[APM] Synthtrace: Add support for log events #117772
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8.9 candidate
apm:needs-test
apm:synthtrace
APM Synthtrace Topics
Team:APM
All issues that need APM UI Team support
technical debt
Improvement of the software architecture and operational architecture
Context
In elastic/apm-server#6544 @stuartnelson3 was trying to get log events to show up in APM (under the Logs tab). He was initially seeing some problems that could indicate that log correlation wasn't working as it should. Even though the log events eventually showed up in APM, this reminded me that we don't have any automated tests (api or e2e) for this feature.
Suggestion
Synthtrace is right not solely focused on generating APM events. I think this makes sense and Synthtrace should always be an APM-centric data generator. However, I think we should consider adding support for generating non-APM events also.
In this case I think Synthtrace should be able to generate the simplest form of log events that will then be displayed in APM.
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