2020 was a roller coaster of a year both inside and outside the tech world. With so many businesses suddenly accelerating their digital transformation plans, the IT landscape has dramatically changed in just a few short months. In order to support this new push, AppDynamics acquired ThousandEyes, a network visibility platform, and added quite a […]

Last week one of the world’s biggest brands suffered a major outage, with its services offline for over six hours. But let’s face facts. Next week another brand will likely be dealing with a similar firestorm. In an era of sky-high expectations for digital experiences and record levels of intolerance for poor performance, a disruption […]

AppDynamics now supports AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) general availability for traces 1.0, enabling our customers to standardize their monitoring and observability telemetry. ADOT is a secure, production-ready, Amazon Web Services (AWS)-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. OpenTelemetry is a vendor-neutral, standard way to collect telemetry data for applications and their supporting infrastructure and services. […]

The market opportunity for full-stack observability continues to grow at breakneck speed as technologists battle on multiple fronts, including keeping pace with rapid digital transformation projects, managing increasing complexity across the IT stack, and filtering overwhelming data noise. Visibility of IT performance and health across the entire IT stack, and the ability to correlate this […]

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to increase demand for premium digital experiences, companies are evolving and introducing modern technologies into their IT architecture on a large scale to keep pace with the competition. The resulting level of complexity and data noise leaves them scrambling to manage a landscape fraught with new challenges and a myriad […]

In the world of modern applications, change is the only constant. Distributed architectures leveraging multi-technology stacks are the norm, and the cloud is a playground for software development and innovation. There is exponential growth in the quantity and quality of software, creating observability challenges for those in charge of software performance, which directly impacts user […]

Businesses are deploying aggressive digital transformation strategies to keep pace in today’s hypercompetitive IT landscape, and their application footprints are exploding exponentially in size and complexity. As a result, monitoring these ecosystems 24/7 from end to end — always a difficult endeavor — has become an even more overwhelming effort for the ITOps teams, DevOps […]

The pandemic has changed our lives immeasurably. While every country has endured a very different journey through the pandemic, and communities have all faced their own unique challenges over the past 18 months, one thing is true for people all over the world; almost all of our normal routines and behaviors were suddenly put on […]

One of the best known examples of serverless computing on the market today is functions as a service (FaaS). Around 20% of enterprises are utilizing functions as a service today, and Gartner projects that number to grow to 50% by 2025. Thanks to the elasticity and flexibility offered by FaaS, it’s no wonder that AWS […]

Speed may be the most crucial differentiator in business today. How fast you react to changes in technology and in the market can make or break your path to success. The last year has been incredibly challenging for businesses ramping up their operations around the world: In addition to responding to a global health crisis […]

Thanks to you, our amazing employees, customers and partners, we’ve done it again. For the ninth year, AppDynamics is named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring. It’s not an honor we take for granted, especially in light of the critical role applications have played since the pandemic hit. The unprecedented […]

AppDynamics’ customer Nouveal e-health has been honored as a 2021 CIO 100 Award recipient. The CIO 100 Award program is the most prestigious global award for information technology leaders, and recognizes organizations worldwide that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in IT.  Nouveal e-health is a developer of digital solutions for patient […]

“What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?” Although this question could pertain to a superhero battling a villain, it’s a scenario that IT teams throughout the world are currently facing. The forces of digital transformation that are pushing organizations to modernize, scale, and thrive in a software-centric world are unstoppable. And budgets, […]

As modern organizations rapidly move to the cloud, they face many strategic challenges that can have a massive impact on their ultimate success or failure. And while the reward for a successful cloud adoption is high, it comes with significant risk. We’ve all heard horror stories around cloud adoptions and migrations, and many are asking: […]

Every week it seems like there’s another large-scale security breach making headlines, reminding us how vulnerable we’ve become in the digital age.  The internet — the great democratizer of information — is increasingly forcing organizations to confront its sometimes dark and unintended consequences.  A 2020 PwC survey found that CEOs in North America regard cyber […]