Update on Cisco and Splunk Observability, Better Together

Eight weeks. When someone asks me about the synergies of Cisco + Splunk with regards to full-stack observability, I think about how much we’ve accomplished in just eight weeks.

Eight weeks since the close of the acquisition, our teams have already come together to jointly develop, and will deliver, a new capability for enabling observability across the entire digital footprint for both Cisco and Splunk customers. 

The teams have been on a tear bringing AppDynamics into the Splunk business unit to build a new set of integrations across our shared observability portfolios and land on a combined vision and roadmap for full-stack observability that will provide a comprehensive and cohesive experience for our shared customers.

Real progress, real value, real fast. That kind of speed can only be achieved if there’s a true fit in capabilities, culture, and a shared purpose. We have all of that and momentum, too. 

We will continue that momentum by announcing a number of new observability innovations and integrations across the combined portfolio in the coming weeks at both Cisco Live and Splunk .conf. Those new capabilities reflect the continued journey we are on with our observability customers towards building a fully integrated product portfolio, bringing full-stack observability to the entire enterprise. Full-stack observability means unlocking unified visibility across any environment and any stack — spanning the network, infrastructure, monoliths to microservices, homegrown and third-party apps running in any cloud or on-prem — coupled with powerful real-time analytics for faster detection and investigation of issues based on their actual impact to your business.

With Cisco’s unparalleled visibility into the network and APM use cases spanning three-tier architectures, on-prem, and hybrid environments, coupled with Splunk’s industry-defining log analytics and best-in-class cloud native observability, our customers can instrument their entire digital footprint and minimize blind spots. Customers can go beyond basic app and infrastructure health to understanding how performance problems impact KPIs that matter to their business and take action to optimize relative to those KPIs. 

Customers get unified visibility across:

• Owned and unowned networks: Monitor and optimize application and user experiences across the entire call stack inclusive of public and private network routes and across multiple cloud service providers. 
• Traditional, multi-tier and cloud native applications: Improve operational efficiency and get to accurate root causes faster by using common data and workflows to help ensure reliability across tech stacks. 
• On-prem, hybrid and multi-cloud: Solve complex, cascading problems faster by providing one place for your network operations, IT Ops, and Engineering teams to see across workloads and assets that run in any cloud or on-prem, with a consolidated and consistent toolset. 

The result? Everyone can benefit from observability no matter where they are on their cloud and application modernization journey. Your ITOps and engineering teams will be able to confidently see across their entire digital footprint and standardize their observability practice on one solution.

There are three pillars guiding our integration roadmap. 

The first is integrating logs from Splunk Platform with Cisco AppDynamics and Splunk Observability Cloud for faster, in-context troubleshooting across on-prem and hybrid environments. This integration combines the power of Splunk and Cisco AppDynamics to enable both SaaS and on-prem customers to centralize logs and analyze them in context. With this integration, ITOps and engineering teams will be able to view multiple telemetry types for their traditional environments in a single interface, to perform in-context troubleshooting for three-tier and microservices-based applications, and will have access to a consistent AI-assisted user experience, no matter where a user starts in our portfolio.

The second pillar is working to deliver a unified experience across AppDynamics and Splunk Observability Cloud with a common look and feel. Cisco has access to an incredible volume of data across network devices, hosts and endpoints. Combined with Splunk’s unique ability to collect telemetry data in any format, along with a way of interacting with AI assistants across Cisco products, a common user experience will result in an integrated troubleshooting experience in any environment, whether traditional or cloud-native.

Lastly, we are integrating application performance and business transaction metrics as well as alerts from Cisco AppDynamics into Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI), to reduce alert noise and enable end-to-end visibility of IT health correlated with business KPIs. Furthermore, by integrating Cisco AIOps with Splunk IT Service Intelligence, alerts and events from Cisco networking devices and infrastructure can be correlated alongside the broader IT estate, for more accurate in-context troubleshooting inclusive of network signals.

I highly encourage you to attend, view or follow the announcements coming up at Cisco Live next week, along with those at .conf24 the week after that. You’ll notice how full-stack observability for all environments (on-prem, hybrid, multi-cloud) will be front and center in almost all of the discussions regarding the nexus of network connectivity, security and resilience.

Together, Cisco and Splunk will offer unparalleled visibility across networks, infrastructure and applications to better protect our customers' physical and digital worlds against downtime, fraud, compliance risks and other forms of disruptions.

The future is now; all of this is happening right now. We are moving quickly to bring better integration and new innovations to you. Expect a steady cadence of announcements of new full-stack observability innovations in the coming months as we continue our momentum. Together, Cisco and Splunk are excited about the amazing digital experiences we plan to deliver for you, your team members, and your customers. 

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