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## APM Span

APM spans help identify situations such as:

- spikes in throughputs of enterprise users
- users suffering the highest latency
- data-source partitions that generate the most errors.

This helps troubleshoot application performance issues much easier than having to go through voluminous stack traces.

The APM Span table has multiple key details related to each service in the enterprise IT.

The recommended method to use the APM span dashboard is:

Web Monitor > APM dashboard > APM Span > Span Details

- Use the URL hyperlink in any row of the “Top 50 HTTP Conversations by worst response time” table (Web Monitor)
- Use the “TransactionID” hyperlink in any row of the “APM Transactions with Response Time” table of the APM Dashboard.
- Use the service ID in the “APM Spans with Response Time” table to see the related “Span details”.

For details see:

[Dashboard-APM Span Monitor](../detailed_dashboards/APM_Span_Dashboard.htm)