Application Performance Monitoring
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Workshop

During this workshop, we will discover the power of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) with Elastic. We will use the OpenTelemetry demo as the example application. First, we will set up the Kubernetes cluster on Strigo platform and the Elastic deployment on Elastic Cloud. Next, we will configure the OpenTelemetry collector to send its data to Elastic. When the data is in Elastic, we will explore the APM data in Kibana and use it to troubleshoot an issue in the application. Finally, we will set up Synthetic Monitoring to monitor the availability of the demo application.

Application Performance Monitoring with Elastic

Elastic APM is an application performance monitoring system built on top of the Elastic Stack. It allows you to monitor software services and applications in real time, collecting detailed performance information on response time for incoming requests, database queries, calls to caches, external HTTP requests, etc. Elastic APM agents offer rich auto-instrumentation out of the box (e.g., timing DB queries, etc.) for supported frameworks and technologies. You can also use custom instrumentation for custom purposes.

Elastic APM supports distributed tracing and whilst also supporting OpenTelemetry natively. It enables you to analyze performance throughout your microservice architecture all in one view. Elastic APM accomplishes this by tracing all of the requests — from the initial web request to your frontend service to queries made to your backend services. This makes finding possible bottlenecks throughout your application much easier and faster. 

What we will cover during this workshop

Overview of the hands-on labs