Application performance monitoring (APM)

CloudWatch Application Signals provides application performance monitoring (APM) features such as pre-built, standardized dashboards for critical application metrics, correlated trace spans, and a service map to enable you to visualize interactions between applications and their dependencies. You can also search and analyze transaction spans and trace summaries to debug distributed application issues in a business context, for cases such as troubleshooting customer support tickets or finding top impacted customers. You can also create Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to closely track the performance KPIs of critical operations in your application, enabling you to easily identify and triage operations that do not meet your business KPIs.

See the following sections for an overview of these troubleshooting capabilities:

Start collecting application metrics and traces

Get the most integrated application performance monitoring experience by auto-instrumenting applications to easily collect telemetry, whether they are running in Amazon EKS clusters, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Kubernetes, Lambda, or on-premise. Optionally, you can also use OpenTelemetry with Application Signals to collect telemetry.