Directory Observability & MonitoringAPM & Distributed TracingElastic APM

Elastic APM

About Elastic APM

Elastic APM is application performance monitoring software that auto-instruments applications, visualizes and correlates dependencies, and identifies root causes at the code level.

Key Capabilities

✓OpenTelemetry-native auto-instrumentation
✓AI-assisted root cause analysis
✓Distributed tracing with head- and tail-based sampling
✓Service dependency mapping and anomaly detection
✓Broad language and framework support

Integrations

OpenTelemetry collectors

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Quick Facts

www.elastic.co/observability/application-performance-monitoring

CategoryObservability & Monitoring

SubcategoryAPM & Distributed Tracing

PricingSubscription

DeploymentSaaS

Target SizeEnterprise

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