Elastic APM 7.7.0 released with service maps, async profiler, and more

Elastic APM 7.7.0, released on May 13, 2020, introduces several significant enhancements, including service maps, inferred spans with an async profiler, alerting, agent central configuration, and custom links. Service maps provide a high-level, real-time view of Elastic-instrumented services, facilitating impact analysis and troubleshooting by visualizing service connections and dependencies. The inferred spans feature reduces upfront instrumentation efforts by providing granular method-level insights using a low-overhead async profiler, even in production environments. The release also integrates Kibana alerting for easy configuration of threshold alerts for service metrics and introduces agent central configuration within Kibana to simplify agent settings management. Custom links allow users to create dynamic, data-driven links for tasks like integrating with GitHub or Jira, enhancing workflow efficiency. These features are available via the Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud or through the Elastic Stack download.