# What does Impact mean in APM Transactions on Kibana? **URL:** \ **Category:** APM\ **Tags:** ui\ **Created:** [August 23, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-impact-mean-in-apm-transactions-on-kibana/196470 "2019-08-23T08:20:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yashshanker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58956e/32.png) [@yashshanker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yashshanker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-impact-mean-in-apm-transactions-on-kibana/196470/1 "2019-08-23T08:20:53Z")
I was looking at the Kibana dashboard for APM for one of my services, and in the **Transactions** tab, I came across a column named " **Impact**". Can anyone tell me, what does **Impact** means in this context ? Like, impact on what, on my server or on my application or on something else? Please find below the details of my setup and the screenshot. **Kibana version** : 6.8.2 **Elasticsearch version** : 6.8.2 **APM Server version** : 6.8.2 **APM Agent language and version** : Java 1.5.0 **Browser version** : Google Chrome 71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (64-bit) **Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, deb, from source, etc.) and version**: deb **Fresh install or upgraded from other version?** Fresh Install ![Screenshot%20from%202019-08-23%2013-49-41](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/7/47f431376a6014cd48183b4e8459d413d774cad8.png) ---
**Author:** ![felixbarny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/felixbarny/32/27341_2.png) [@felixbarny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/felixbarny)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-impact-mean-in-apm-transactions-on-kibana/196470/2 "2019-08-23T08:35:17Z")
It’s basically the relative Avg. duration \* transactions per minute ---
**Author:** ![yashshanker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58956e/32.png) [@yashshanker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yashshanker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 9:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-impact-mean-in-apm-transactions-on-kibana/196470/3 "2019-08-23T09:02:10Z")
Thanks @felixbarny for the quick help. ---
**Author:** ![bmorelli25](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bmorelli25/32/38738_2.png) [@bmorelli25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bmorelli25)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-impact-mean-in-apm-transactions-on-kibana/196470/4 "2019-08-23T13:58:11Z")
To add to what Felix said: Impact helps show the most used and slowest endpoints in your service - in other words, it’s the collective amount of pain a specific endpoint is causing your users. [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/transactions.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/transactions.html) ---
**Author:** ![smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/smith/32/53043_2.png) [@smith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/smith)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-impact-mean-in-apm-transactions-on-kibana/196470/5 "2019-08-28T18:52:12Z")
I opened [elastic/kibana#44313](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/44313) to make sure these definitions are shown in the UI. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-impact-mean-in-apm-transactions-on-kibana/196470/6 "2019-09-18T14:52:14Z")
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