APM and USM may look similar, but they solve different problems. Here’s how to choose the right one — and what to do when your stack doesn’t support either.

I’ve spent a good amount of time recently working in the App Builder, understanding its capabilities, and how some of it works. While there are a lot of examples in the form of blueprints that are provided by Datadog, figuring out how some more of the functionality really works has been tricky, since the documentation is still a work in progress. So, I did some of the hard parts, so you don’t have to!