Elastic APM tracking and usage

Elastic APM (Application Performance Monitoring) is a solution designed to help you monitor, visualize, and analyze the performance of your applications in real-time. With Elastic APM, you can easily identify and diagnose performance issues, observe user interactions, and gain insights into application bottlenecks, helping you optimize your application's performance and ensure a good user experience.

Elastic APM supports several programming languages and frameworks, including Java, Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby, and JavaScript/RUM (Real User Monitoring). For each language, dedicated APM agents are available, which can be easily integrated into your application to start monitoring performance.

Elastic APM is designed to be used with the Elasticsearch backend, as it provides powerful search, alerting, and visualization capabilities through Kibana. Using another backend is not officially supported, and while it may be possible, you will likely encounter limitations in terms of features and overall functionality.

Yes, Elastic APM allows you to monitor multiple applications across different environments (such as staging and production) and visualize them all in a single view within Kibana. You can easily filter and organize your data by application, environment, or any custom metadata to quickly identify and resolve issues.

Elastic APM has built-in features to help you protect sensitive data. By default, the APM agent sanitizes and redacts certain sensitive fields, like password and authorization headers, before sending them to the APM Server. Additionally, you can configure the agent to further scrub or exclude specified fields, ensuring that sensitive data is not exposed or stored.