According to Gartner "Application performance monitoring (APM) is a suite of monitoring software comprising digital experience monitoring (DEM), application discovery, tracing and diagnostics, and purpose-built artificial intelligence for IT operations".
The APM team in Gitlab is responsible for building a suite of monitoring solutions focusing on Logs, Metrics and Tracing all within Gitlab UI
you can read more about our monitoring visions for [Logs](https://about.gitlab.com/direction/monitor/apm/logging/), [Metrics](https://about.gitlab.com/direction/monitor/apm/metrics/) and [Traces](https://about.gitlab.com/direction/monitor/apm/tracing/).