# Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

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## [About the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) category](https://community.observeinc.com/t/about-the-application-performance-monitoring-apm-category/11)

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**Author:** [@nikhil.dua](https://community.observeinc.com/u/nikhil.dua)\
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**Last updated:** [July 31, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.observeinc.com/t/about-the-application-performance-monitoring-apm-category/11 "2025-07-31T18:10:04Z")

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Discuss and troubleshoot using Observe APM to monitor services, traces, and performance. Includes setup with OpenTelemetry, service maps, deployment tracking, trace exploration, and database troubleshooting across suppo…

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## [Managing attribute limits in OpenTelemetry and Observe APM](https://community.observeinc.com/t/managing-attribute-limits-in-opentelemetry-and-observe-apm/51)

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**Author:** [@abhishek](https://community.observeinc.com/u/abhishek)\
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**Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.observeinc.com/t/managing-attribute-limits-in-opentelemetry-and-observe-apm/51 "2025-08-27T21:04:11Z")

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By default, OpenTelemetry enforces certain limits on attributes - Common specification concepts | OpenTelemetry AttributeCountLimit (Default=128) - Maximum allowed attribute count per record; AttributeValueLengthLi…

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## [How do I monitor database services using Observe APM?](https://community.observeinc.com/t/how-do-i-monitor-database-services-using-observe-apm/45)

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**Author:** [@abhishek](https://community.observeinc.com/u/abhishek)\
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**Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.observeinc.com/t/how-do-i-monitor-database-services-using-observe-apm/45 "2025-08-27T20:35:19Z")

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In general, Observe automatically detects databases used by your applications, provided the applications are instrumented with OpenTelemetry. To instrument your applications, we recommend following the public documentat…