Atatus APM: Full-Stack Visibility for Modern Engineering Teams 2025
APM stands for Application Performance Monitoring or Application Performance Management. It helps engineering teams track key metrics, detect slowdowns, and improve the overall performance of their applications.
With Atatus APM, you get complete visibility into your application, from backend code and databases to external services and frontend performance. It enables developers, DevOps engineers, SREs, and product teams to identify issues quickly, understand their root cause, and fix them before they impact users.
In this blog, we will explore the core features of Atatus APM and how it helps modern teams monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their applications more efficiently.
Table of Contents
- Why Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Matters?
- What is Atatus APM?
- Key Features of Atatus APM
- Getting Started with Atatus APM
Why Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Matters?
Imagine a customer opens your app to do something important. The page loads slowly. They click again, but nothing happens. After a few seconds, they give up and close the app. You just lost a user, and maybe even a customer. This is why APM is important. It helps you find and fix performance issues before your users see them.
Application Performance Monitoring gives you real-time visibility into what’s slowing down your app. It could be a database query, a third-party service, or a bug in your code. You get real-time data so your team can fix problems quickly. Good performance keeps users happy. APM helps you deliver that, every time.
What is Atatus APM?
Atatus APM (Application Performance Monitoring) is a full-stack monitoring tool that helps you track, analyze, and improve the performance of your applications.
It gives you real-time visibility into every part of your app, from backend code, APIs, and databases to frontend user experience. No matter if you run a monolithic app or a microservices-based system, Atatus gives you the insights to pinpoint slowdowns, failures, and their root causes.
Sign up for a free trial and experience full-stack visibility with Atatus APM.
With Atatus APM, you can:
- Monitor response times, error rates, and throughput
- Trace slow database queries and API calls
- Find performance bottlenecks in your code
- Get detailed stack traces and error reports
- Visualize service dependencies with distributed tracing
- Correlate frontend and backend issues using real user monitoring
- Monitor applications built in Node.js, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, .NET, and more
Atatus is built for developers, DevOps engineers, SREs, and product managers who need a clear, real-time view of their application’s health and performance. If you are looking for a powerful, easy-to-use APM tool to reduce downtime, debug faster, and deliver better user experiences, Atatus APM is built for you.
Key Features of Atatus APM
- Distributed Tracing & Service Map
- Slow Database & External API Monitoring
- Real User Monitoring Integration
- Exception and Error Tracking
- Custom Dashboards and Smart Alerting
- Infrastructure Correlation
- Deployment Tracking
1. Distributed Tracing & Service Map
Distributed tracing in Atatus allows you to follow a single request as it travels through every layer of your application including APIs, microservices, databases, and background jobs. Alongside this, the service map provides a visual overview of how services are connected and communicate within your architecture. Together, they offer complete visibility into the performance and dependencies of your system.
Why it matters: In microservices-based architectures, even small delays or failures in one service can ripple through the entire application. Without distributed tracing, it's extremely difficult to pinpoint where a request is slowing down or breaking. Traditional logs and metrics often miss cross-service context, making it hard to diagnose latency issues or service failures across distributed systems.
How it helps your team: Atatus helps your team trace the complete lifecycle of a request, from the entry point to each service, so you can see where time is spent and which service causes a delay or error. This reduces time spent on debugging and allows developers, DevOps engineers, and SREs to resolve performance issues faster, improve service-level reliability, and optimize the overall user experience.
2. Slow Database & External API Monitoring
Atatus monitors the performance of your database queries and external HTTP/API calls, identifying slow executions, timeouts, and failures in real time. It provides detailed traces and metrics for each call, helping you understand how backend dependencies affect your application’s responsiveness. You can view execution times, error rates, affected endpoints, and the exact query or API involved.
Why it matters: Slow database queries and third-party API delays are among the most common and costly performance bottlenecks in modern applications. These issues can negatively affect user experience, and increase page load times. Without visibility into these backend operations, teams are left guessing where the problem lies leading to longer incident resolution times.
How it helps your team: With Atatus, developers and backend engineers can pinpoint exactly which SQL queries or external services are contributing to latency. This enables them to optimize slow queries, adjust API timeouts, or implement fallbacks for unreliable services. By resolving these bottlenecks early, teams can maintain fast response times, reduce error rates, and ensure a more reliable experience for users
3. Real User Monitoring Integration
Real User Monitoring (RUM) captures how real users experience your application in the browser or mobile environment. It tracks metrics such as page load times, frontend errors, time to interactive, and performance across different devices, browsers, and geographies. This data provides direct insights into actual user behaviour and experience, rather than simulated or synthetic tests.
