The APM is a free feature that allows Kinsta's users to see preformance bottlenecks in their WordPress sites. The data collected by the APM was using a PHP Agent that was custom built at Kinsta and is collecting data which is stored in ElasticSearch. When the Agent is enabled it will be prepended to the PHP processes and measure the amount of time hooks, functions, db queries, and external queries would take.

The data collected is consumed from ElasticSearch using GraphQL and displayed in the MyKinsta application dashboard. The data visualization is meant help display which technical areas of the site are the slowest.

Tabbed sections with sortable tables allow users to easily drill down to which areas of their site are the slowest. Clicking items in the span table opens a modal to diaplay a stack trace that helps users pinpoint where optimizations could be applied.