Cisco Cloud Observability provides end-to-end visibility into the health and performance of the applications running in your Kubernetes, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud environments.

Cisco Cloud Observability can process OpenTelemetry™ traces and spans from any OpenTelemetry-supported language, enabling you to:

  • Automatically discover application topology and how components in the application environment work together to fulfill key business transactions for its users.  
  • Automatically discover business transactions from traces and correlate them to application and infrastructure health issues to prioritize troubleshooting through a business lens.
    • Measure end-to-end business transaction performance, along with the health of individual application and infrastructure nodes.
    • Receive alerts based on custom or built-in health rules, including rules against dynamic performance baselines that alert you to issues in the context of business transactions.
    • Create user-defined business transactions to monitor business transactions that are not automatically detected. 
  • Observe and navigate between entities to better identify and troubleshoot issues.
    • Gain full-stack visibility of all your cloud native environments, from key business transactions to cloud infrastructure.
    • Observe the full stack, including relationships and interdependencies, using an extensible topology.
    • Troubleshoot problems such as slow response times and application errors. 
  • Explore cross-domain metrics, events, logs, traces (MELT) data.

Get Started

Monitor Applications Running in Kubernetes or Cloud Environments

  1. Follow the workflows on Monitor Applications in Kubernetes or Monitor Applications in Cloud Environments.
  2. Once you have configured application performance monitoring, you can monitor your applications using the Cisco Cloud Observability application model. In Cisco Cloud Observability, APM entities such as services, business transactions, traces, and spans are used to present and organize performance information about your application environment. To learn more, see Application Performance Monitoring Entities.

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