# About the APM category

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-apm-category/97348>\
**Category:** APM\
**Created:** [August 17, 2017, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-apm-category/97348 "2017-08-17T06:43:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-apm-category/97348/1 "2017-08-17T06:43:53Z")

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## Open source application performance monitoring

Already housing logs and system metrics in Elasticsearch? Expand to application metrics with free and open Elastic APM. See exactly where your application is spending time so you can quickly fix issues and feel good about the code you push.

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**Author:** ![vanjacosic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vanjacosic/32/21255_2.png) [@vanjacosic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vanjacosic)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-apm-category/97348/2 "2017-08-17T11:50:04Z")

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 4:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-apm-category/97348/3 "2022-11-04T04:55:53Z")

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