Cisco and Splunk Enable Unparalleled
Visibility and Real-Time Insights to Standardize Observability in
One Solution
News Summary:
- The new Unified Observability Experience offers customers
a cohesive experience across Cisco and Splunk observability
solutions, while establishing the foundation for future
integrations.
- Integration and new innovations empower customers with best in
class support for both traditional and modern application
architectures and visibility across their entire digital
footprint.
- Through Cisco and Splunk observability solutions, customers can
build an observability practice that meets their IT environment
needs, on-premises, hybrid and multi cloud.
LAS
VEGAS, June 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CISCO
LIVE -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today unveiled the first of
its innovative integrations with Splunk, a Cisco company, as the
organizations combine their market-leading observability
technologies to accelerate full-stack observability for the entire
enterprise, helping customers deliver more performant and
secure digital experiences. Through the full-stack observability
journey, organizations can unlock unified visibility across any
environment (on-premises, hybrid and multi cloud) and any stack
while harnessing powerful real-time analytics for faster, more
accurate detection, investigation and response.
Building on the recent landmark acquisition, Cisco and Spunk
announced new integrations including a unified observability
experience for joint customers, and the introduction of Splunk Log
Observer Connect for Cisco AppDynamics and Cisco AppDynamics
integration with Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI). Now with
Cisco's unparalleled visibility into the network and any
environment, coupled with Splunk's industry-defining log analytics
and cloud native observability capabilities, customers can
instrument their entire business and reduce blind spots.
New full-stack observability innovations were also announced,
including a new AI Assistant for AppDynamics which delivers
meaningful guidance and insights, and empowers users to make
informed decisions faster and more accurately than ever before, as
well as expanded AppDynamics Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) hosting
on Microsoft Azure. In addition, new Advanced AI in Splunk IT
Service Intelligence (ITSI) was unveiled, which leverages advanced
AI and machine learning capabilities to provide IT teams more
precise alerting and a more accurate view into IT health.
Through Cisco and Splunk's new integrations and
innovations, customers gain unified visibility across their entire
digital footprint, including both owned and unowned networks. The
observability experience helps meet customers' unique IT
environment needs by providing support for on-premises, hybrid and
multi cloud environments.
"By bringing together Splunk and Cisco observability solutions,
customers now have unified visibility across their entire digital
footprint so they can detect, investigate and resolve problems
faster to create a reliable, resilient experience for their users,"
said Tom Casey, SVP and GM, Products
& Technology, Splunk. "Having full control over their data
helps them make more targeted, effective and smarter investments in
their digital systems and services, allowing them to better
leverage their entire digital footprint to attract more business
and grow the company."
Key announcements include:
A Foundation for a Unified Observability
Journey
New unified experiences across Cisco and Splunk observability
products enable better efficiency and accuracy in troubleshooting
hybrid environments that span traditional and modern applications,
as well as owned and unowned networks. The new single sign-on
(SSO) credentials help simplify and streamline shared workflows
between Cisco AppDynamics and Splunk, enabling customers to better
access the right data. The introduction of context-aware deep
linking enables Cisco AppDynamics customers to seamlessly
transition to relevant logs in the Splunk Platform as part of their
troubleshooting workflow, leading to heightened productivity and
faster Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) across solutions.
Support for any environment
Cisco and Splunk are delivering a standardized approach for
customers to help ensure reliability across their digital estate,
whether traditional applications or modern cloud-native
environments. Combining Cisco AppDynamics for Application
Performance Monitoring (APM) for three-tier and hybrid applications
with the Splunk Observability Cloud for microservices environments,
underpinned by Splunk Platform and event correlation capabilities
from Splunk ITSI, customers unlock visibility across any
environment and any stack. This integration
includes:
Splunk Log Observer Connect for Cisco AppDynamics:
Combines the power of Splunk Platform with Cisco AppDynamics APM to
drive faster, in-context troubleshooting across on-prem and hybrid
environments. This integration enables both SaaS and on-premises
customers to seamlessly analyze relevant logs when troubleshooting
application performance issues, for increased accuracy, efficiency
and faster MTTR.
Cisco AppDynamics integration with Splunk Enterprise / Splunk
Cloud and Splunk ITSI: Reduce alert noise, improve
troubleshooting and gain exec-level visibility via integration
across Cisco AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise / Splunk Cloud and
Splunk ITSI. Correlate application metrics and events from
AppDynamics with other data about systems and services in Splunk
Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. Group related alerts to eliminate
alert storms and leverage business service monitoring to understand
how IT issues impact business KPIs. With updates to the technical
add-on (TA) and content pack with support for AppDynamics, Splunk
customers will have access to application performance and business
transaction metrics and alerts from Cisco AppDynamics to have more
actionable alerts, additional application context and end-to-end
visibility of IT health.
Cisco AppDynamics on Microsoft Azure: Expansion of
cloud-hosted observability offerings now brings Cisco AppDynamics
APM services to SaaS-hosted Microsoft Azure, fostering the support
of multi-cloud strategies across new regions. The new offering
enables organizations to streamline workflows, minimize cloud
vendor lock-in and observe what's most important — while
maintaining compliance with industry-specific regulatory
requirements.
Meaningful AI-driven insights for more informed
decisions
Cisco AI Assistant for Cisco AppDynamics: Integrated into
the AppDynamics Help Center, the new AI Assistant uses generative
AI technology with selectable personalities that tailor responses
to diverse levels of knowledge or skill sets. Users are empowered
with meaningful guidance and insights to make informed, intelligent
decisions faster and more accurately than ever before.
Advanced AI in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI):
Leverages advanced AI and machine learning capabilities to help
teams quickly and easily configure and implement dynamic, adaptive
thresholds, manage and optimize configurations, and proactively
surface insights into the health of ITSI knowledge objects, such as
KPIs, services and entities. The Configuration Assistant in Splunk
ITSI provides a centralized console that helps IT administrators
maintain accurate alerting by providing insights into outdated
threshold models and optimizing those with a guided remediation,
helping to reduce false positive alerts.
"Now, with Cisco and Splunk, you get the strength of Cisco
AppDynamics and Splunk Observability, powered by Generative AI,
offering customers a comprehensive opportunity to achieve
Observability for the whole enterprise," said Stephen Elliot, Group Vice President &
Analyst, IDC.
"We are proud to have Cisco as our digital partner in our
comprehensive observability framework. This collaboration continues
to propel our efforts to improve customer satisfaction and foster
long-term loyalty," said Dan Field,
Director, Platform and Network Engineering, United Airlines.
Availability
- Single Sign-on and Log Observer Connect for
Cisco AppDynamics, part of the preview of the Unified
Observability Experience, will be generally available in
Q3CY24.
- The updated Splunk TA for AppDynamics and Splunk ITSI App
for Content Packs (with support for Cisco AppDynamics) will be
generally available on June 14,
CY24.
- Cisco AI Assistant for Cisco AppDynamics will be generally
available Q3CY24.
- Cisco AppDynamics will be SaaS hosted on Microsoft Azure
in Q3CY24.
- The Configuration Assistant, which is a part of Advanced AI
for Splunk ITSI, is generally available.
Additional Resources
- Join our Webinar on "Better Together: Introducing New Splunk
Integrations and AI Innovations for Cisco AppDynamics"
- Executive Blog: Bringing the Cisco AppDynamics + Splunk Better
Together story to Cisco Live
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