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[[supported-technologies]]
== Supported technologies

The Elastic APM Ruby Agent has built-in support for many frameworks and
libraries.

Generally we want to support all the most popular libraries, so if your favorite
is missing feel free so request it in an issue or better yet supply a pull
request.

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[[supported-technologies-ruby]]
=== Ruby

We follow Ruby's own maintenance policy and officially support all currently
maintained versions per
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/branches/[Ruby Maintenance Branches].

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[[supported-technologies-web]]
=== Web Frameworks and Libraries

We have automatic support for Ruby on Rails and all Rack compatible web
frameworks.

We test against all supported minor versions of Rails and Sinatra.

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[[supported-technologies-rails]]
==== Ruby on Rails

We currently support all versions of Rails since 4.2.
This follows Rails' own https://rubyonrails.org/security/[Security policy].

See <<getting-started-rails>>.

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[[supported-technologies-sinatra]]
==== Sinatra

We currently support all versions of Sinatra since 1.0.

See <<getting-started-rack>>.

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[[supported-technologies-databases]]
=== Databases

We automatically instrument database actions using:

- ActiveRecord
- Elasticsearch
- Mongo
- Redis
- Sequel

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[[supported-technologies-http]]
=== External HTTP requests

We automatically instrument and add support for distributed tracing to external
requests using these libraries:

- `net/http`
- Http.rb

Version data entries

3 entries across 3 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
elastic-apm-2.3.1	docs/supported-technologies.asciidoc
elastic-apm-2.3.0	docs/supported-technologies.asciidoc
elastic-apm-2.2.0	docs/supported-technologies.asciidoc