Company
Date Published
Author
Bryce Buchanan
Word count
660
Language
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Summary

The Elastic APM iOS agent has been released as a technical preview by Elastic to gather community feedback and provide initial functionality within the Elastic Observability stack, though it is not yet intended for production use. This agent is built on the opentelementry-swift SDK, allowing it to capture frameworks and libraries instrumented with Open Telemetry, and it provides auto-instrumentation for aspects like URLSession, CPU and memory usage, and network connectivity. Offered through the Swift Package Manager, the agent requires Swift v5.3 and iOS v11, supporting on-prem or cloud solutions with a slim API for configuration. Elastic hopes to engage the community for future development and improvements by encouraging participation through their discussion forum and GitHub repository.