Fleet-managed Elastic Agent, you can use the default policy. If you’re adding the APM integration to the Fleet Server, use the policy that the Fleet Server is running on.
You’ll configure the APM integration in this step. See Configure APM Server for a reference of all available settings. As long as the APM integration is configured with the same secret token or you have API keys enabled on the same host, no reconfiguration is required in your APM agents.
Stop the APM Server
editOnce data from upgraded APM agents is visible in the Applications UI, it’s safe to stop the APM Server process.
Congratulations — you now have the latest and greatest in Elastic APM!
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