Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM or tracing) provides you with deep insight into your application’s performance - from automatically generated dashboards for monitoring key metrics, like request volume and latency, to detailed traces of individual requests - side by side with your logs and infrastructure monitoring. When a request is made to an application, Datadog can see the traces across a distributed system, and we can show you systematic data about precisely what is happening to this request.
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