---
slug: /apm
title: Application Performance Monitoring
sidebar_label: APM, RUM, and Traces
description: Monitor user and app behavior with Sumo Logic trace analytics and real user monitoring.
canonical: https://www.sumologic.com/help/docs/apm/
---

import useBaseUrl from '@docusaurus/useBaseUrl';

Monitor user activity, span analytics, service maps, and transaction traces between microservices.

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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/apm/traces')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/traces.png')} alt="Traces icon" width="40"/><h4>Traces</h4></a>
  <p>Learn how to work with application tracing data using dashboards, Services Lists and Maps, Spans, and queries.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/apm/real-user-monitoring')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/apm.png')} alt="Apm icon" width="50"/><h4>Real User Monitoring</h4></a>
  <p>Understand how users interact with the digital interfaces of your business.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/apm/spans')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/traces.png')} alt="Traces icon" width="40"/><h4>Span Analytics and Queries</h4></a>
  <p>Learn how to use the Spans page to explore your span data.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/apm/services-list-map')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/apm/services-map-icon.png')} alt="Services Map icon" width="45"/><h4>Services List and Map</h4></a>
  <p>View your application topology and investigate microservice interactions.</p>
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