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[role="xpack"]
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[[apm-getting-started]]
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== Get started with the APM app
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<titleabbrev>Get started</titleabbrev>
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Elastic APM captures different types of information from within instrumented applications:
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* *Spans* contain information about the execution of a specific code path.
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They measure from the start to end of an activity,
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and they can have a parent/child relationship with other spans.
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* *Transactions* are a special kind of span;
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they are the first span for a particular service and have extra metadata associated with them.
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As an example, a transaction could be a request to your server, a batch job, or a custom transaction type.
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*Traces* link together related transactions to show an end-to-end performance of how a request was served and which services were part of it.
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* *Errors* contain information about the original exception that occurred or about a log created when the exception occurred.
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Curated charts and tables display the different types of APM data, which allows you to compare and debug your applications easily.
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* <<services>>
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* <<traces>>
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* <<transactions>>
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* <<spans>>
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* <<errors>>
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* <<metrics>>
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* <<service-maps>>
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TIP: Want to learn more about the Elastic APM ecosystem?
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See the {apm-get-started-ref}/overview.html[APM Overview].
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include::services.asciidoc[]
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include::traces.asciidoc[]
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include::transactions.asciidoc[]
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include::spans.asciidoc[]
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include::errors.asciidoc[]
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include::metrics.asciidoc[]
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include::service-maps.asciidoc[]
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