APM Tools vs Infrastructure Monitoring

Developers should use APM tools when deploying applications to production to ensure reliability, troubleshoot issues quickly, and optimize performance meets developers should learn infrastructure monitoring to build resilient, scalable applications and participate in devops/sre practices. Here's our take.

APM Tools

Nice Pick

Developers should use APM tools when deploying applications to production to ensure reliability, troubleshoot issues quickly, and optimize performance

Pros

• They are particularly valuable for microservices architectures, cloud-native applications, and high-traffic systems where monitoring distributed components is critical
• Related to: observability, distributed-tracing

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

Infrastructure Monitoring

Developers should learn infrastructure monitoring to build resilient, scalable applications and participate in DevOps/SRE practices

Pros

• It's essential for troubleshooting production issues, capacity planning, and ensuring high availability in microservices or cloud-native architectures
• Related to: observability, apm-application-performance-monitoring

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

The Verdict

These tools serve different purposes. APM Tools is a tool while Infrastructure Monitoring is a concept. We picked APM Tools based on overall popularity, but your choice depends on what you're building.

The Bottom Line

APM Tools wins

Based on overall popularity. APM Tools is more widely used, but Infrastructure Monitoring excels in its own space.