Understanding APM

We want to expand on APM a little further, as applications (apps) are the gravity center of any system. Traditionally, monitoring always started at the infrastructure stack, while the application was a lesser concern for checking metrics. That changed radically in the last two decades. After the pandemic of 2020, APM is now at the core of the digital transformation that the world is experiencing.

APM is now a synonym for unified or all-in-one monitoring. It’s the culmination of all monitoring types and tools. It offers an end-to-end monitoring capacity with additional automation, alerting, and analytical capabilities.

According to Gartner in their Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability research, they defined APM “as software that enables the observation and analysis of application health, performance and user experience. The targeted roles are IT operations, site reliability engineers, cloud and platform ops, application...