New Smart Agent for Cisco AppDynamics
Dramatically Simplifies the Installation, Configuration and Upgrade
of Application and Infrastructure Agents.
News Summary:
- Simplifies full-stack application instrumentation and
centralized agent lifecycle management.
- Centrally manages all deployed agents using intelligent user
interface-driven automation, dramatically reducing the need for
time-consuming, manual intervention.
- Increases operational efficiency, improves software compliance
and enables customers to shorten time-to-value to gain full-stack
observability insights, allowing IT teams to focus less on agent
management, and more on innovation
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JOSE, Calif., Jan. 24,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today
launched Smart Agent for Cisco AppDynamics, enabling agent
lifecycle management, dramatically simplifying application
instrumentation for full-stack observability through intelligent
agent automation and management, and helping customers onboard new
applications faster. Customers can identify out-of-date agents and
upgrade them in minutes with an easy-to-use centralized agent
management user interface.
As applications become more distributed, modular and scalable,
technologists find themselves managing an explosion in the number
of agents. While in many companies, the operations teams are
dealing with agents in the tens of thousands, those at large
enterprises often handle hundreds of thousands of agents, depending
on the number and type of applications being observed. Due to the
sheer volume of agents — and the time-consuming and complex nature
of updating them — many organizations fail to upgrade to the latest
versions in a timely fashion. This leaves them with old and
unsupported agents, without the latest functionality, and at risk
from security vulnerabilities that have been mitigated in the most
recent agent releases.
IT infrastructure and operations teams require powerful insights
to help cut through this increasing complexity, and with Smart
Agent for Cisco AppDynamics, customers can:
- Simplify the process of installing and upgrading
agents: New UI-driven process intelligently automates the
installation and upgrade of agents, simplifying the process to just
a few clicks. This allows customers to upgrade multiple agents at
one time, freeing up resources and talent to focus on the
management of application performance.
- Access new capabilities faster with push-button
upgrades: Smart Agent makes it easy to maintain compliance
and upgrade agents on a regular basis, ensuring customers have the
latest versions and access to new functionality, while minimizing
risk of security vulnerabilities. Smart Agent can roll-back or
upgrade agents at scale with speed and agility, allowing operations
teams to perform these tasks through the UI rather than manual
actions on each host.
- Gain valuable application performance and business insights
at speed: Complicated process discovery and time-consuming
agent deployments can make it challenging to obtain the visibility
and insight into application performance that is needed to deliver
optimal user experience and business outcomes. Smart Agent
automates the new application instrumentation process with a single
agent install that discovers all the processes running on the host,
and automatically instruments the full-stack with the agents
needed, as governed by a company's own policies. Smart Agent
auto-discovery and auto-deployment enables customers to start
collecting data and visualize application topography in minutes
instead of days.
"Cisco is committed to using automation and intelligence to give
time back to our customers, helping them to reduce the stresses and
inefficiencies caused by ever-increasingly complex technology
environments," said Ronak Desai,
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco AppDynamics and
Full-Stack Observability. "Smart Agent will alleviate that
pressure, allowing IT teams to focus less on agent management and
more on innovation."
"Keeping all application performance monitoring agents updated
with the latest versions can be difficult, especially in
large-scale applications. We are eagerly looking forward to using
Smart Agent for Cisco AppDynamics to simplify this process,
allowing us to be more responsive and take advantage of new
agent-based features as they are released," said Brad Johns, Manager, Solutions Architecture,
Sabre.
Availability
Smart Agent for Cisco AppDynamics is now generally available.
Customers can visit our Smart Agent webpage for more information or
schedule a time to speak with us. The auto-deployment functionality
will be generally available in CYQ2 2024.
Register here for the Smart Agent for Cisco AppDynamics webinar
on February 14 to learn
more.
Additional Resources
- Cisco Launches Smart Agent Blog
- Smart Agent Product Blog
- Cisco Newsroom
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