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title: Application and service monitoring
description: Explore the topics in this section to learn how to observe and monitor software applications and services running in your environment. 
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/solutions/observability/applications
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
  - Elastic Observability
---

# Application and service monitoring
Explore the topics in this section to learn how to observe and monitor software applications and services running in your environment.

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| [LLM Observability](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/solutions/observability/applications/llm-observability)LLM Observability                    | Monitor LLM-powered applications to keep them reliable, efficient, cost-effective, and easy to troubleshoot.                                                                                                         |
| [Application performance monitoring (APM)](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/solutions/observability/apm)Application performance monitoring (APM) | Monitor software services and applications in real time, by collecting detailed performance information on response time for incoming requests, database queries, calls to caches, external HTTP requests, and more. |
| [Synthetic monitoring](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/solutions/observability/synthetics)Synthetic monitoring                                  | Monitor the availability of network endpoints and services.                                                                                                                                                          |
| [Real user monitoring](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/solutions/observability/applications/user-experience)Real user monitoring                | Quantify and analyze the perceived performance of your web application using real-world user experiences.                                                                                                            |
| [Uptime monitoring (deprecated)](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/solutions/observability/uptime)Uptime monitoring (deprecated)                  | Periodically check the status of your services and applications.                                                                                                                                                     |