Application performance monitoring vendor Instana today announced its PHP monitoring and tracing service is available on Arm-based servers.

The release marks Instana’s first service to support systems running on Arm processors. Further, the company claims to be the first "observability and monitoring solution to support automatic distributed tracing across PHP workloads running on AWS Graviton2.”

Graviton2 is Amazon’s second-generation processor based on Arm’s 64-bit Neoverse core design and is produced using a 7-nanometer process. Amazon began offering up Graviton2-based instances in its Elastic Compute Cloud late this spring, and announced a slew of additional instances earlier this month.

“The continued evolution of cloud infrastructure and platforms requires tooling for [develop and operations] teams to keep up,” said Chris Farrel, director and application performance monitoring strategist at Instana, in a statement.

According to Farrel, Instana’s latest update goes beyond performance metrics to deliver greater visibility for workloads running on Graviton2 and other Arm-based hosts.

The PHP sensor monitors the infrastructure and application performance — including deep code visibility — captures a trace of every request, and profiles every process. This information is ingested and processed to provide development operations teams with greater context over the performance and stability of an application in real time.

Instana plans to roll out Arm support to more of its monitoring stack in the near future.

The announcement comes just weeks after Amazon announced plans to expand its custom silicon portfolio beyond Graviton2. The future of AWS will be built on custom silicon, AWS CEO Andy Jassy said during the opening keynote of re:Invent 2020.

The cloud provider now plans to develop and deploy custom machine learning and training chips. Meanwhile, other cloud providers including Oracle and Microsoft have begun offering virtual machine instances running on Arm processors from Ampere and Marvell, respectively.

Instana’s move to support Arm-based hosts bodes well for IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy. Big blue announced plans to acquire Instana this fall.

The announcement marks the third AWS themed announcement since the start of Amazon’s re:Invent virtual conference earlier this month.

Last week, the company announced native trace support for Java, Go, Python, and Node.js applications running in Amazon Web Services Lambda.

And prior to that, Instana announced the availability of its monitoring services on the AWS Marketplace.