Elastic has announced the general availability of its Elastic APM Java Agent, following a successful beta phase. This Java Agent, requiring APM Server 6.5, is part of Elastic's Application Performance Monitoring solutions, which provide insights into application performance and error tracking. The agent offers features such as automatic instrumentation for supported frameworks like Spring MVC/Spring Boot, visibility into web requests, data store interactions, and networking, as well as distributed tracing capabilities for multi-service environments. Users can customize their monitoring using the provided API, enabling tracing of specific methods and error tracking. Additionally, the agent supports integration with the OpenTracing API, allowing for seamless combination of automatic and manual instrumentation. Elastic plans to enhance future integrations with reactive frameworks and improve the integration of logs, metrics, and traces. Feedback from users is encouraged through a survey and the Discuss forum.