# Cost-Profiling Microservice Applications Using an APM Stack
## Abbreviations  
The following abbreviations are used in this manuscript: \begin{tabular}{l l} APM & Application Performance Monitoring \\ CPT & Cost-Profiling Tool \\ CSP & Cloud Service Provider \\ IaaS & Infrastructure as a Service \\ VPA & Vertical Pod Autoscaler \\ \end{tabular}  References  
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