- 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 an Elastic Cloud cluster to the APM integration
editSwitch an Elastic Cloud cluster to the APM integration
editUpgrade the Elastic Stack
editUse the Elastic Cloud console to upgrade the Elastic Stack to version 8.16.4. See the Elasticsearch Service upgrade guide for details.
Switch to Elastic Agent
editAPM data collection will be interrupted while the migration is in progress. The process of migrating should only take a few minutes.
With a Superuser account, complete the following steps:
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In Kibana, go to the Applications app and click Settings → Schema.
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Click Switch to Elastic Agent. Make a note of the
apm-server.yml
user settings that are incompatible with Elastic Agent. Check the confirmation box and click Switch to Elastic Agent.
Elastic Cloud will now create a Fleet Server instance to contain the new APM integration, and then will shut down the old APM server instance. Within minutes your data should begin appearing in the Applications UI again.
Configure the APM integration
editYou can now update settings that were removed during the upgrade. See Configure APM Server for a reference of all available settings.
In Kibana, navigate to Management > Fleet. Select the Elastic Cloud Agent Policy. Next to the Elastic APM integration, select Actions > Edit integration.
Scale APM and Fleet
editCertain Elasticsearch output configuration options are not available with the APM integration. To ensure data is not lost, you can scale APM and Fleet up and out. APM’s capacity to process events increases with the instance memory size.
Go to the Elastic Cloud console, select your deployment and click Edit. Here you can edit the number and size of each availability zone.
![scale APM](./images/scale-apm.png)
Congratulations -- you now have the latest and greatest in Elastic APM!
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