Preface

Oracle Enterprise Manager Monitoring Application Performance Guide explains how you use a series of Oracle applications to obtain end-to-end application monitoring. Using these products you can evaluate the user experience, discover services, monitor specific operation flows (transactions), examine execution in detail, and assess the availability of supporting infrastructure.

Audience

This document is intended for developers who are interested in the performance of their services, and for administrators who need to install and configure the components that provide monitoring services.

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