A stable platform can be the foundation for successful software products. Learn more about this concept, the hazards that surround it and why it is important to pay attention to it.

The acronym stands for Application Performance Monitoring (and also Application Performance Management, but we will only focus on the first one) and it refers to the monitoring of telemetry data to measure our system’s health, and availability, or even to troubleshoot problems while it is online. APM is a means to increase the observability aspect of our system, allowing us to know about its internal state by reading through its external output.