Where the enviroment field is set?

[ElasticLiver (Dense Man)]

Hi, where the enviroment field is set? it is set by the agent? or on the server?

[trentm (Trent Mick)]

Hello. It is set by the agent. E.g. for the Java agent see: Core configuration options | APM Java Agent Reference [1.x] | Elastic

[ElasticLiver (Dense Man)]

Thanks, the documentation says that this field is not dynamic, that means that we have to set the name of the enviroment?

[axw (Andrew Wilkins)]

@ElasticLiver yes, you have to configure the name for each agent, e.g. as an environment variable.

We are also working on making it possible to set this at the APM Server level: Define a default environment to record on agent data · Issue #4664 · elastic/apm-server · GitHub. If all agents reporting to an APM Server are part of the same environment, then you could set the environment once at the APM Server level instead. If you have agents in multiple environments reporting to one APM Server, then you will need to keep setting the environment per agent.