Logz.io has announced the launch of App 360, a new, observability-based approach to Application Performance Management (APM). App 360, the new addition to the Logz.io Open 360 observability platform, delivers all the functionality needed for core APM use cases in an observability solution that is simpler to use and less expensive than traditional APM solutions yet provides full visibility into application health and performance.

“App 360 takes everything that’s wrong with traditional APM and flips it on its head,” said Asaf Yigal, co-founder and CTO of Logz.io. “Whereas traditional APM is heavy, hard to implement, expensive, shackled by vendor lock-in and slow to bring business value, App 360 is exactly the opposite. App 360 is tailor-made for the microservices and Kubernetes era and offers a high-performance observability approach that is easy to set up, easy to use, and less costly than traditional APM solutions.”

Key Benefits: One of App 360’s major benefits is that it is exceptionally easy to use. Logz.io’s OpenTelemetry-based agent enables automatic service discovery, one-click application instrumentation, and data collection for logs, metrics and traces. From there, the most critical application telemetry data and insights are automatically highlighted within App 360 — making the current state of service performance obvious.

App 360 helps engineers surface issues sooner and debug their services faster. Logz.io’s Service Map and Service List provide a bird’s eye view of performance across microservices architectures. Telemetry data is automatically tagged and organized by microservices so when a problem occurs, it is immediately obvious which services are affected. From there, App 360 provides straightforward paths to investigate problems by correlating the relevant logs, metrics and traces needed to isolate the root cause of the issue.

Another key differentiator from traditional approaches is that every element of the Open 360 platform is optimized for maximum data and cost efficiency. From the platform’s unique Data Optimization Hub to multi-tiered storage, including Cold Tier on Amazon S3, organizations choosing Open 360 with new App 360 capabilities will appreciate significant savings over legacy APMs.

App 360 is immediately available to all Logz.io customers.