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title: Service Observability
description: Use Datadog to monitor, troubleshoot, and manage your services
breadcrumbs: Docs > APM > Service Observability
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# Service Observability

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Viewing span and trace data through the lens of your services can ease troubleshooting, prioritize attention, alert to problems, and help you achieve business objectives.

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   alt="Software Catalog" /%}

- [Software Catalog](https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/software_catalog.md)
- [Service Pages](https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/services/service_page.md)
- [Resource Pages](https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/services/resource_page.md)
- [Deployment Tracking](https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/services/deployment_tracking.md)
- [Service Map](https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/services/services_map.md)
- [APM Monitors](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/create/types/apm.md)

## Further reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Learn about Unified Service Tagging and reserved tags](https://docs.datadoghq.com/getting_started/tagging/unified_service_tagging.md)
- [Getting Started with APM Metrics and Traces](https://learn.datadoghq.com/courses/getting-started-apm)