Application monitoring exists to prevent software issues from affecting customers. Today most applications are built using microservices to be more scalable, agile, and resilient, but despite their benefits, microservices require management and oversight. With a microservices architecture, each service operates independently from the others. Managing the entire system can be challenging.
Traditional APM tools focus on infrastructure monitoring, application dependencies, business transactions and user experience, and were designed to quickly identify, isolate and solve performance problems.
Observability is the logical evolution from traditional APM to meet the increasingly rapid, distributed and dynamic nature of cloud-native application deployments. Enterprise observability platforms perform a critical function for modern software development.