Elastic has released version 1.0 of its APM PHP Agent, which is part of its application performance monitoring solution designed to offer insights into application performance, error tracking, and end-user browser experience. The Apache-licensed agent, developed with community feedback, supports PHP versions 7.2-7.4 on Linux and provides auto-instrumentation for frameworks like Laravel, PHP Data Objects, and HTTP clients such as curl and Guzzle. It includes both a PHP extension and a PHP component, allowing for manual instrumentation and customization through a public API. Installation involves downloading a Linux package from GitHub, with configuration available via php.ini or environment variables, and monitoring data accessible in Kibana. Elastic encourages community feedback and contributions via their discussion forum and GitHub repository as they continue to enhance the agent with features like central configuration support and span type analytics.