Why it matters: Backend performance metrics only tell part of the story, users experience delays, UI glitches, and slow load times on the frontend. Without RUM, you miss visibility into what users are really seeing and feeling. Poor frontend performance can lead to frustration, even when your backend is performing well. RUM ensures you capture the full experience.
How it helps your team: By integrating APM with RUM, Atatus links backend performance traces with individual user sessions. This helps teams quickly understand if a backend issue is directly affecting the user experience on the frontend. It allows frontend engineers, SREs, and product managers to prioritize issues based on user impact, optimize for different devices and regions, and deliver a consistently smooth digital experience.
4. Exception and Error Tracking
Atatus automatically captures every unhandled exception, runtime error, and crash across your application stack whether it occurs in the frontend, backend, or during API interactions. Each error is logged with rich context, including stack traces, user actions, request metadata, affected environments, and release versions.
Why it matters:Uncaught errors can interrupt critical user workflows, lead to data integrity issues, and negatively impact user trust. In the absence of real-time visibility, such issues often remain undetected until end-users report them. Without sufficient context, diagnosing and reproducing these problems becomes time-consuming and inefficient.
How it helps your team: Atatus provides developers with detailed error reports that include the exact file, line number, request payload, user identity (if available), and timestamp making it easier to locate and resolve bugs quickly. It also helps you track error frequency and trends across releases, so you can prioritize high-impact issues and improve application quality over time.
5. Custom Dashboards and Smart Alerting
Atatus allows you to create fully customizable dashboards to track the metrics that matter most to your team whether it’s response time, error rates, throughput, or resource usage. You can also set smart alerts based on conditions like sudden spikes, sustained anomalies, or threshold breaches across any metric in real time.
Why it matters: Every team has different monitoring needs. Developers, DevOps engineers, and SREs all focus on different KPIs, so static dashboards and generic alerts often lead to missed signals or alert fatigue. Without tailored views and targeted alerts, teams waste time filtering through irrelevant data instead of focusing on what actually needs attention.
How it helps your team: With Atatus, each team can build dashboards specific to their workflows developers can track slow endpoints, while DevOps can focus on infrastructure and uptime metrics. Smart alerting ensures only the right people are notified, reducing noise and enabling faster, more focused responses when issues arise.
6. Infrastructure Correlation
Atatus correlates application performance data with infrastructure metrics like CPU, memory, disk I/O, and container health. It provides a unified view of both code-level performance and system-level resource usage. This helps teams understand how infrastructure conditions impact the behavior and responsiveness of their applications.
Why it matters: Sometimes, the issue is not in your code, it’s in your infrastructure. Without proper context, engineers spend time investigating the wrong layer, delaying resolution. Additionally, infrastructure issues like memory leaks, CPU spikes, or container crashes can silently affect performance unless they are linked directly to application behaviour.
How it helps your team: DevOps engineers and SREs can see if a performance drop was due to a spike in CPU, a memory leak, or a server failure. By seeing infrastructure and application metrics side by side, your team gets a complete picture of system health, enabling faster root cause analysis and reducing downtime.
7. Deployment Tracking
Deployment tracking lets you mark and monitor every new release within Atatus, giving you full visibility into how each deployment affects your application’s performance and stability. You can view release markers on your performance charts and analyze pre- and post-deployment metrics like error rates, response times, and throughput in real time.
Why it matters: New code deployments often introduce performance regressions, bugs, or breaking changes that may not surface immediately. Without clear deployment tracking, teams may struggle to trace issues back to a specific release. Tracking deployments helps you understand the direct impact of code changes, avoid guessing during troubleshooting, and gain confidence in your CI/CD pipeline.
How it helps your team: You can correlate error spikes, performance slowdowns, or stability issues directly with the timing of a deployment, making it easier to pinpoint and fix bad releases. This helps teams to act quickly, while also improving future release quality through better visibility and faster feedback loops.
Getting Started with Atatus APM
Atatus delivers comprehensive, full-stack performance monitoring that you can deploy and manage within your own infrastructure, offering complete control over your data and system architecture.
How to Get Started:
- Choose your plan and follow the quick setup guide at the Atatus documentation.
- Instrument your application with just a few lines of code.
- Start monitoring immediately: explore traces, errors, users, infra, and deploy performance insights in your dashboard.
Need help along the way? Check out our documentation, reach out to our support team, or explore real-world scenarios in our case studies. Ready to get started? Sign up for a free trial and experience full-stack visibility with Atatus APM.