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Elastic APM

Elastic APM traces requests through distributed systems as part of the Elastic Stack.

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Our verdict

Who it's for

Application performance monitoring for Elastic Stack

Who should look elsewhere

Resource intensive

Pros

  • +Part of Elastic Stack
  • +Good tracing
  • +Many agents
  • +Correlate with logs
  • +Self-hostable

Cons

  • −Resource intensive
  • −License concerns (SSPL)
  • −Complex setup
  • −Learning curve
  • −Can be expensive

Key features

  • ✓APM
  • ✓Distributed tracing
  • ✓Real user monitoring
  • ✓Elastic Stack
  • ✓Multi-language
  • ✓Open source

Pricing

PlanPriceBillingNotes
Free$0monthAPM; Distributed tracing; All features
Cloud Standard$95monthManaged hosting; Auto-scaling; Support

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