# Introduction to Monitoring

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[introduction-to-blackfire](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/OKI-oY7KiA8?rel=0&showinfo=0&modestbranding=1&autoplay=0)

[Blackfire monitoring](../../monitoring-cookbooks/index) provides a real-time bird's-eye view of your application performance.

Designed to swiftly bootstrap your performance improvement investigations, Blackfire monitoring informs you on **when and where** activity happened, allowing you to start drilling down the issue.

Once identified, [Blackfire Profiler](../../profiling-cookbooks/index)helps you spot the root cause of the function or service call level.

Blackfire monitoring also lets you prioritize possible improvements by always displaying the impact of [transactions](../../reference-guide/glossary#term-transaction)and [spans](../../reference-guide/glossary#term-span).

Alongside [alerting](../../monitoring-cookbooks/alerting) and [health reports](../../monitoring-cookbooks/health-report), Blackfire monitoring is designed to help you save time and regain control over your application's performance.

## Read More on Monitoring

- [Introduction to Monitoring ](index)

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- [Monitoring Dashboard ](dashboard)

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- [Filtering Transactions ](filtering)

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- [Automatic Profiling ](automatic-profiling)

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- [Alerting ](alerting)

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- [Health Report ](health-report)

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