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Review on Elastic APM by Jon Garcia

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Elastic APM is great tool for monitoring and troubleshooting web application performance

The UI of elastic apm makes it easy to understand what exactly our app does, how well we are doing in terms of user experience etc., It also gives us insights into problems faced by users which helps me take corrective action quickly if required. I like that its simple enough even as newbie i can use without much hassle or learning curve involved! No major dislike so far but yes there could be some improvement when you have lot's of logs coming from your server side code base (which sometimes goes above 10k). We had issues with slow response time while loading pages due to high number of requests made through API calls at once. Also this was not visible till we used ELK stack log aggregation solution provided by op beat.

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Pros
  • User friendly interface
  • Highly configurable(you get lots freedom)
  • Not expensive compared other solutions available outthere for monitoring.
  • Detailed reports about request latency
  • Easy debugging via logging system built over Apache Http Client library called "Logstash"
Cons
  • Slow performance is obvious especially during startup phase
  • Requests being logged multiple times under same context