Application and service monitoring

Explore the topics in this section to learn how to observe and monitor software applications and services running in your environment.

Application performance monitoring (APM)	Monitor software services and applications in real time, by collecting detailed performance information on response time for incoming requests, database queries, calls to caches, external HTTP requests, and more.
Synthetic monitoring	Monitor the availability of network endpoints and services.
Real user monitoring	Quantify and analyze the perceived performance of your web application using real-world user experiences.
Uptime monitoring (deprecated)	Periodically check the status of your services and applications.
Tutorial: Monitor a Java application	Monitor a Java application using Elastic Observability: Logs, Infrastructure metrics, APM, and Uptime.