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Elastic APM Python Agent deprecations

Serverless Observability

Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Stack

The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

APM Agent Python

The Elastic APM Python agent enables you to trace the execution of operations in your Python applications, sending performance metrics and errors to the Elastic APM Server.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

Review the deprecated functionality for your Elastic APM Python Agent version. While deprecations have no immediate impact, we strongly encourage you update your implementation after you upgrade.

Release date: July 30, 2024

  • Python 3.6 support will be removed in version 7.0.0 of the agent.
  • The log shipping LoggingHandler will be removed in version 7.0.0 of the agent.
  • The log shipping feature in the Flask instrumentation will be removed in version 7.0.0 of the agent.
  • The log shipping feature in the Django instrumentation will be removed in version 7.0.0 of the agent.
  • The OpenTracing bridge will be removed in version 7.0.0 of the agent.
  • Celery 4.0 support is deprecated because it’s not installable anymore with a modern pip.

Release date: January 10, 2024

The log shipping LoggingHandler will be removed in version 7.0.0 of the agent.

Release date: October 11, 2023

The log shipping feature in the Flask instrumentation will be removed in version 7.0.0 of the agent.