Kostiantyn Masliuk

Validated as a part of https://github.com/elastic/apm-server/issues/13604

I'd like to try to implement this change to `mdatagen`. It seems this can be potentially achieved by wrapping the meter provider internally and leveraging custom [View](https://pkg.go.dev/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric#View) overrides.

resolved in https://github.com/elastic/apm-server/pull/15338

@pierrehilbert I followed the steps you shared to use the independent agent release binaries, and it seems to work as expected for the default agent policy for the agent hosted...

@pierrehilbert thank you for providing a link to past releases for this build. With these assets I was able to validate that APM Server runs as expected and our smoke...

> the only doubt I have is on the CI part, not sure how to test it Github Actions are problematic to test. AFAIK, the simplest way to test them...

Had to make some final changes to address some regression in shared modules for smoke-tests. Now everything works as expected and aligned with the smoke tests results from the main...

> Is this automation creating cloud resources but not deleting them? I see some leftovers in > > > that's the AWS account used for the CI - we separated...

Final results after feedback from @v1v to properly set github access token. The PGO standalone benchmark workflow run [link](https://github.com/elastic/apm-server/actions/runs/11134770091/job/30943589134) -> resulted in the next PGO update PR [link](https://github.com/elastic/apm-server/pull/14229). While the...

While testing the changes manually, I discovered a bug in EA tracing sampling changes where `sampling_rate` is formatted as a binary (hex) with exponent instead of decimal literal without exponent,...