APM Server
APM server is written in Go and is freely available with Elastic Stack. APM agent sends data to the APM Server in the form of JSON through the HTTP API. APM server listens on port 8200, which is the default port. Once APM Server receives the data from different APM Agents, it clubs them, using the data, to create documents and push them to Elasticsearch. To build APM Server, Elastic has used the Beats framework; the APM Server also utilizes Beats functionalities.
APM server is a separate component that sits between APM agents and Elasticsearch, unlike Beats, which can directly interact with Elasticsearch. There are many reasons why APM server is important, as it can easily be scaled because typically they are configured on the ...
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