Hybrid App Monitoring
Erin is the Director of Applications and Monitoring and is in the middle of a digital transformation effort that involves a hybrid environment with canary testing and re-factoring into microservices.
These kind of efforts are usually aimed to improve a companies’ bottom line by means of:
- Keeping competition at bay and/or gaining market share
- Containing brand degradation and/or customers’ churn
- Simplifing operations, reducing costs, and accelerating innovation
Current situation
Rapid growth in market share has forced Erin’s team to accelerate Bridge to Possibili-Tea’s digital transformation journey as they move into the cloud.
There are multiple paradigm shifts happening at the same time:
- Moving from monolithic to microservices architecture
- Adopting distributed/hybrid deployments
- Embracing DevOps methodologies
All of these are causing old and new challenges to be looked at through a different set of lenses…
Cisco’s FSO - Performance
Performance assurance has been traditionally driven by a set of siloed sources of information (Metrics, Events, Logs, Traces and KPIs) which require a significant effort for them to be correlated.
With modern architectures this approach is increasingly unsustainable as correlating the information has become exponentially complex with applications spreading across multiple platforms, technologies and vendors.
Finding an easy way to make sense of all this data and act upon it in a timely manner has now become of paramount importance for any business.
Cisco’s Full Stack Observability - Performance has been built to provide exactly that: Automated visibility, insights and actions that minimizes the friction of keeping your applications running at top performance.
Why should Erin care?
Erin is aware that finding and retaining good talent is difficult, especially in a hot market like technology. She now understands that she needs to put mechanisms in place to reduce the burden that performance assurance inflicts on the team.
She needs a solution that effortlessly exposes their performance weaknesses such that minimal intervention from her team is required to reach targets while still innovating at an accelerated pace.
It is clear that the more time it takes to deploy such a solution, the less likely Erin will be able to meet the targets, keep the competition at bay, and retain the talent she needs to succeed.
Next
We’ll walk through some hands-on exercises with AppDynamics to see how it give us deep visibility into the Hybrid Application.