What Is APM?
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is the practice of continuously tracking, measuring, and analyzing the performance of applications — from user interactions to back-end infrastructure. Modern APM goes beyond simple uptime checks, providing deep visibility into code execution, network paths, and dependencies across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
What Information Does APM Provide?
APM delivers the insights IT and DevOps teams need to keep applications fast, reliable, and resilient — across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. It runs continuously with minimal overhead, giving you full visibility from the user’s click to the back-end service call.
Here’s what you get:
- Application Performance Diagnostics: Trace every user’s transaction end-to-end, from front-end to back-end, and quickly spot slow code, database queries, or web service calls. Distributed tracing maps app dependencies so you can isolate issues and resolve them before users feel the impact.
- Infrastructure Visibility: Monitor dynamic infrastructure in real time and understand how infrastructure health affects application performance (and vice versa). Get a complete picture across servers, containers, networks, and cloud services to prevent small issues from becoming outages.
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How APM Helps Monitor and Troubleshoot Applications
A comprehensive APM solution keeps applications healthy, users productive, and IT teams focused on strategic priorities, not firefighting. Riverbed APM helps you:
