Cisco announced a new virtual appliance for its AppDynamics On-Premises application monitoring offering, enabling customers to use a hosted, AI-driven monitoring solution for anomaly detection and root cause analysis, application security, and SAP application monitoring.
Cisco also announced AppDynamics Flex, a new licensing model that offers customers the flexibility to choose between hosted and as-a-service (SaaS) monitoring solutions and helps them transition from hosted to SaaS. Although there has been a significant increase in demand for SaaS monitoring solutions in recent years, for many organizations, self-hosted monitoring solutions are still in high demand.
Self-hosted observability, also called user-managed observability, involves an on-premise or cloud-based deployment where the customer retains control over all data and related operations. These needs are typically driven by data localization and sensitive data protection regulations, as well as in non-point-of-presence geographies.
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For companies in industries such as government, finance, manufacturing, healthcare and retail, the option of having leading self-hosted application monitoring solutions ensures they can continue to deliver end-to-end monitoring of their most critical business systems.
Cognition Engine AI solves problems
Improved anomaly detection is achieved by using the Cognition Engine to differentiate anomalies. According to Cisco, the mean time to identification (MTTI) of application performance issues is reduced. Once problems are detected, resolution is accelerated through root cause analysis and automated transaction diagnostics, which continuously review a stream of event snapshots for proactive remediation.
Users can spot and highlight application security vulnerabilities through application context, then use automated risk assessment, combining application intelligence and security, to prioritize their response based on business impact. The addition of Real-time Automated Application Protection (RASP) enables organizations to defend against exploits that target application vulnerabilities.
Resiliency for the SAP ecosystem
Customers can ensure service availability and performance with comprehensive observability for on-premises and non-SAP SAP environments, providing insights to resolve performance issues before they impact productivity. Cisco builds resiliency into the SAP landscape by improving application performance through AI-driven intelligence for the Java stack, enabling SAP developers and BASIS administrators to maintain service availability, maintain performance, and detect SAP-related security vulnerabilities.
In addition to on-premises deployments, customers can manage their own visibility deployments in AWS or Microsoft Azure using Amazon Machine Instance (AMI) or virtual hard disk (VHD) images of the virtual appliance. This is useful when the SaaS instance is not available in the country where a sensitive workload needs to be monitored, or when the customer wants to maintain full control of the monitoring solution.