Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools monitor software applications from the end user perspective by monitoring availability and performance, and detecting early signs of issues. The goals of APM include proactively determining environment health ahead of customer issues, having cross-application data to quickly pinpoint root causes of outages, and determining capacity nearing for critical applications. Potential vendors were evaluated based on use cases through a proof of concept, with the findings being that all shortlisted candidates would improve monitoring capabilities and setup has been validated to be easier than expected, with pricing similarly for a 3-year term.