In a bid to meet customer demand, businesses today are innovating and scaling in faster, more cost-effective ways than ever before. But with this new scale and efficiency also comes greater operational complexity, reducing visibility across the entire technology stack. As a result, most organizations don’t fully understand the connection between the changes they make […]

“Technology is easy, it’s people who are hard,” says Red Hat technology evangelist Gordon Haff. That certainly seemed to be the case for organizations undertaking a DevOps transformation. Here are three key issues to focus on.  1) You May Fail  Just how difficult is a DevOps transformation? Seventy-five percent of DevOps initiatives through 2020 will […]

When a U.S. company experiences an application outage, the average cost to the business is well over $400,000. So it makes sense that both IT and business leaders would do everything in their power to avoid such costly outages. Yet, in a recent global survey of more than 6,000 IT leaders, 97% of respondents reported that their organization […]

We have seen tremendous demand for our cloud expertise and end-to-end application performance monitoring solution for AWS that uniquely provides holistic visibility into the entire application architecture. In addition to driving sales in new regions across Europe and Asia, our AWS Marketplace business achieved over 300 percent growth with eight times more transactions this year over […]

Serverless computing burst onto the cloud scene with the promise of transforming cloud operating models, taking the pay-as-you-go economics of the cloud to their logical extreme with consumption-based billing. Simply put, if your code doesn’t run, you don’t pay. AWS Lambda, Amazon’s serverless compute offering, has seen explosive growth since its launch in 2014. The […]

AppDynamics monitoring for Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) provides a simplified view into PCF infrastructure, enabling operators to proactively address issues that impact the performance of the platform and the apps running on it. The Risk of Information Overload Knowing what to monitor in a PCF deployment can be a challenge. PCF leverages a number of […]

It’s very challenging for companies today to undergo digital transformation without interrupting the daily flow of business. And yet the adoption of new digital technologies is required to keep pace with new, more nimble competitors in every marketplace. Like it or not, the modern consumer expects digital interactions. And if these interactions are not seamless, […]

In June 2019, AppDynamics joined a group of 60+ companies whose services are listed as “in process” on the FedRAMP federal marketplace. With FedRAMP, we now have an opportunity to offer our federal customers a curated set of security controls aligned with industry-recognized NIST standards.  “Building this FedRAMP environment for our SaaS fleet demonstrates the […]

AppDynamics Cognition Engine uses sophisticated machine learning to automate anomaly detection and significantly reduce MTTR for fast root-cause analysis. In this post, we answer some of your most frequently asked questions about it.   Is Cognition Engine available for SaaS and on-premises environments?   Currently it’s available for SaaS only, but we’re working hard to […]

When we talk about AppDynamics’ powerful Cognition Engine, we’re talking about the automatic detection of anomalies in business transactions. Cognition Engine enables you to pinpoint deviating application performance, isolate resource problems, and respond with automated actions. By leveraging a variety of specialized machine learning (ML) models, AppDynamics can detect anomalies in real time and at […]