APM server producing errors (mapper_parsing_exception) when traces are sent through jaeger-agent

Kibana version:
7.9.1

Elasticsearch version:
7.9.1

APM Server version:
7.9.1

Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, deb, from source, etc.) and version:
Official docker images

Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior. Please include screenshots (if relevant):

I'm trying to use Elastic APM as backend for distibuted tracing. I am using jaeger-agent to collect traces from laravel app. My previous tracing setup with docker-compose was working flawlessly (jaeger agent + collector + jaeger-queryUi), Now i modified my setup to use APM as a backend by sending traces from my app -> Jaeger-Agent -> APM server via gRPC. I followed this jaeger integration guide https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/server/current/jaeger.html but when i start sending traces i'm geting these errors in APM logs:

2020-09-13T20:07:31.202Z WARN [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:407 Cannot index event publisher.Event{Content:beat.Event{Timestamp:time.Time{wall:0x148af8e0, ext:63735624444, loc:(*time.Location)(nil)}, Meta:{"pipeline":"apm"}, Fields:{"agent":{"name":"Jaeger","version":"unknown"},"ecs":{"version":"1.5.0"},"labels":{"Lounge":"GatewayService-JaegerProvider","peer.ipv4":"172.21.0.3","peer.port":"80","sampler.param":"true","sampler.type":"const"},"observer":{"ephemeral_id":"98acea66-a148-497b-9eaa-c360900a367a","hostname":"ee30089a825b","id":"f9fd9f44-dbc7-4cdd-9403-54576dba007a","type":"apm-server","version":"7.9.1","version_major":7},"processor":{"event":"transaction","name":"transaction"},"service":{"language":{"name":"unknown"},"name":"Gateway-Service"},"timestamp":{"us":1600027644344652},"trace":{"id":"163470aa489b76d9"},"transaction":{"duration":{"us":5532199},"id":"163470aa489b76d9","name":"GET: /csrfd","result":"Success","sampled":true,"type":"fpm"},"url":{"full":"http:///csrfd","original":"/csrfd","path":"/csrfd","scheme":"http"}}, Private:interface {}(nil), TimeSeries:false}, Flags:0x1, Cache:publisher.EventCache{m:common.MapStr(nil)}} (status=400): {"type":"mapper_parsing_exception","reason":"failed to parse","caused_by":{"type":"class_cast_exception","reason":"class org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.ScaledFloatFieldMapper cannot be cast to class org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.ObjectMapper (org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.ScaledFloatFieldMapper is in unnamed module of loader java.net.FactoryURLClassLoader @50a13c2f; org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.ObjectMapper is in unnamed module of loader 'app')"}}

When i switch to jaeger-collector instead of APM - it gets all the tracing correctly.

Here is my docker-compose.yml:

  version: "3"
    services:
      elasticsearch:
        image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.9.1
        networks:
          - author-book-network
        ports:
          - "9200:9200"
          - "9300:9300"
        restart: on-failure
        environment:
          - cluster.name=jaeger-cluster
          - discovery.type=single-node
          - http.host=0.0.0.0
          - transport.host=127.0.0.1
          - ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms1000m -Xmx1000m
          - xpack.security.enabled=false
        volumes:
          - esdata:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data

      kibana:
        image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.9.1
        ports:
          - "5601:5601"
        environment:
          - ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS=http://elasticsearch:9200
          - SERVER_NAME=kibana
          #- ES.TAGS-AS-FIELDS.ALL=true
          #- SERVER_HOST=0.0.0.0
        depends_on:
          - elasticsearch
        networks:
          - author-book-network

