New services experience
editNew services experience
editThis functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
With this technical preview, Elastic expands the Services inventory to include services found in logs. This means you can monitor the services you care about even if you only have logs and aren’t ready to instrument your services.
The new Services inventory shows services instrumented with APM or OpenTelemetry,
plus any services declared using service.name in your logs:
For instrumented services that also have custom logs, the APM and log data are displayed in the same view. For services that only have log data, the log data is displayed, and you have the option of adding APM later.
The new Services inventory requires the Elastic Entity Model (EEM). To learn more, refer to Elastic Entity Model.
The new services experience is turned off by default. To turn it on:
- Go to Observability → APM → Services.
- Click Try out Elastic’s new experience!
If you have the correct privileges, the EEM will be turned on automatically. Otherwise, you need to ask your administrator to turn on this feature under Stack Management.
To turn off the new experience, click Restore classic view. You can switch back and forth between the new and classic views whenever you want.
To add services to the inventory, use one of the following approaches:
- Instrument your services with APM or OpenTelemetry. To learn how, refer to Fleet-managed APM Server.
-
Declare
service.namein your logs. To learn how, Add a service name to logs.