Explore: How to associate APM tracking with logs

Elastic Observability APM
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I have an idea now, I want to associate APM tracking with its corresponding log, but I don't know if there is any good way, very distressed.

What I am looking for is that when I look at the RPC method of a link trace, I click on it and I can see the corresponding business log information (with trace_id).

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@axw I want to assemble Elastic APM into a full-link system in business. I don't need to manually search for it, but jump or display related information directly, thank you.

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Have you seen the blog post I wrote earlier this year, "How to instrument your Go app with the Elastic APM Go agent"? There is a section about integrating logs: https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-to-instrument-your-go-app-with-the-elastic-apm-go-agent#logs

With APM UI 7.3.0+, you can already link from transactions/traces to logs:

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Clicking "Show trace logs" will take you to the Logs app, filtered to the selected transaction's trace.

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Thanks, I will check it out later.
But we are currently using 6.6.1, it seems that we can't upgrade to 7.3.0 seamlessly?

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Not directly from 6.6.1 to 7.3.0. You would need to upgrade from 6.6.1 to 6.8.0, and then from 6.8.0 to 7.3.2. See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack/current/upgrading-elastic-stack.html

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I am thinking that it will be very troublesome to upgrade the version each time you use a new feature.

In addition, I would like to ask if there is a custom page in es?

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Where can I see the latest plan of APM? Because our company is using it, I feel very good. I also want to write an article to recommend to Go developers in the Chinese community.

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A custom page for what? Logs? If that's what you mean, there is a Logs app: Observability | Kibana Guide [8.11] | Elastic

That would be great!

I assume by "plan" you're referring to our roadmap? We don't have a public roadmap, as it may change. However, you can find many of our planned features at Issues · elastic/apm · GitHub.

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Thanks for your reply, I am testing 7.3.2, but I found that Transactions have no Time spent by span type chart, as follows:

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Which version of the Go agent are you using? This feature was added to the Go agent in v1.5.0.

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I just used version 1.4.0 and it is now resolved after the upgrade.

I feel that the documentation has a weak description of the version declaration, for example: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack/current/apm-highlights.html#_aggregate_service_breakdown_charts, and does not specify the version requirements.

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Thanks for the feedback - I agree, this could be clearer. I'll see if we can get this documented, at least for features we add in the future if not this one.

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emememem...What should I do if I have multiple loggers?

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The call to apm.DefaultTracer.SetLogger is only used for logging what the agent is doing. It's not required for adding trace IDs to logs.

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I have run successfully, thank you very much for your reply, I will consider promoting the upgrade of the new version and the use of log link tracking.

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