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Add ENABLED, RECORDING settings

See original GitHub issue

Currently changing the app`s code is the only way to enable/disable automatic creation of transactions/spans.

Other agents have settings for this and the .NET agent should also have these settings.

The two settings:

active
instrument

Definition of instrument: https://github.com/elastic/apm/issues/49

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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gregkalaposcommented, Oct 27, 2020

I looked at other agents’ docs and also asked about this in Slack. So far none of the configs mentioned here is implemented. According to current alignments across agents we’ll add these 2:

enabled : if false, the agent is totally turned off (doesn’t even instrument, no background threads started, basically the agent does not do anything). This can’t be changed, if the agent starts with enabled=false then only chance to turn on the agent is to set it to true AND restart the app.
recording : This is live changeable, and even if it’s false, the agent still listens to central config changes. If it’s false then nothing is collected (no transactions, no errors, not metrics, nothing) - but instrumentation is still in place - it’s just not collecting data.

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basepicommented, Oct 14, 2020

FYI, https://github.com/elastic/apm/issues/49 was closed, so perhaps this can be closed? Or at least amended to only include enabled and recording.