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Elastic Application Performance Monitoring - resources and general issue tracking for Elastic APM.
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Implement device identifier mapping #666

Open AlexanderWert opened 2 years ago

AlexanderWert commented 2 years ago

On iOS and Android only a device model identifier that is not a good display name for device models. A device model identifier can be mapped to corresponding device manufacturer names and device model names using official mapping tables:

This mapping needs to be done on the backend side (because otherwise mobile agent users would need to update their apps with new agent versions with each appearance of a new device on the market, which is not feasible).

One way to solve this is through a dedicated Elasticsearch ingest node processor: