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APM agent log sending

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APM agent log sending

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Elastic APM agents can automatically capture and send logs directly to APM Server—enabling you to easily ingest log events without needing a separate log shipper like Filebeat.

Requirements

The Elastic APM agent for your programming language.

Pros

Simple to set up as it only relies on the APM agent
No modification of the application required
No need to deploy Filebeat
No need to store log files in the file system.

Cons

Experimental feature
Limited APM agent support
Not resilient to outages: Log messages can be dropped when buffered in the agent or in APM Server

Supported APM agents/languages

Java

Get started

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See the Java agent documentation to get started.

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