...APM data is sent to your Elastic Observability deployment -- hosted in Elastic's cloud or in your own on-premises deployment -- where you can monitor your application, create alerts, and quick identify root causes of service issues. First, you will need an Elastic Stack deployment. This is a deployment of APM Server (which receives APM data from the APM agent running in your application), Elasticsearch (the database that stores all APM data), and Kibana (the application that provides the interface to visualize and analyze the data). If you do not already have an Elastic deployment to use, follow this APM Quick Start guide to create a free trial on Elastic's cloud.