Elasticsearch is the perfect repository for your logs, metrics, and application performance monitoring (APM) data. Seeing all of your operational data in one place gives you greater visibility into all aspects of your infrastructure and application ecosystem.

Elastic APM is an open source APM solution, powered by Elasticsearch. Watch this video to get an overview and learn about its latest features, including the new Java agent and distributed tracing. This video includes a demo that shows how to monitor the performance of your Java applications and gain insight into your transactions and potential bottlenecks.

Highlights Include:

• Configuring your Java applications to deliver application performance metrics to the APM Server
• Leveraging advanced APM features with your Java applications
• Monitoring calls from the Java application to external REST services
• End to end monitoring with RUM and distributed tracing

Elastic APM ships with the free, default distribution of Elastic Stack.