Observe by Snowflake application performance monitoring (APM) helps you monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of your microservices, databases, and message brokers. By providing detailed insights into service health, dependencies, errors, and deployments, APM enables faster root cause analysis and a clearer understanding of system behavior. With powerful workflows like trace-log correlation, dependency mapping, Monitor binding, and Kubernetes integration, Observe APM empowers teams to resolve incidents quickly and improve baseline performance.

Configure APM instrumentation

Before you can use APM features in Observe by Snowflake, you must collect application telemetry data with OpenTelemetry instrumentation and the Observe Agent.

See APM instrumentation.

Get started with Observe by Snowflake APM

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Discover and map your services

Learn how to use the Service Explorer and Service Inspector to gain instant visibility into all the services, databases, and message brokers powering your applications.

Search and inspect your traces

Learn how to use the Trace Explorer to quickly find and analyze traces for specific requests, services, or user interactions.

Use cases and examples

See some use cases and examples of how to use Observe by Snowflake APM features.

Validate or troubleshoot APM telemetry

If you're not seeing expected data or desired features, review the APM observability reference to verify you are collecting the telemetry data required to enable the desired Observe by Snowflake APM features.

More information

Get more information about APM observability:

Read the launch blog introducing Observe by Snowflake's OpenTelemetry-Native APM solution.
See the APM reference to read about APM data collection, terminology, and interface.