How to deactivate the APM agent remotely (ex stop APM monitoring on an application remotely)?

Elastic Observability APM
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Hi
I have a few question about APM:
Q1) How to deactivate the APM agent remotely (ex stop APM monitoring on an application remotely)?
Q2) Is there a way to set secured access (RBAC & segregated access) on APM resources such as

  • APM indices (read),
  • APM service(s)
    Customer is saying that “space” utilisation in kibana is not able to segregate finely access to apm ressources. It is access to all “APM & User experience features”
    Q3) Is there any indication on the APM footprint (CPU, memory) on targeted servers / instances? I presume on the APM transactions...
    Please advise, Thanks
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Hi @Reza_Khodabaccus ,

  1. Yes, through Central configuration, you should set the recording option (I assumed you are using the Java agent).

  2. I really don't know here

  3. The agent is designed for minimal impact, but it can't be really estimated beforehand as it's very application and load-specific. Here is the official documentation for details on agent performance and tuning. Default configuration should only be modified when abnormal overhead is observed when the agent is active.

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You can definitely do question 2 with RBAC - User authorization | Elasticsearch Guide [7.15] | Elastic

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