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Full Stack Observability: Everything, everywhere, all at once

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Full Stack Observability: Everything, everywhere, all at once

With data signals coming from every direction, it’s getting harder to monitor how well your digital infrastructure is (or isn’t) working. In my 17 years at Cisco, I’ve learned a few things. For example: Life comes at you fast, data comes even faster The ability to respond to new information quickly and effectively is crucial Success in any enterprise ultimately comes down to your ability to ensure the best possible customer experience, and to do…

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Answering the Executive “Why” and “What” for Full-Stack Observability

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Answering the Executive “Why” and “What” for Full-Stack Observability

IDC is often asked why observability matters and how it benefits an organization.  A recent worldwide IDC survey (sponsored by Cisco) on full-stack observability (FSO) offers some answers.  Around 75% of the 2,062 global technology executives surveyed agree that their CEO and business leadership understand that complete visibility and control over infrastructure, network, applications, security, and digital experience is critical to digital business success. And with so much riding on the digital infrastructure, 47% of…

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Full-stack application and data security with business risk observability

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Full-stack application and data security with business risk observability

Cisco Full-Stack Observability brings application observability together with security intelligence and risk assessment for comprehensive business-focused oversight Businesses in all sectors and industries report feeling more exposed to security threats. Recent Cisco AppDynamics research reveals that 89% of technologists say their organization has experienced an expansion in its attack surface over the last two years, and 46% state that this has presented increased challenges. It’s not surprising. The operational teams tasked with fending off threats…

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A prescription for insights: Cisco Full-Stack Observability supercharges healthcare

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A prescription for insights: Cisco Full-Stack Observability supercharges healthcare

More than a path to digitization or a mere advancement in monitoring, Cisco Full-Stack Observability solutions are a strategic asset that empower patient care and clinical outcomes via secure, performant, always-available digital experiences The healthcare ecosystem faces an entirely new environment than it did even just a few short years ago.  Healthcare organizations are under enormous pressure to integrate the latest technologies into their business models and IT architectures. This is disrupting service-delivery processes, patient…

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Dashify: Solving Data Wrangling for Dashboards

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Dashify: Solving Data Wrangling for Dashboards

This post is about Dashify, the Cisco Observability Platform’s dashboarding framework. We are going to describe how AppDynamics, and partners, use Dashify to build custom product screens, and then we are going to dive into details of the framework itself. We will describe its specific features that make it the most powerful and flexible dashboard framework in the industry. What are dashboards? Dashboards are data-driven user interfaces that are designed to be viewed, edited, and…

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Data Processing in Cisco Observability Platform – A Step-by-Step Guide

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Data Processing in Cisco Observability Platform – A Step-by-Step Guide

Process Vast Amounts of MELT Data Cisco Observability Platform s designed to ingest and process vast amounts of MELT (Metrics, Events, Logs and Traces) data. It is built on top of open standards like OpenTelemetry to ensure interoperability. What sets it apart is its provision of extensions, empowering our partners and customers to tailor every facet of its functionality to their unique needs. Our focus today is unveiling the intricacies of customizations specifically tailored for…

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Strategy, Incubation and Applications shows up strong at Cisco Live EMEA

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Strategy, Incubation and Applications shows up strong at Cisco Live EMEA

It was a strong start to the new year with an incredible week in Amsterdam, where the gloomy weather was a stark contrast to the excitement and energy of the 16,000 people who came together to talk with peers and experts about the biggest challenges and trends in the technology industry. With huge announcements, countless breakout sessions, live demos, and interactive booths, Cisco Live EMEA 2024 was a success to set the pace for the…

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Identify Weak Links in Your Application Stack – Part 2, Anomaly Detection

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Identify Weak Links in Your Application Stack – Part 2, Anomaly Detection

Anomaly Detection and Cisco Cloud Observability APIs In the Part 1 blog [1], we talked about the importance of application observability and how the application stack is more complex than ever with multi cloud deployments. We saw how the FSO solution, Cisco Cloud Observability [2], can be used to identify and react to cloud native application entity health leveraging Health Rules APIs and Actions API. One aspect of any APM solution is to ensure that…

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Identify Weak Links in Your Application Stack – Part 1, Health Rules

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Identify Weak Links in Your Application Stack – Part 1, Health Rules

Health Rules and Cisco Cloud Observability APIs Applications are the face of an organization, and we are entering the new age of application observability.[1] Keeping applications running like a well-oiled machine is imperative if the business is to succeed. Considering the complexity of the application stack that is spread across a multi cloud ecosystem, organizations have no choice but to adopt full stack observability that gives them visibility and insights into every entity in their…

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Automating Observability of Public Cloud Deployments with Cisco Cloud Observability APIs

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Automating Observability of Public Cloud Deployments with Cisco Cloud Observability APIs

Turn cloud native chaos into business context Considering that more than 90% of organizations leveraging public clouds are moving to a multi cloud strategy Cisco Observability Platform [1] promises to “turn cloud native chaos into business context” [2]. Such cloud observability tools for cloud native applications will possibly see wider adoption if the process of setting them up can be simplified. Automations for setting up observability across various cloud vendors – with a single set…

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