Elastic announced the beta release of the Elastic APM Java agent, which is designed for testing in development environments but not yet ready for production use. This agent is part of Elastic's Application Performance Monitoring solution, offering insights into application performance and error tracking, with additional agents available for various other programming languages. The Java agent supports Spring Boot applications and a range of application servers, providing auto instrumentation without code changes while allowing for programmatic customization and integration with OpenTracing. It efficiently records and transmits HTTP traffic and JDBC queries to an APM server, with minimal overhead, for visualization in the APM UI of Kibana. Elastic is working on adding distributed tracing capabilities and expanding support for more frameworks, inviting user feedback and contributions to the project.