Apama is an event processing platform that monitors rapidly moving event streams, detects and analyzes important events and patterns of events, and immediately acts on events of interest according to your specifications.

You develop Apama applications that contain custom monitors that specify the events or patterns of events that interest you. These specifications are the logical equivalent of database queries. After you load your monitors into the Apama correlator, incoming events flow over the monitors and they monitor incoming event streams for the events and patterns you specified. When a monitor finds a matching event or pattern, it processes the event or pattern according to the rules you specified in the monitor. Apama can support huge numbers of individual monitors operating simultaneously.