Work with APM Server
Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability This functionality is not available in Elastic Cloud Serverless. The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability 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.
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When self-managing the Elastic Stack, APM Server receives performance data from APM agents, validates and processes it, and transforms the data into Elasticsearch documents.
This section contains information on working with APM Server including:
- Learning how to set up APM Server
- Browsing all available APM Server configuration options
- Monitoring the real-time health and performance of your APM Server
If you're using Elastic Cloud Serverless, there is no APM Server running. Instead managed inputs receive and transform data. Read more in Get started with Elastic APM.
For new users, Elastic recommends using the OpenTelemetry path through Elastic Agent or Managed OTLP rather than sending data directly to the APM Server.