Get deep visibility into your cloud-native, GenAI, and distributed applications — from microservices to large language models (LLMs) — and quickly identify and resolve root causes of issues. Seamlessly adopt APM to automatically identify anomalies, map service dependencies, and simplify investigations into outliers and abnormal behavior.

APM, application performance monitoring, is the process for organizations to quickly identify and resolve any performance issues in their application and code. APM solutions collect, monitor, and analyze telemetry data from websites, software applications, and services.

Elastic APM is an application performance monitoring system built on the Elastic Stack. It allows you to monitor software services and applications in real time, by collecting detailed performance information on response time for incoming requests, database queries, calls to caches, external HTTP requests, and more.

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Jul 29, 2020 · Do Elastic APM server and the Java APM agent require a licensed Elasticsearch to run or can it be used without one? I will be using Elastic Stack version 7.7.

Elastic Application Performance Monitoring (APM), an APM tool built on the Elastic Stack and provided as part of Elastic Observability, is designed to monitor software application performance in real time, identifying and diagnosing complex issues.

Apr 6, 2021 · Elastic APM is an application performance monitoring system built on the Elastic Stack. It allows you to monitor software services and applications in real-time, by collecting detailed...

Apr 17, 2025 · In summary, Elastic APM can be very cost-effective, especially if you leverage the free capabilities; just account for the operational cost if self-managing. Source: Grafana 7. Prometheus & Grafana. Prometheus and Grafana together form a popular open-source monitoring stack often used as a DIY APM solution. Prometheus excels at time-series ...

Aug 7, 2023 · Elastic Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a tool that is used to monitor your application built on top of the Elastic Stack. Here are some of its features: Real Time Monitoring – APM collects metrics on the fly, so you can see …

Learn how to use APM in the Observability guide. To view APM documentation for versions before 8.12, go to the APM guide instead.