As part of Cisco’s Full Stack Observability (FSO) solution, AppDynamics, ThousandEyes, and Intersight give real-time insights correlated across domains and linked with business context across the entire stack of apps, infrastructure (network and cloud, computing, storage), and security.
Cisco Full-Stack Observability gives you a unified view allowing users to fine-tune an IT ecosystem to deliver the best possible application experience while meeting key performance indicators (KPI) in these areas. This test drive covers key features and usability of Cisco FSO as a holistic solution using hands-on labs to solve common use cases.
Prerequisites:
The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:
- Fundamental knowledge of networking and application delivery concepts
- Familiarity with high-level application performance concepts
- Basic understanding of cloud-native and distributed application concepts
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- Explain the functionality, benefits, and use cases for Cisco FSO
- Understand the roles AppDynamics, ThousandEyes, & Intersight play in FSO
- Explain Application dependency monitoring for NetOps with Cisco ThousandEyes
- Describe how to use Cisco Intersight for cost and application resource optimization
- Describe Application Performance Monitoring with Cisco AppDynamics
Introduction to Cisco Full Stack Observability
- Application landscape complexity and digital transformation
- Cisco FSO foundational products
- Teams and Use Cases
Cisco ThousandEyes Application Dependency Monitoring
- Understanding how external network dependencies affect user experience
- Application dependency monitoring with Internet Insights
- Use Cases – ISP and App analysis
Reduce Infrastructure Costs and Improve Application Performance with Cisco Intersight
- Aligning workloads to lowest cost infrastructure options across complex environments
- Balancing Performance and Cost
- Preventing resource management performance issues
Monitoring and management of modern applications with Cisco AppDynamics
- Balancing utilization between public and on-prem resources
- Eliminating cloud overprovisioning for app performance
- Application performance and business outcomes
Lab Outline:
Labs are designed to assure learners a whole practical experience, through the following practical activities:
- Lab 1: Navigating FSO foundational products, dashboards, and features
- Lab 2: Transaction visualization and analysis in ThousandEyes
- Lab 3: Application performance and cost analysis with Cisco Intersight
- Lab 4: Application Monitoring with AppDynamics
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Field Engineers
- Solutions Architects
- Systems Engineers
- Systems Administrators
- Technical Leadership
- Technical Decision Makers