Human beings can put their progress so far down to many unique factors, but one which contributed more to it than the rest was our willingness to improve under all circumstances. This unwavering commitment towards getting better, no matter the situation, has brought the world some huge milestones, with technology emerging as a major member of the stated group. The reason why we hold technology in such a high regard is, by and large, predicated upon its skill-set, which ushered us towards a reality that nobody could have ever imagined otherwise. Nevertheless, if we look beyond the surface for one hot second, it will become abundantly clear how the whole runner was also very much inspired from the way we applied those skills across a real world environment. The latter component, in fact, did a lot to give the creation a spectrum-wide presence, and as a result, initiated a full-blown tech revolution. Of course, the next thing this revolution did was to scale up the human experience through some outright unique avenues, but even after achieving a feat so notable, technology will somehow continue to bring forth the right goods. The same has turned more and more evident in recent times, and assuming one new IT-themed development ends up with the desired impact, it will only put that trend on a higher pedestal moving forward.
Cisco has officially released a set of new innovations on its observability platform that are all designed to help you safely achieve a performant user and application experience. According to certain reports, these innovations begin from new a Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) capability, which packs together Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Session Replay modules to generate deep insights into browser and mobile applications performance, and efficient resolution of session-level issues. Available for both hybrid and outright cloud environments, the functionality further banks upon its integration with Cisco ThousandEyes and Cisco Accedian to let your applications and network teams access insights regarding the kind of service delivery that is required. This information helps the stated teams enormously in identifying whether the root cause of impacted digital experience is the application, network, or cloud infrastructure. Next up, we must get into Cisco’s pledge to provide observability for Kubernetes workloads using a powerful, and yet lightweight Linux kernel utility and extended Berkeley Packet Filters (eBPF). The idea behind doing so was to help operators gain granular visibility into network activity, resource utilization, application dependencies and misconfigurations impacting network performance. Making the feature even more significant is how you can do it all without having to go through multiple tools, enter into cross-team collaboration, or conduct manual dependency mapping. Then, there is the prospect of a unified observability experience which will pave the way for more enhanced application insights. Such a mechanism brings newer capabilities across the company’s broader portfolio, covering products like Cisco AppDynamics, and the Cisco Observability Platform. Anyways, the feature will effectively use a single account and shared context to provide operators stuff with like Log Analytics to search with context and improve log storage; and Core Web Vitals to give front-end application owners tho golden signals that will keep their web pages from being de-ranked for poor user experience. The new innovations also have something in the context of raging GenAI technology. You see, the company’s observability platform, from here onwards, will offer a natural language interface for troubleshooting, allowing users to use conversational dialogues instead of a structured query language to get the solution they seek. This can simplify the picture enough to automatically generate higher productivity at an organizational level.
“These latest innovations further boost the core capabilities of the Cisco Observability Platform, empowering our customers with better visibility, insights and actions across domains than ever before,” said Ronak Desai, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco AppDynamics and Full-Stack Observability. “Cisco is uniquely positioned to deliver all the benefits of observability in a unified platform to support our customers’ digital ecosystems.”
Hold on, we still have a few bits left to unpack, considering we still haven’t discussed the brand-new Cisco AIOps application, which puts together a more straightforward mechanism for you to conduct your real-time business health monitoring. Alongside that, the application, by a great degree, reduces noise from events and alerts to automate IT processes and keep operations teams productive and responsive. Not just that, it also unifies data from Cisco AppDynamics, Cisco ThousandEyes, Cisco DNA Center, VMWare, Zabbix and ServiceNow (ITSM, ITOM and CMDB). If there was a still liver of doubt left, then we only have to look at CiscoAlOps connection with the company’s observability platform, a connection that gives it another capability in the form of being able to deliver dynamic thresholds-based alerts on metrics, events, and multiple anomaly-detection approaches. Joining the same is a new Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Observability feature. In particular, DSPM will work next to Cisco’s Business Risk Observability solution to present in front of real-time and automated data discovery, classification, policy definition, and compliance visibility for sensitive data, while simultaneously helping you visualize and prioritize attack surface.
To round up the highlights, Cisco made a notable push towards its vision of a full-fledged observability ecosystem, made from several partner modules stretching across categories like AIOps, MLOps, networking, infrastructure observability, and business insights. Under the development in question, the company has introduced new partner modules, such as Aporia for machine learning, CloudFabrix for asset intelligence, operational intelligence, and infrastructure observability, along with Komodor for Kubernetes change management. Apart from that, Cisco has also brought modules like Perform IT for AS400 Monitoring and I4Cube business performance, and SoftServe for operational intelligence in regards to Oilfields.
