Atatus Application Performance Monitoring (APM) provides real-time visibility into the performance and health of your backend applications, microservices, and background jobs. It continuously measures request latency, throughput, database operations, and external dependencies while capturing code-level exceptions and errors before they impact your users.

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Explore the setup guides and documentation for your application runtime:

What is Atatus APM?

Modern web and enterprise applications rely on complex architectures involving databases, third-party APIs, asynchronous workers, and distributed microservices. When latency spikes or requests fail, identifying the underlying root cause can be challenging.

Atatus APM instruments your application code to automatically trace every request from entry to completion. By correlating application metrics, database queries, external network calls, and exceptions in unified dashboards, Atatus gives you the diagnostic depth needed to optimize performance and prevent downtime.

Key Capabilities

  • Transaction Monitoring & Tracing: Measure end-to-end response times, throughput (requests per minute / RPM), and Apdex satisfaction scores across both HTTP endpoints and background tasks.
  • Database Performance Insights: Identify slow, resource-heavy, or failing database queries across relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
  • External Dependency Tracking: Monitor outbound HTTP/HTTPS, gRPC, and third-party API calls to detect slow network dependencies and unexpected latency in external integrations.
  • Code-Level Error Tracking: Automatically capture unhandled runtime exceptions and HTTP failures (4xx, 5xx) with complete stack traces, environment parameters, and user context.
  • Distributed Tracing: Trace requests across multiple services and microservices to identify bottlenecks in complex, distributed architectures.
  • Deployment Tracking: Measure the performance impact of new software releases and immediately discover regressions in response time or error rates after each deployment.

Supported Platforms

Choose your programming language or framework below to view installation and configuration instructions:

Getting Started with APM

Getting started with Atatus APM requires only a few steps:

  1. Install the Agent: Select your language from the Supported Platforms list and install the agent package or extension.
  2. Configure the License Key: Set your Atatus APM License Key and define a descriptive application name (appName) in the agent configuration.
  3. Restart Your Application: Start or restart your application process or web server (e.g., Apache, NGINX, PHP-FPM, Node process, or application container).
  4. View Metrics in Dashboard: Trigger a few requests in your application. Within seconds, metrics will begin streaming into your Atatus project dashboard.
Tip:

If you do not have an Atatus account yet, sign up for a free trial to obtain your APM license key.

Next Steps

  • Explore the APM Feature Guide for detailed walkthroughs of every dashboard section.