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Huge Traces configuration options

Setting this option to true will enable span compression feature. Span compression reduces the collection, processing, and storage overhead, and removes clutter from the UI. The tradeoff is that some information such as DB statements of all the compressed spans will not be collected.

dynamic config

Default Type Dynamic
true Boolean true
Java System Properties Property file Environment
elastic.apm.span_compression_enabled span_compression_enabled ELASTIC_APM_SPAN_COMPRESSION_ENABLED

Consecutive spans that are exact match and that are under this threshold will be compressed into a single composite span. This option does not apply to composite spans. This reduces the collection, processing, and storage overhead, and removes clutter from the UI. The tradeoff is that the DB statements of all the compressed spans will not be collected.

dynamic config

Supports the duration suffixes ms, s and m. Example: 50ms.

Default Type Dynamic
50ms TimeDuration true
Java System Properties Property file Environment
elastic.apm.span_compression_exact_match_max_duration span_compression_exact_match_max_duration ELASTIC_APM_SPAN_COMPRESSION_EXACT_MATCH_MAX_DURATION

Consecutive spans to the same destination that are under this threshold will be compressed into a single composite span. This option does not apply to composite spans. This reduces the collection, processing, and storage overhead, and removes clutter from the UI. The tradeoff is that the DB statements of all the compressed spans will not be collected.

dynamic config

Supports the duration suffixes ms, s and m. Example: 0ms.

Default Type Dynamic
0ms TimeDuration true
Java System Properties Property file Environment
elastic.apm.span_compression_same_kind_max_duration span_compression_same_kind_max_duration ELASTIC_APM_SPAN_COMPRESSION_SAME_KIND_MAX_DURATION

Exit spans are spans that represent a call to an external service, like a database. If such calls are very short, they are usually not relevant and can be ignored.

Note

If a span propagates distributed tracing ids, it will not be ignored, even if it is shorter than the configured threshold. This is to ensure that no broken traces are recorded.

dynamic config

Supports the duration suffixes us, ms, s and m. Example: 0ms.

Default Type Dynamic
0ms TimeDuration true
Java System Properties Property file Environment
elastic.apm.exit_span_min_duration exit_span_min_duration ELASTIC_APM_EXIT_SPAN_MIN_DURATION