Great performance and smooth user experience are what make or break an application. But when something goes wrong in today’s complex systems — spread across clouds, containers, and microservices — it can be hard to figure out why. 

 
That’s where Application Performance Monitoring (APM) comes in. APM helps you see inside your applications so you can understand how they’re running, spot problems before users notice them, and quickly find the root cause when things break.

 
Join our workshop to discover how Elastic APM makes application monitoring effortless. You’ll get a private hands-on environment with Elastic already hosted, where we’ll deploy an OpenTelemetry demo app together. After setting up Kubernetes monitoring and application observability, we’ll simulate real application issues and walk through how to troubleshoot them. With Elastic APM’s end-to-end tracing, metrics, and logs — all in one place — you’ll learn how to quickly identify and investigate root causes.

Introduction:

• Overview of Elastic APM and OpenTelemetry.
  

Hands-on Labs:

• Lab 1: Getting started - Monitor Kubernetes and deploy OTel demo app
• Lab 2: Bug #1 - Discovering the APM UI
• Lab 3: Bug #2 - Troubleshooting with the Elastic AI Assistant and ES|QL
• Lab 4: Bug #3 - Leveraging Synthetic Monitoring

Q&A:

•   Opportunity to ask questions.