Torben Sorensen
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ADR-015: Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Error Tracking
Date: 2025-12-12
Status: Proposed
Context
While ADR-004 established structured logging, the application lacks a high-level, aggregated view of its health, performance, and errors. It's difficult to spot trends, identify slow API endpoints, or be proactively notified of new types of errors.
Decision
We will integrate a dedicated Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and error tracking service like Sentry, Datadog, or New Relic. This will define how the service is integrated to automatically capture and report unhandled exceptions, performance data (e.g., transaction traces, database query times), and release health.
Consequences
Positive: Provides critical observability into the application's real-world behavior. Enables proactive identification and resolution of performance bottlenecks and errors. Improves overall application reliability and user experience. Negative: Introduces a new third-party dependency and potential subscription costs. Requires initial setup and configuration of the APM/error tracking agent.