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from the docs of APM: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/get-started/7.12/transactions.html

Transactions are a special kind of span that have additional attributes associated with them. They describe an event captured by an Elastic APM agent instrumenting a service. You can think of transactions as the highest level of work you’re measuring within a service. As an example, a transaction might be a: ...

How is a "service" defined?

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A Service is an application that is connected to the APM server via a connection and sends all of the metrics to the server. Almost all of the backend languages connects to the APM using a client library. I use it in Golang, the library has an agent that wraps the router and captures all metrics. In both of HTTP and GRPC.

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