As enterprise IT organizations migrate to multi-cloud and cloud native architectures, the need for end-to-end visibility across the technology stack has become critically important. Cloud-based applications, containers, multiple cloud environments and software-defined infrastructure have dramatically heightened the managerial complexity of the fast-moving, global environments required to deliver the best digital experience for retail and business […]

Updated December 22, 2021 On December 9, 2021, a critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in the Apache Log4j Java logging library affecting all Log4j 2 versions earlier than 2.15.0 was disclosed. On December 14, 2021, another critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-45046) in the same library was disclosed. It affects certain Log4j use cases in versions 2.15.0 and earlier. On December 17, 2021, a […]

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Competency Program validates and promotes AWS partners with deep industry experience and expertise. The recently updated AWS Migration and Modernization Competency enables customers to easily and confidently engage highly specialized AWS Partners to help modernize their applications — either before or after they move to AWS. This program assumes the […]

AppDynamics and Amazon Web Services (AWS) continue to collaborate to ensure AWS customers can maintain the superior level of full-stack observability they need for their cloud native and hybrid cloud applications running on AWS. To this end, we’re pleased to announce AppDynamics support for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP), providing the ability to ingest […]

It’s no secret. In the digital-first climate that we live in, application experience determines whether customers are won and retained. As we discovered while conducting research for our latest App Attention Index report, 68% of people actually believe it’s disrespectful for brands to offer a poor digital experience — and they will take their business […]

Fifteen years ago, my team of engineers and I consolidated a Fortune 100 company’s 27 call centers into one with the goal of delivering consistently superior customer service while gaining access to data and insights that would provide visibility into what was really going on behind the curtain. This was not an easy feat. It […]

In today’s digitally transformed world, the ability to observe applications and correlate them to infrastructure, security tools and networks across an enterprise’s entire ecosystem is essential. Technologists are innovating and evolving their IT stacks faster than ever before to keep pace with user demands, adopting leading-edge, agile cloud platforms like Azure Spring Cloud that allow […]

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, Cisco 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 […]