APM Buyer’s Guide

Top APM solutions, compared

Application performance monitoring (APM) means different things to different teams. In general, it typically refers to managing or monitoring the various aspects of your application, such as transaction time, code performance, network performance, and user experience.

This guide is meant to help DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers ( SRE ) teams understand and compare the options in the application performance monitoring (APM) solutions market. We’ll look at why you need an APM solution, consider the components a complete APM solution offers, and then compare in detail three APM solutions offered by : SolarWinds^® , Datadog^® , and Splunk^®.

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