Application Performance Monitoring Built for Mobile
Most APM tools were built for servers first and bolted mobile on afterward. BugsPulse starts from the mobile app: crash reporting, network monitoring, and session context for React Native and Flutter, without adopting a full infrastructure platform to get it.
What is application performance monitoring?
APM is the practice of tracking how an application actually behaves once it's in users' hands — errors, crashes, slow requests, and the sequence of events around them — so problems get caught before they turn into support tickets or one-star reviews. The category grew up around backend and infrastructure monitoring (Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics), which is why most APM tools are strongest at tracing requests across servers and databases.
Mobile APM applies the same idea to the device itself: what crashed, what network call failed, what the user was doing right before it happened — data a backend-focused tool has no way to see.
What mobile APM needs to cover
Crash reporting
Automatic capture of JS exceptions, unhandled promise rejections, and native crashes, with symbolicated stack traces and AI-generated summaries.
Network monitoring
Every request your app makes — URL, method, status, duration — so you can see the failed API call behind a crash or a slow screen.
Session replay
Event-based reconstruction of taps, navigation, and network activity leading up to an issue, without recording video or screen content.
Custom event tracking
Track app-specific events with BugsPulse.track() to see business-relevant context — checkout started, sync failed — alongside technical data.
Alerting
Email and Slack alert channels per project, so new or spiking crash groups reach the team without someone watching a dashboard.
AI-assisted triage
Every crash group gets a plain-English summary of the likely cause, cutting the time between 'something broke' and 'here's the fix.'
Where BugsPulse fits
BugsPulse isn't a full-stack observability platform — it doesn't do infrastructure monitoring, log aggregation, or backend distributed tracing. It's mobile APM specifically: crash reporting, network monitoring, session context, and alerting for React Native and Flutter, set up in about five minutes.
If you already run a full-stack APM tool for infrastructure and backend services, pairing it with BugsPulse for the mobile layer is a reasonable setup — see how the two compare in our Datadog comparison. If mobile is the whole problem, BugsPulse covers it without the platform overhead.
Frequently asked questions
What is application performance monitoring (APM)?
APM is the practice of tracking how an application behaves in production — errors, crashes, response times, and the user journey around them — so teams can find and fix problems before they show up as support tickets or bad reviews. Traditional APM tools (Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics) originated for backend and infrastructure monitoring; mobile APM applies the same idea to what happens on a user's device.
How is mobile APM different from backend APM?
Backend APM tracks servers, databases, and request traces across your infrastructure. Mobile APM tracks what happens on the device itself: crashes, ANRs, network calls the app makes, JS/native errors, and the sequence of user actions leading up to a failure — data a backend-focused tool has no visibility into.
Is BugsPulse an APM tool?
BugsPulse is mobile APM specifically for React Native and Flutter — not a full-stack platform covering infrastructure and backend services too. If you need backend and infrastructure monitoring as well, pair BugsPulse with your existing backend APM tool; if mobile is the gap, BugsPulse covers it without adopting a much larger platform for one product.
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