[meta] APM Server managed by Elastic Agent with Fleet (GA)

[simitt]

This meta issue collects work required to make APM Server managed by Elastic Agent with Fleet generally available.

>= 8.0

• Create data stream specific pipelines Create data stream specific pipelines #6001
• Ensure APM Server has enough privileges for tail based sampling [tail sampling] make sure apm-server has enough privileges for tail-based sampling #5490
• Drop privileges when managed by Elastic Agent [Elastic Agent] Drop privileges when managed by Elastic Agent #4571 Moved to after GA.
• Configurable throughput settings Support customization of throughput relevant settings in APM integration beats#26638
• Investigate support for spooling to disk Support spooling to disk #5441 Not that high priority given the new APM output handling
• Java agent auto-attachment [meta] [fleet] Java agent auto attaching #4830 (work on APM Server side is done)

7.16

• Add message field to error docs Add message field to error docs #5971
• [stretch goal] Java agent auto-attachment [meta] [fleet] Java agent auto attaching #4830
• Make use of component templates in APM and restrict dynamic indexing Define component templates for APM #5707
• Align package version with Stack version Align package version with Stack version #4898

7.15

• Reload configs without restart Introduce support for hot-reloading config without restarting #5039

Stretch

• Supporte multiple fleet-server addresses [sourcemaps] support multiple fleet addresses #5514

7.14

• Meta issue collecting required steps for 7.14 [meta] Elastic Agent APM Integration with Fleet [7.14] #5388

7.13

Kibana - Stack Monitoring

• Same level of insights needs to be provided to users [APM][Stack Monitoring] Changes for integrating APM with Elastic Agent kibana#90157
• changes in Elastic Agent to expose metrics

7.12

• Meta issue collecting required steps for 7.12.

[axw]

I've moved the "Manage java agent" issue under "Nice to have". That's a new feature, so doesn't need to be in for GA.

[simitt]

Closing this as all the required work on the APM Server side for going GA and upgrading to 8.0 has been done. Single bugs (e.g. stack monitoring issues) are tracked separately.