Requests to APM Server are sometimes logged by the agent

[watson]

Normally HTTP requests to the APM Server should be ignored by the agent so that it doesn't create spans for the request to the APM Server it sends it self.

But it's seems that sometimes these requests are not ignored: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-exclude-apm-self-sent-events-capturing/160134

[Qard]

I've actually been thinking it might be handy to have a helper function to explicitly escape the transaction continuation when we want to do internal async things. 🤔

Something like this could work:

Agent.prototype.escape = function (fn) {
  var trans = this.currentTransaction
  this.currentTransaction = null
  var result = fn()
  this.currentTransaction = trans
  return result
}

agent.escape(() => {
  // This code will exist outside the transaction
})