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APM Server version 7.8 | APM Server Reference [7.15] | Elastic
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APM Server version 7.8edit

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APM Server version 7.8.1edit

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No significant changes.

APM Server version 7.8.0edit

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Bug fixesedit

  • Ensure applied flag can be set for agent configurations fetched for Jaeger 3677.
  • Negative transaction and span durations now cause a schema validation error 3721.

Intake API Changesedit

  • Add span child_ids intake 3679.
  • Add cloud metadata intake 3729.

Addededit

  • RUM V3 endpoint 3328, 3414, 3512, 3526, 3616, 3648, 3659, 3733.
  • Publish libbeat metrics through the /debug/vars endpoint 3550.
  • Introduce transaction.duration.histogram aggregation 3651.
  • Introduce config to drop unsampled transactions 3702.
  • Add logging.ecs to add minimal required ECS logging fields to log lines 3749.
  • Upgrade Go to 1.13.10 3834.
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