APM agent log sending

Elastic Stack Serverless

Elastic APM agents can automatically capture and send logs directly to the managed intake service — enabling you to easily ingest log events without needing a separate log shipper like Filebeat or Elastic Agent.

Supported APM agents/languages

• Java

Requirements

The Elastic APM agent for Java.

Pros

• Simple to set up as it only relies on the APM agent.
• No modification of the application required.
• No need to deploy Filebeat.
• No need to store log files in the file system.

Cons

• Experimental feature.
• Limited APM agent support.
• Not resilient to outages. Log messages can be dropped when buffered in the agent or in the managed intake service.

See the Java agent documentation to get started.