Splunk AppDynamics continues to innovate to provide better visibility on the network

Through Splunk’s observability portfolio, organizations have richer insights to monitor critical issues, such as disrupted user transactions and supply chain outages, and take quick and accurate corrective actions to enhance digital resilience.

Splunk continues to expand its observability portfolio with innovations to empower organizations. Since the acquisition by Cisco, the cybersecurity and observability leader has enabled organizations to have more options, especially in having a unified visibility across their entire IT environment.

One of the biggest challenges organizations face is dealing with scattered visibility across their tech stack. This leads to a lack of insights. According to Simon Davies, Senior Vice President and General Manager in APAC for Splunk, the Splunk’s strength lies in its capability to take data from any source and bring it together at almost any velocity.

“Not many tools and platforms can do this. We are known for security and capability outcomes. It’s how organizations use data to solve problems and deliver data and resilience. And I believe Cisco and Splunk can do a lot more for organization especially since the tools are changing dramatically,” said Davies.

For example, in data centers, Davies said the network is very procedural. Today, most of these have been replaced with AI. For customers, Davies mentioned that firewall is only half of total ingestion,

“In security, we want to assume the lateral movement of the threat. A firewall only sees a small sample network. This is where opportunity lies. We can solve it with a shared believed in power of distributed and federated analytics through Splunk,” added Davies.

Simply put, with these observability innovations, Splunk customers have access to smarter insights and automation for guided troubleshooting, deeper visibility into Kubernetes environments and a holistic user experience. Through Splunk’s observability portfolio, organizations have richer insights to monitor critical issues, such as disrupted user transactions and supply chain outages, and take quick and accurate corrective actions to enhance digital resilience.

At Cisco Live Las Vegas earlier is year, Splunk announced that Cisco AppDynamics will be a part of the Splunk Observability portfolio and will be known as Splunk AppDynamics. This combination provides organizations with deeper business context, and broader coverage across both three-tier and microservices environments, for unified visibility across any environment and any stack.

At Cisco Live APJ, Splunk announced more innovations have been added to enhance the unified observability experience. This includes improved integration so that customers get a more frictionless experience and actionable insights for faster troubleshooting across their entire environment. Key features include general availability of Single Sign-On (SSO) and Deep Linking between Splunk Cloud and Splunk AppDynamics to improve operational efficiency and streamline troubleshooting workflows. Customers will also get a more cohesive troubleshooting experience across Splunk AppDynamics and Splunk Observability Cloud.

“Splunk AppDynamics brings capabilities together into a single experience and platform. It becomes more than a common interface on tool and capable of unlocking more value and outcomes for customers. This includes giving insights to tools be it AppDymanics or Splunk cloud. AppDynamics is also investing to support Splunk. Customers want to live in hybrid world. They have heritage applications and new cloud-based applications with hybrid infrastructure in between. We can help with this,” explained Davies.

Splunk has also added AI enhancements to the Splunk Observability Cloud. This includes providing capabilities for a more intuitive understanding of common problems across applications and end-user experience, facilitating faster troubleshooting and improving incident resolution. Apart from that, Splunk will also provide Infrastructure Monitoring with Kubernetes Proactive Troubleshooting. This new feature provides ITOps and engineering teams with improved drill-down experiences, simplified navigation and new list views for the Kubernetes navigator, to speed up MTTR and maintain optimal performance across their Kubernetes environments.

Interestingly, Splunk’s success since the acquisition by Cisco was also highlighted by Chuck Robbins, Cisco CEO. During their recent earnings call, Robbins said Cisco’s security segment rose a whopping 100% year over year with revenues of US$2.02 billion, which was attributed to the company's renewed security strategy and product pipeline, with offerings such as zero trust and extended detection and response (XDR), Secure Access and Multi-cloud Defense.