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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

What is your business’s standard protocol when a security breach occurs? When a threat is detected, what happens next? How does your organization practice security testing? If you can’t answer these questions easily, your security posture could probably use some improvements.   What is your security posture and why does it matter? Simply put, your […]

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 […]

Digital transformation is happening all around us. Businesses across the globe are implementing cutting edge digital services to attract new customers and maintain their current base. With the rise of ecommerce, remote capabilities, and SaaS, today’s digital landscape makes every business a technology company. Organizations today house huge volumes of data within an application. As […]

As application health continues to become more automated, APM is going beyond the boundaries of human capability. Now, administrators can utilize the power of AI in root cause analysis to monitor the performance of applications 24/7. [Learn more about how AI can help you deliver a flawless user experience with Cognition Engine.] What is root […]

Looking to modernize your approach to application development? If the answer is yes, then it’s more than likely you’ll eventually have to decide between two different approaches you’ve probably heard a lot about: DevOps and DevSecOps. While the two sound extremely similar, there are critical differences that will impact IT and business efficiency, as well […]

In today’s complex, distributed environments, quickly and accurately identifying the source of issues remains a massive technological and operational challenge. Enterprises require a more pervasive visibility across their ever-expanding application landscapes — what we now call observability — to monitor not just their own front- and back-end performance but also identify root causes in realms […]