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Elastic Docs ›Elastic Observability [8.17] ›Application and service monitoring ›Application performance monitoring (APM) ›Release notes

APM version 8.12

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APM version 8.12

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APM version 8.12.2

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Bug fixes

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  • Tail-based sampling: do not stop sampling processor when failing to delete trace events 12509
  • Define value for all constant_keyword fields in apmpackage to fix integration upgrade issues in rare cases 12219

APM version 8.12.1

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Bug fixes

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  • Tail-based sampling: Fix missing entry TTL in badger.ErrTxnTooBig handling 12453
  • Tail-based sampling: Compute entry size before writing and flush to avoid losing events silently due to storage limit 12120
  • APM instrumentation: Use UpDownCounter for docsActive and availableBulkIndexer 12179
  • Remove field preview in error reason returned by Elasticsearch from logs. Please see our security advisory for more details. 12179

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  • Disable default instrumentation metrics sending to batch processor by removing local exporter 12228
  • Log a single consolidated line per unique error instead of per each failed document 12179

APM version 8.12.0

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Breaking Changes

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  • The unsupported apm_data_stream_migration ingest pipeline has been removed 12102.
  • "publish_ready" is always false in the "GET /" response until events are received by apm-server 12150
  • Reverts a breaking change that ignored the beat name. This is visible in Stack Monitoring 12176
  • A bug has been introduced, so that traces-apm@custom ingest pipeline is now additionally applied to data streams traces-apm.sampled-* and traces-apm.rum-* and applied twice for traces-apm-*. See more details and information around a fix in the Known Issues section.

Bug fixes

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  • Switch built-in ILM rollover policies from max_size to max_primary_shard_size 11729.
  • Handle empty request bodies gracefully 12242.
  • Wrap processor errors to provide more details 12242.
  • Require only one of exception.{type,message} for log exceptions 12242.

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  • Update container base image to Ubuntu 22.04 11778
  • Add support for returning partial success response in OTLP input 11883
  • Setting event timestamp from OTel observed timestamp when needed 11935
  • Field mappings have been added for various formerly unindexed fields 12102
  • We now assert that index templates are installed by attempting to create data streams 12150
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