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APM settings in Kibanaedit

These settings allow the APM app to function, and specify the data that it surfaces. Unless you’ve customized your setup, you do not need to configure any settings to use the APM app. It is enabled by default.

APM indicesedit

The APM app uses data views to query APM indices. To change the default APM indices that the APM app queries, open the APM app and select Settings > Indices. Index settings in the APM app take precedence over those set in kibana.yml.

Starting in version 8.2.0, APM indices are Kibana Spaces-aware; Changes to APM index settings will only apply to the currently enabled space. See Control access to APM data for more information.

APM app settings in Kibana

General APM settingsedit

If you’d like to change any of the default values, copy and paste the relevant settings into your kibana.yml configuration file. Changing these settings may disable features of the APM App.

More settings are available in the Observability advanced settings.

xpack.apm.maxSuggestions logo cloud
Maximum number of suggestions fetched in autocomplete selection boxes. Defaults to 100.
xpack.apm.serviceMapFingerprintBucketSize logo cloud
Maximum number of unique transaction combinations sampled for generating service map focused on a specific service. Defaults to 100.
xpack.apm.serviceMapFingerprintGlobalBucketSize logo cloud
Maximum number of unique transaction combinations sampled for generating the global service map. Defaults to 100.
xpack.apm.serviceMapEnabled logo cloud
Set to false to disable service maps. Defaults to true.
xpack.apm.serviceMapTraceIdBucketSize logo cloud
Maximum number of trace IDs sampled for generating service map focused on a specific service. Defaults to 65.
xpack.apm.serviceMapTraceIdGlobalBucketSize logo cloud
Maximum number of trace IDs sampled for generating the global service map. Defaults to 6.
xpack.apm.serviceMapMaxTracesPerRequest logo cloud
Maximum number of traces per request for generating the global service map. Defaults to 50.
xpack.apm.ui.enabled logo cloud
Set to false to hide the APM app from the main menu. Defaults to true.
xpack.apm.ui.maxTraceItems logo cloud
Maximum number of child items displayed when viewing trace details. Defaults to 5000.
xpack.observability.annotations.index logo cloud
Index name where Observability annotations are stored. Defaults to observability-annotations.
xpack.apm.metricsInterval logo cloud
Sets a fixed_interval for date histograms in metrics aggregations. Defaults to 30.
xpack.apm.agent.migrations.enabled logo cloud
Set to false to disable cloud APM migrations. Defaults to true.
xpack.apm.indices.error logo cloud
Matcher for all error indices. Defaults to logs-apm*,apm-*.
xpack.apm.indices.onboarding logo cloud
Matcher for all onboarding indices. Defaults to apm-*.
xpack.apm.indices.span logo cloud
Matcher for all span indices. Defaults to traces-apm*,apm-*.
xpack.apm.indices.transaction logo cloud
Matcher for all transaction indices. Defaults to traces-apm*,apm-*.
xpack.apm.indices.metric logo cloud
Matcher for all metrics indices. Defaults to metrics-apm*,apm-*.
xpack.apm.indices.sourcemap logo cloud
Matcher for all source map indices. Defaults to apm-*.
xpack.apm.autoCreateApmDataView logo cloud
Set to false to disable the automatic creation of the APM data view when the APM app is opened. Defaults to true.
xpack.apm.latestAgentVersionsUrl logo cloud
Specifies the URL of a self hosted file that contains latest agent versions. Defaults to https://apm-agent-versions.elastic.co/versions.json. Set to '' to disable requesting latest agent versions.
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