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Troubleshooting in Complex Environments with Splunk and Cisco
Observability Challenges
- Scattered visibility across various components (logs, metrics, traces, networking, applications, third-party frameworks, databases, cloud services)
- Difficulty finding the root cause of issues due to the complexity of modern applications
- Loss of business context in observability tools, focusing on infrastructure/application metrics instead of business impact
- Need to go beyond basic infrastructure and application metrics to understand the business impact
Splunk's Approach to Observability
- Observability must cover multiple dimensions (metadata, attributes) to provide full visibility
- Need to observe the entire estate - legacy applications, cloud-native apps, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments
- Importance of network monitoring to understand the complete user experience
Splunk's Observability Vision
- Ensure the resilience of digital systems and reduce human toil by enabling software to identify problems, find root causes, and take corrective action
- Leverage AI/ML to automate observability tasks and provide smart alerting based on business context
Splunk Observability Cloud Demo
- Detecting issues in the payment service using the service map, tag spotlight, and log analysis
- Utilizing the AI assistant to quickly identify the problem and root cause (invalid API token in version 35.010)
- Seamless transition between different observability data sources (APM, infrastructure, logs)
Splunk and Cisco Integration
- Combining Splunk's cloud-native observability and Cisco's on-premises APM (App Dynamics) capabilities
- Integrating security and observability data to provide a holistic view of business impact and risk
- Commitment to open standards like OpenTelemetry for vendor-neutral data collection and analysis
Key Benefits of Splunk and Cisco Observability
- Unified visibility across all environments and stacks
- Earlier detection and investigation of business-impacting issues
- Better control over data and costs through open standards and flexible data processing