[7.x] Prepare APM agent configuration for production use (#78697) (#7…

…9569)

Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <[email protected]>

packages/kbn-apm-config-loader/src/config.test.ts

@@ -42,12 +42,13 @@ describe('ApmConfiguration', () => {
     resetAllMocks();
   });
 
-  it('sets the correct service name', () => {
+  it('sets the correct service name and version', () => {
     packageMock.raw = {
       version: '9.2.1',
     };
     const config = new ApmConfiguration(mockedRootDir, {}, false);
-    expect(config.getConfig('myservice').serviceName).toBe('myservice-9_2_1');
+    expect(config.getConfig('myservice').serviceName).toBe('myservice');
+    expect(config.getConfig('myservice').serviceVersion).toBe('9.2.1');
   });
 
   it('sets the git revision from `git rev-parse` command in non distribution mode', () => {

packages/kbn-apm-config-loader/src/config.ts

@@ -30,8 +30,15 @@ const getDefaultConfig = (isDistributable: boolean): ApmAgentConfig => {
     return {
       active: false,
       globalLabels: {},
+      // Do not use a centralized controlled config
+      centralConfig: false,
+      // Capture all exceptions that are not caught
+      logUncaughtExceptions: true,
+      // Can be performance intensive, disabling by default
+      breakdownMetrics: false,
     };
   }
+
   return {
     active: false,
     serverUrl: 'https://f1542b814f674090afd914960583265f.apm.us-central1.gcp.cloud.es.io:443',
@@ -60,14 +67,14 @@ export class ApmConfiguration {
   ) {
     // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
     const { version, build } = require(join(this.rootDir, 'package.json'));
-    this.kibanaVersion = version.replace(/\./g, '_');
+    this.kibanaVersion = version;
     this.pkgBuild = build;
   }
 
   public getConfig(serviceName: string): ApmAgentConfig {
     return {
       ...this.getBaseConfig(),
-      serviceName: `${serviceName}-${this.kibanaVersion}`,
+      serviceName,
     };
   }
 
@@ -76,7 +83,8 @@ export class ApmConfiguration {
       const apmConfig = merge(
         getDefaultConfig(this.isDistributable),
         this.getConfigFromKibanaConfig(),
-        this.getDevConfig()
+        this.getDevConfig(),
+        this.getDistConfig()
       );
 
       const rev = this.getGitRev();
@@ -88,6 +96,8 @@ export class ApmConfiguration {
       if (uuid) {
         apmConfig.globalLabels.kibana_uuid = uuid;
       }
+
+      apmConfig.serviceVersion = this.kibanaVersion;
       this.baseConfig = apmConfig;
     }
 
@@ -123,6 +133,19 @@ export class ApmConfiguration {
     }
   }
 
+  /** Config keys that cannot be overridden in production builds */
+  private getDistConfig(): ApmAgentConfig {
+    if (!this.isDistributable) {
+      return {};
+    }
+
+    return {
+      // Headers & body may contain sensitive info
+      captureHeaders: false,
+      captureBody: 'off',
+    };
+  }
+
   private getGitRev() {
     if (this.isDistributable) {
       return this.pkgBuild.sha;

src/apm.js

@@ -36,7 +36,22 @@ module.exports = function (serviceName = name) {
 
   apmConfig = loadConfiguration(process.argv, ROOT_DIR, isKibanaDistributable);
   const conf = apmConfig.getConfig(serviceName);
-  require('elastic-apm-node').start(conf);
+  const apm = require('elastic-apm-node');
+
+  // Filter out all user PII
+  apm.addFilter((payload) => {
+    try {
+      if (payload.context && payload.context.user && typeof payload.context.user === 'object') {
+        Object.keys(payload.context.user).forEach((key) => {
+          payload.context.user[key] = '[REDACTED]';
+        });
+      }
+    } finally {
+      return payload;
+    }
+  });
+
+  apm.start(conf);
 };
 
 module.exports.getConfig = (serviceName) => {
@@ -50,4 +65,3 @@ module.exports.getConfig = (serviceName) => {
   }
   return {};
 };
-module.exports.isKibanaDistributable = isKibanaDistributable;

src/cli/cluster/cluster_manager.ts

@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ export class ClusterManager {
         type: 'server',
         log: this.log,
         argv: serverArgv,
+        apmServiceName: 'kibana',
       })),
     ];
 

src/cli/cluster/worker.ts

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ interface WorkerOptions {
   title?: string;
   watch?: boolean;
   baseArgv?: string[];
+  apmServiceName?: string;
 }
 
 export class Worker extends EventEmitter {
@@ -89,6 +90,7 @@ export class Worker extends EventEmitter {
       NODE_OPTIONS: process.env.NODE_OPTIONS || '',
       kbnWorkerType: this.type,
       kbnWorkerArgv: JSON.stringify([...(opts.baseArgv || baseArgv), ...(opts.argv || [])]),
+      ELASTIC_APM_SERVICE_NAME: opts.apmServiceName || '',
     };
   }
 

src/cli/dev.js

@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@
  * under the License.
  */
 
-require('../apm')(process.env.ELASTIC_APM_PROXY_SERVICE_NAME || 'kibana-proxy');
+require('../apm')(process.env.ELASTIC_APM_SERVICE_NAME || 'kibana-proxy');
 require('../setup_node_env');
 require('./cli');

src/core/public/apm_system.ts

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import type { InternalApplicationStart } from './application';
 
 interface ApmConfig {
   // AgentConfigOptions is not exported from @elastic/apm-rum
+  active?: boolean;
   globalLabels?: Record<string, string>;
 }
 
@@ -39,10 +40,10 @@ export class ApmSystem {
   private readonly enabled: boolean;
   /**
    * `apmConfig` would be populated with relevant APM RUM agent
-   * configuration if server is started with `ELASTIC_APM_ACTIVE=true`
+   * configuration if server is started with elastic.apm.* config.
    */
   constructor(private readonly apmConfig?: ApmConfig) {
-    this.enabled = process.env.IS_KIBANA_DISTRIBUTABLE !== 'true' && apmConfig != null;
+    this.enabled = apmConfig != null && !!apmConfig.active;
   }
 
   async setup() {

src/legacy/server/config/schema.js

@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ const HANDLED_IN_NEW_PLATFORM = Joi.any().description(
 );
 export default () =>
   Joi.object({
+    elastic: Joi.object({
+      apm: HANDLED_IN_NEW_PLATFORM,
+    }).default(),
+
     pkg: Joi.object({
       version: Joi.string().default(Joi.ref('$version')),
       branch: Joi.string().default(Joi.ref('$branch')),

src/legacy/ui/apm/index.js

@@ -17,30 +17,20 @@
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import { getConfig, isKibanaDistributable } from '../../../apm';
+import { getConfig } from '../../../apm';
 import agent from 'elastic-apm-node';
 
-const apmEnabled = !isKibanaDistributable && process.env.ELASTIC_APM_ACTIVE === 'true';
-
-export function apmImport() {
-  return apmEnabled ? 'import { init } from "@elastic/apm-rum"' : '';
-}
-
-export function apmInit(config) {
-  return apmEnabled ? `init(${config})` : '';
-}
+const apmEnabled = getConfig()?.active;
 
 export function getApmConfig(requestPath) {
   if (!apmEnabled) {
     return null;
   }
   const config = {
     ...getConfig('kibana-frontend'),
-    ...{
-      active: true,
-      pageLoadTransactionName: requestPath,
-    },
+    pageLoadTransactionName: requestPath,
   };
+
   /**
    * Get current active backend transaction to make distrubuted tracing
    * work for rendering the app