How to reduce storage?

[AKP (Anil Pesaramelli)]

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Kibana version: 7.9.1

Elasticsearch version: 7.9

APM Server version: 7.9.2

APM Agent language and version: Java

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I am trying to reduce the amount of data that spans are storing. I see a lot of ping and DB level calls in trace.

How can i get rid of them with agent level settings?

[Eyal_Koren]

Hi and welcome to the forum

You can disable JDBC spans entirely by setting disable_instrumentations=jdbc, but this means you won't see and DB calls.

A more subtle reduction of spans can be achieved through the span_min_duration configuration. It looks like even setting it to 5ms will reduce most of the spans.

This is as far as it goes with agent level. If you want even finer grain filtering, you will need to set an ingestion pipeline filter to discard before it gets to the APM server. Alternatively, if your concern is about storage, you can rely on ILM to manage that.

I hope this helps.