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APM version 8.3

• APM version 8.3.3

• APM version 8.3.2

• APM version 8.3.1

• APM version 8.3.0

APM version 8.3.3

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Bug fixes

• Update APM integration description {pull}8592[8592]

APM version 8.3.2

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Bug fixes

• When tail-based sampling is enabled, limit the local disk space for the feature to 3GB {pull}8407[8407]

APM version 8.3.1

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No significant changes.

APM version 8.3.0

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Breaking Changes

• [experimental] Removed support for experimental firehose endpoint for CloudWatch metric streams {pull}8109[8109]

Deprecations

• span.context.destination.service.resource is deprecated {pull}7925[7925]

Bug fixes

• Propagate datastream namespace changes from apm-integration into server {pull}8176[8176]

• Correct the libbeat.output.write.bytes metric to count the written bytes after the compressed writer has been flushed {pull}8221[8221]

• Allow 100% tail-based sampling {pull}8233[8233]

Intake API Changes

• For OpenTelemetry exception span events, stack traces that cannot be parsed will now be stored in event.stack_trace {pull}7706[7706]

• Support for ingesting service.target.type and service.target.name added to intake API for spans {pull}7870[7870]

• Derive service.target.{type, name} fields for older agents from span.context.destination.service.resource {pull}7925[7925]

• Support service.target.* in metrics aggregation {pull}7924[7924]

Added

• System, process, and well-defined runtime metrics are now sent to the shared metrics-apm.internal-<namespace> data stream {pull}7882[7882]

• Number of parallel bulk requests are now configurable via output.elasticsearch.max_requests {pull}8055[8055]

• OTLP/HTTP protocol is now supported {pull}8156[8156]

Performance improvements

• Limit the number of gomaxprocs when CPU limits have been set within a cgroup, yielding significant performance improvements, particularly when the APM Server experiences high traffic from a high number of APM agents {pull}8175[8175] {pull}8278[8278]