APM Integration Check Not Compatible With Elastic APM Data Option about apm-server

[simitt]

Thanks for reporting. The flag xpack.apm_data.enabled: true is not yet enabled by default, nor officially supported, in apm-server as there is additional work required in the server before we can switch over to using the apm plugin in Elasticsearch.
We are eager to driving this work forward in the near future, but cannot yet commit to a timeline.

[Evesy]

Thanks for the response @simitt

I had arrived at xpack.apm_data.enabled following from elastic/elasticsearch#97546 to allow running APM server without needing to use Fleet etc (Since in 8.x APM server does not manage its own templates)

Have I confused these two things as being the same and they are in fact solving different problems, or are they both linked and the support for it to work isn't quite there yet?

[simitt]

Enabling xpack.apm_data.enabled is indeed the future path for not relying on Fleet for the template + ingest pipeline setup. We just need to ensure that nothing breaks and everything is aligned and working as expected before we can switch this on by default and not rely on Fleet anymore. Not quite there yet, but it does have priority for us to drive this forward.