APM Server 8.13.0 Test Plan

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Manual Test Plan

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Testing can be started when the first build candidate (BC) is available in the CFT region.

APM Server test plan:

• https://github.com/elastic/apm-server/pulls?q=label%3A%22test-plan%22+label%3A%22v8.13.0%22+-label%3A%22test-plan-ok%22+

To test from apm-data (https://github.com/elastic/apm-data/commits/main/?since=2023-11-21&until=2024-02-07)

• Added support for receiving inferred span children as OTLP span links. apm-data#185
• Trace sempahore acquire apm-data#190 (non functional change)
• Updated otlp network connection attributes per otel semconv apm-data#196
• remove async arg apm-data#199 (non functional change)
• Detect messaging.{system,operation} in TranslateTransaction apm-data#204

Covered by apm-server PRs labeled for testing:

• Respect data_stream.{dataset,namespace} for OTel logs, metrics, and traces apm-data#201
• Added support for elastic.profiler_stack_trace_ids OTel attribute apm-data#202
• feat: remove async handling code apm-data#197
• feat: map OTEL's span.status: Unset to event.outcome: success apm-data#188
• capture code stacktrace apm-data#184

To test from go-docappender:

• Count documents from requests that time out go-docappender#90 (not enabled)
• feat: add document retries go-docappender#99 (not enabled)
• bulk_indexer: Use "create" constant go-docappender#97 (non functional change)
• feat: add appender config for compression threshold go-docappender#100 (reverted, not applicable)
• feat: return an error when using small flush bytes with compression enabled go-docappender#111 (not applicable, just a config check)

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Regressions

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Everything successfully tested; huge shoutout to @marclop for racing through a big chunk of testing tasks 🚀