Cisco Transforms Application Instrumentation with Smart Agent for Cisco AppDynamics
Cisco launched Smart Agent for Cisco AppDynamics,
enabling agent lifecycle management, dramatically simplifying application
instrumentation for full-stack observability through intelligent agent
automation and management, and helping customers onboard new applications
faster. Customers can identify out-of-date agents and upgrade them in minutes
with an easy-to-use centralized agent management user interface.
As applications become more distributed, modular
and scalable, technologists find themselves managing an explosion in the number
of agents. While in many companies, the operations teams are dealing with
agents in the tens of thousands, those at large enterprises often handle
hundreds of thousands of agents, depending on the number and type of
applications being observed. Due to the sheer volume of agents — and the
time-consuming and complex nature of updating them — many organizations fail to
upgrade to the latest versions in a timely fashion. This leaves them with old
and unsupported agents, without the latest functionality, and at risk from
security vulnerabilities that have been mitigated in the most recent agent
releases.
IT infrastructure and operations teams require
powerful insights to help cut through this increasing complexity, and with
Smart Agent for Cisco AppDynamics, customers can:
· Simplify the process of installing and upgrading
agents: New UI-driven process intelligently
automates the installation and upgrade of agents, simplifying the process to
just a few clicks. This allows customers to upgrade multiple agents at one
time, freeing up resources and talent to focus on the management of application
performance.
· Access new capabilities faster with push-button
upgrades: Smart Agent makes it easy to
maintain compliance and upgrade agents on a regular basis, ensuring customers
have the latest versions and access to new functionality, while minimizing risk
of security vulnerabilities. Smart Agent can roll-back or upgrade agents at
scale with speed and agility, allowing operations teams to perform these tasks
through the UI rather than manual actions on each host.
· Gain valuable application performance and business
insights at speed: Complicated process discovery and
time-consuming agent deployments can make it challenging to obtain the
visibility and insight into application performance that is needed to deliver
optimal user experience and business outcomes. Smart Agent automates the new
application instrumentation process with a single agent install that discovers
all the processes running on the host, and automatically instruments the
full-stack with the agents needed, as governed by a company’s own policies.
Smart Agent auto-discovery and auto-deployment enables customers to start
collecting data and visualize application topography in minutes instead of
days.
“Cisco is committed to using automation and
intelligence to give time back to our customers, helping them to reduce the
stresses and inefficiencies caused by ever-increasingly complex technology
environments,” said Ronak Desai, Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Cisco AppDynamics and Full-Stack Observability. “Smart Agent will alleviate
that pressure, allowing IT teams to focus less on agent management and more on
innovation.”
“Keeping all application performance monitoring
agents updated with the latest versions can be difficult, especially in
large-scale applications. We are eagerly looking forward to using Smart Agent
for Cisco AppDynamics to simplify this process, allowing us to be more
responsive and take advantage of new agent-based features as they are
released,” said Brad Johns, Manager, Solutions Architecture, Sabre.
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