Cisco Melds ThousandEyes、フルスタックの可観測性のためのAppDynamics

シスコは本日、サービスとしてのソフトウェア（SaaS）、インターネット、およびクラウドサービスの採用を妨げる死角をなくすことを約束するフルスタックの可観測性プラットフォームを発表しました。Cisco today unveiled a full-stack observability platform that promises to eliminate blind spots holding up the adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS), internet, and cloud services. The platform pairs the network visibility services offered by ThousandEyes with application performance monitoring capabilities from AppDynamics. Cisco acquired ThousandEyes last year for $1 billion, and AppDynamics for $3.7 billion in 2017. According to Cisco, the combined offering will enable network and development operations teams to accelerate root cause analysis. This is critical, the vendor claims, as organizations move to adopt SaaS and cloud-based services and become increasingly reliant on networks and services that are outside their control. “Many times the application experience that your customers are facing is synonymous with your corporate brand experience,” Joe Vaccaro, VP of product at ThousandEyes, said. The problem, he explained, is traffic now has to traverse a complex digital supply chain of content delivery networks, domain name system providers, across various networks, and ultimately the cloud infrastructure where the application is increasingly being delivered as a microservice. “Being able to then understand that complete digital supply chain is more and more important to ensuring a great digital experience,” Vaccaro added, noting that oftentimes what might appear in an application performance monitoring platform as an increase in response time may in fact be the result of a change in network behavior. Cisco’s observability platform is broken out into two core components. The first rolls network and internet performance metrics from ThousandEyes into AppDynamics Dash Studio. This, according to Cisco, provides a common language for network, application, and cloud teams to quickly isolate and resolve issues wherever they may originate. “You can actually pull in network metrics and visibility information with that application and business context,” Ty Amell, CTO of AppDynamics, explained. “Now you can understand, ‘hey, I’ve got a business transaction and this is very impactful for me,’ and understand whether that’s a network issue that is causing that performance degradation or an application issue.” The second component extends native support for ThousandEye’s network monitoring agent to Cisco’s Catalyst 9000-series switches. Previously the agent had to be manually deployed by the customer. Once deployed on the switch, enterprises will be able to monitor network conditions across both the WAN and LAN networks. According to Vaccaro, customers will now be able to enable ThousandEyes’ monitoring capabilities on existing infrastructure with the flick of a switch and gain useful insights into network behavior. Cisco’s full-stack observability platform will be available to joint ThousandEyes and AppDynamics customers or Catalyst 9300 and 9400 switch users beginning in April.