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Troubleshoot APM

Serverless Observability Stack

This section provides solutions to common questions and problems, and processing and performance guidance.

  • Common problems with APM
  • What happens when APM Server or Elasticsearch is down?
  • APM Server response codes
  • Processing and performance
  • APM Server binary debugging
  • APM Server performance diagnostic

For additional help with other APM components, see the links below.

Troubleshooting documentation

Elastic Agent, the Applications UI, and each APM agent has its own troubleshooting guide:

  • Troubleshoot Fleet and Elastic Agent
  • Troubleshoot APM .NET agent
  • Troubleshoot APM Go Agent
  • Troubleshoot APM Java Agent
  • Troubleshoot APM Node.js Agent
  • Troubleshoot APM PHP Agent
  • Troubleshoot APM Python Agent
  • Troubleshoot APM Ruby Agent
  • Troubleshoot APM Real User Monitoring JavaScript Agent

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