APM Server has been the de facto service for ingesting data from Elastic APM agents and OTel agents. In this blog post, we will walk through our journey of redesigning the APM Server product to scale and evolve into a more generic ingest component for Elastic Observability while also improving the reliability and maintainability compared to the traditional APM Server.

APM Server primer

APM Server as a managed product

Multi Tenant APM Server

Break down the monolith

Ingestion Service

Aggregation Service

Index Service

Glue it back together!

Using Kafka

Observing the system

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Ingesting data with Managed Intake Service

Architecting the next-generation of Managed Intake Service

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Vishal Raj

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Architecting the next-generation of Managed Intake Service