Explore how Splunk's latest innovations, including the integration of AppDynamics, are advancing enterprise observability. Learn how the unified platform delivers comprehensive visibility across complex environments, enhancing performance, reliability, and operational insights for organizations. This article originally appeared on Splunk.com. Many ITOps and engineering teams struggle with scattered visibility across their tech stack and lack insights into the performance issues impacting their business.

Discover how leaders in IT operations and engineering outperform peers through advanced observability practices. The State of Observability 2024 report reveals insights on AI, OpenTelemetry, platform engineering, and cutting-edge strategies driving innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage. This article originally appeared on Splunk.com. In 2024, simply having an observability practice is a given. In this era of observability, a high-functioning team will set leaders apart from their peers.

Cisco is expanding its strategic partnership with Microsoft by offering AppDynamics as a hosted solution on Microsoft Azure — providing more flexibility and choice to customers. This article originally appeared on the Cisco Executives blog. I’m pleased to announce that Cisco AppDynamics is now available on Microsoft Azure hosted in North America for customers and partners globally.

AppDynamics has updated its advanced monitoring and observability solution for SAP environments, achieving a new SAP certification for integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. AppDynamics provides real-time insights into SAP and non-SAP performance metrics, ensuring smooth operations and compliance. In May 2018, AppDynamics launched its industry-first Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) agent, followed by newly released functionality on a quarterly cadence.

Splunk and AppDynamics, united as part of Cisco, are driving the future of Observability. We are proud to announce that Splunk has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms. Splunk and AppDynamics, united as part of Cisco, are driving the future of Observability. We are proud to announce that Splunk has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms.

Cloud repatriation is worthy of consideration for organizations looking to address security concerns, compliance requirements, high cloud costs, and some performance issues. Is cloud repatriation the next big thing? Uh, no. Let’s bust this myth now: No major industry sources are reporting that there’s a huge trend toward cloud repatriation.

Forrester Consulting conducted a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) for Cisco Full-Stack Observability (FSO) customers. Speaking with Cisco FSO customers, from IT managers to DevOps professionals, Forrester Consulting concludes that Cisco FSO solutions provide real value.

Our unified observability initiative enables a seamless experience across AppDynamics and Splunk. The first unified observability integrations include SSO and contextual deep linking, allowing users to quickly and intuitively navigate between AppDynamics and Splunk throughout the hybrid troubleshooting workflow. This dramatically improves operational productivity, accelerates mean time to detect (MTTD), and reduces time to remediation (MTTR).