Cisco has recently included its AppDynamics application management suite in the offerings available on Microsoft Azure cloud services.
This collaboration provides customers with advanced tools to enhance the performance of their applications, virtual machines, and additional resources on Azure, enabling them to pinpoint and resolve issues more efficiently. This was detailed by Ronak Desai, the senior vice president and general manager of Cisco AppDynamics and full-stack observability, in a blog post.
AppDynamics stands as Cisco’s flagship application management tool, offering live monitoring of application responsiveness, error frequencies, and the consumption of resources, among other features.
Desai explained, “AppDynamics empowers organizations to provide outstanding digital experiences while bolstering business resiliency. It offers extensive Application Performance Management (APM), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), monitoring solutions for SAP, observability, network intelligence, and insights that connect with crucial business metrics for applications operating in hybrid and private environments.”
Through its collaboration with Azure, the platform enhances visibility into the performance of applications hosted on Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. Notably, AppDynamics development is now incorporated within Cisco’s comprehensive Splunk observability solutions, enabling customers to monitor and secure their applications in any setting to improve business results, as per Desai. (Explore more about network observability tools in our buyer’s guide).
“Our continuing expansion of partnership with Microsoft allows us to forecast a rapid sequence of observability innovations with comprehensive observability features from AppDynamics and Splunk, a Cisco company, arriving on Azure later this year,” stated Desai.
Work on some of these integrations has already started. For instance, a new development will enable customers to merge logs from the Splunk Platform with Cisco AppDynamics and Splunk Observability Cloud for quicker troubleshooting in both on-premises and hybrid settings, as announced by Cisco at its Live event this summer.
Moreover, a forthcoming feature will amalgamate application performance and business transaction metrics with alerts from Cisco AppDynamics into Splunk IT Service Intelligence to diminish alert noise and associate IT health with business KPIs.
By integrating Cisco AIOps with Splunk IT Service Intelligence, alerts and events from Cisco networking devices and infrastructure can be correlated alongside the broader IT estate, for more accurate in-context troubleshooting inclusive of network signals, Cisco stated.
In addition to Splunk integration, Cisco recently added AI features to its AppDynamics observability platform that promise to help customers more quickly detect anomalies, identify performance problems, and resolve issues across the enterprise. The new features will be implemented in a virtual appliance, available this month, for Cisco AppDynamics On-Premises, which gives customers the ability to see and manage their entire application stack, including application code, runtime, infrastructure (servers, databases, networks, VMs, containers), and user experience.
The virtual appliance includes an AI-based detection and remediation capability that learns and detects anomalies and can determine root causes in application performance issues, wrote Aaron Schifman, senior technical product marketing manager at Cisco AppDynamics, in a blog. The package combines threat detection, threat intelligence and business impact to create a composite risk score that identifies which threats must be addressed first based on likely business impact, Schifman stated.
AppDynamics can run on AWS and SAP services as well as Azure.