Instrumenting your application performance

Logs and metrics provide a good level of visibility into the different components in your environment. Instrumenting application performance, especially for the applications you develop and support, is a great way to bring more data and context in your journey toward end-to-end observability. APM works by collecting traces from when your code executes in real time. This data can be correlated with logs and metrics from your application to help engineers answer a wide range of questions when diagnosing issues.

Traces are collected by running an APM agent as part of your application code. Different APM agents are available for supported languages and frameworks your application is written in. All supported languages and corresponding frameworks can be found in the reference guide:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/index.html

Traces collected from your application are sent to an APM server for processing and enrichment, before...