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Cisco Cloud Observability is Cisco’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) product for observing, securing, and optimizing large, managed Kubernetes deployments on public clouds (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Red Hat OpenShift). It provides real-time observability across your entire technology stack: applications, software-defined compute, storage, services, network, and other infrastructure, through the collection and correlation of metrics, events, logs, and traces (MELT). Cisco Cloud Observability is powered by the Cisco Observability Platform, making it extensible to add new capabilities to meet a broad scope and future observability needs.

Cisco Cloud Observability Features

Cisco Cloud Observability visualizes and correlates metrics, events, logs, and traces (MELT) data so you can identify, triage, and troubleshoot problems and analyze performance issues. Additional features include:

  • Observability for cloud-native architectures at scale.

  • Correlated full-stack context across domains and data types.

  • OpenTelemetry-based extensibility.

What is the Cisco Observability Platform?

The Cisco Observability Platform is an open, extensible, API-driven platform that empowers a new observability ecosystem and delivers impactful business insights. It is a unified platform built on OpenTelemetry (an open-source project by CNCF) and anchored on metrics, events, logs, and traces (MELT), enabling extensibility from queries to data models with a composable UI framework.

Cisco Observability Platform modules are add-on solutions that provide capabilities to an application such as Cisco Cloud Observability  with additional features or functionalities to extend the application's functionality or enhance the user experience. See the Cisco Observability Platform and Extend Cisco Cloud Observability.

How Is Cisco Cloud Observability Different from AppDynamics Application Performance Management (APM)?

Cisco Cloud Observability is a new product within the broader Splunk AppDynamics product suite. It's separate from Splunk AppDynamics Application Performance Management. The following sections highlight some differences between the two products.

Target Audience and Infrastructure

Cisco Cloud Observability and Splunk AppDynamics APM are designed for different types of deployments and serve different audiences, as this table summarizes:

Cisco Cloud Observability

Splunk AppDynamics APM

DevOps, Development, Cloud Operations, and Site Reliability Engineers use Cisco Cloud Observability to:

  • Observe cloud-native microservices deployed on multiple public Kubernetes clusters.
  • Observe the full stack, including relationships and interdependencies, using an extensible topology.
  • Monitor business transactions.
  • Receive MELT data from OpenTelemetry-compatible collectors.

IT Operations Engineers, DevOps, Developers, and Security Engineers use Splunk AppDynamics APM to:

  • Monitor microservices deployed on hybrid infrastructures.
  • Monitor business transactions.
  • Perform troubleshooting with code-level visibility and active polling with synthetics

Deployment

For information about deployment for Cisco Cloud Observability, see Cisco Observability Platform.

Device Support

The Cisco Cloud Observability web interface is available only on desktop-based browsers. Support is unavailable for mobile devices at this time.

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