      apm-server:
        image: docker.elastic.co/apm/apm-server:7.9.1
        depends_on:
          - elasticsearch
          - kibana
        cap_add: ["CHOWN", "DAC_OVERRIDE", "SETGID", "SETUID"]
        cap_drop: ["ALL"]
        ports:
        - 8200:8200
        networks:
        - author-book-network
        command: >
           apm-server -e
             -E apm-server.jaeger.grpc.enabled=true
             -E apm-server.jaeger.grpc.host=":14250"
             -E apm-server.rum.enabled=true
             -E setup.kibana.host=kibana:5601
             -E setup.template.settings.index.number_of_replicas=0
             -E apm-server.kibana.enabled=true
             -E apm-server.kibana.host=kibana:5601
             -E output.elasticsearch.hosts=["elasticsearch:9200"]
             -E ELASTIC_APM_LOG_FILE=stderr
             -E ELASTIC_APM_LOG_FILE=debug
        # healthcheck:
        #   interval: 10s
        #   retries: 12
        #   test: curl --write-out 'HTTP %{http_code}' --fail --silent --output /dev/null http://localhost:8200/

      # jaeger-collector:
      #   image: jaegertracing/jaeger-collector
      #   ports:
      #     #- "14269:14269"
      #     - "14250:14250"
      #     - "14268:14268"
      #     - "14267:14267"
      #     - "9411:9411"
      #   networks:
      #     - author-book-network
      #   restart: on-failure
      #   environment:
      #     - SPAN_STORAGE_TYPE=elasticsearch
      #   command: [
      #     "--es.server-urls=http://elasticsearch:9200",
      #     "--es.num-shards=1",
      #     "--es.num-replicas=0",
      #     "--log-level=error"
      #   ]
      #   depends_on:
      #     - elasticsearch

      jaeger-agent:
        image: jaegertracing/jaeger-agent
        hostname: jaeger-agent
        #command: ["--reporter.grpc.host-port=jaeger-collector:14250"]
        command: ["--reporter.grpc.host-port=apm-server:14250"]
        ports:
          - "5775:5775/udp"
          - "6831:6831/udp"
          - "6832:6832/udp"
          - "5778:5778"
        networks:
          - author-book-network
        restart: on-failure
        environment:
          - SPAN_STORAGE_TYPE=elasticsearch
        depends_on:
          #- jaeger-collector
          - apm-server

      jaeger-query:
        image: jaegertracing/jaeger-query
        environment:
          - SPAN_STORAGE_TYPE=elasticsearch
          - no_proxy=localhost
        ports:
          - "16686:16686"
          - "16687:16687"
        networks:
          - author-book-network
        restart: on-failure
        command: [
          "--es.server-urls=http://elasticsearch:9200",
          "--span-storage.type=elasticsearch",
          "--log-level=debug"
        ]
        depends_on:
          - jaeger-agent

    volumes:
      esdata:
        driver: local

    networks:
      author-book-network:
        external: true

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Install Elasticsearch, Kibana and APM through docker-compose
  2. Use Jaeger-Agent to send tracing to APM

Welcome to the forum @Amirtheahmed!

Do you have multiple services instrumented? That sort of error would occur when the instrumentation provides two different data types for the same attribute.

If this is the case, then I think the simplest short-term solution would be to split services into multiple indices, to avoid these kinds of mapping conflicts:

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Hi and thanks for your reply,
Yes i have multiple services instrumented and i will look into the solution you provided when dealing with multiple services. But the error log i shared is from single service with a single span trace (gateway-service) as i deliberately turned off all other services for debugging sake yet still class org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.ScaledFloatFieldMapper cannot be cast to class org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.ObjectMapper persists.

Here is the result trace i see when i use pure jaeger-agent -> jaeger-collector -> jaeger-ui (with elasticsearch as storage): Note! It is sending only single span

It looks like you found a bug, sorry to say. I've opened https://github.com/elastic/apm-server/issues/4190 to get this fixed. I made an educated guess that you're using https://github.com/jukylin/jaeger-php; please correct me in the issue if I got that wrong.

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yes am using https://github.com/jukylin/jaeger-php;

Is it fixed now ?

I've merged a fix, which will go into the next release. There should be a 7.9.2 release in the next 1-2 weeks.

If you would like to test it sooner, it's possible but requires building apm-server yourself:

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Thank you very much, i built apm-server myself as you outlined and the errors has gone away.

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Glad to hear it! Thanks for testing and reporting back.

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