APM Server 8.17 test plan

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Manual Test Plan

List of changes: 8.16...8.17

When picking up a test case, please add your name to this overview beforehand and tick the checkbox when finished.
Testing can be started when the first build candidate (BC) is available in the CFT region.

Smoke Testing ESS setup

Thanks to #8303 further smoke tests are run automatically on ESS now.
Consider extending the smoke tests to include more test cases which we'd like to cover

go-docappender library

• fix: filter ES error responses go-docappender#206 [@carsonip ]
• elasticsearch.events.retried: Add retry dimension go-docappender#209 [@1pkg @kruskall ]

apm-data library

apm-data ES plugin

• apm-data plugin: disable date_detection elasticsearch#116995 [@lahsivjar ]
• Add default ILM policies and switch to ILM for apm-data plugin elasticsearch#115687 [@1pkg @simitt]

Test cases from the GitHub board

Add yourself as assignee on the PR before you start testing.

• fix: clear scroll after completing scroll requests #14551 [@endorama ]
• Surface config parsing error under EA managed mode #14574 [@1pkg @rubvs ]
• [updatecli] Update to elastic/beats@2dbb60663c8e #14865 [@carsonip ]

Regressions

[endorama]

✅ for the scroll request fix, I uploaded ~200 source maps, the scroll context after ingesting was 0.

[rubvs]

Left a comment: #14574 (comment)