OPCFSO - Operationalizing Cisco Full-Stack Observability with AppDynamics, ThousandEyes, and Intersight

Cisco Full-Stack Observability gives you a unified view of resource allocation, infrastructure, and security, allowing you to fine-tune an application ecosystem to deliver the best possible application experience while keeping key performance indicators (KPI) in these areas.

This course covers the key aspects of AppDynamics, Intersight Workload Optimizer and ThousandEyes and how they are integrated to provide FSO. You will learn the architecture and features of the individual products and then incorporate them using hands-on labs to solve common customer use cases.

Module 1: Introduction to Cisco Full Stack Observability

• Application landscape complexity and digital transformation
• Cisco FSO functional architecture
• Teams and Use Cases

Module 2: Cisco Full Stack Observability Foundational Products

• From Visibility to App Performance, Optimization and Security
• Getting Started with AppDynamics Architecture and Features
• Getting Started with Intersight Architecture and Features
• Getting Started with ThousandEyes Architecture and Features
• Product integrations and API

Module 3: Hybrid Application Monitoring for AppOps

• Aligning application performance and user experience to business outcomes with AppDynamics
• Optimize digital experience with AppD and proactive diagnosis
• Linking IT to business initiatives by qualifying User Experience impact
• Correlating app infrastructure and performance insights

Module 4: Distributed Application Monitoring for DevOps

• Monitoring performance of cloud-native distributed applications with AppDynamics
• Identifying infrastructure-related issues across hybrid cloud environments
• Driving agility and optimizing hybrid cloud resources

Module 5: Application Security for AppOps / DevOps and SecOps with Cisco Secure Application

• Correlating security to business impact
• Vulnerability lifecycle management across App and Security teams
• Threat detection and app protection in real time
• Shared security insights for collaboration

Module 6: Hybrid Cost Optimization for InfraOps with Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer

• Balancing utilization between public and on-prem resources
• Eliminating cloud overprovisioning for app performance
• Preventing underutilized on-prem resources

Module 7: Application Resource Optimization with Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer and AppDynamics

• Relating infrastructure resourcing decisions and optimization to end-user experience
• Correlating application performance data with infrastructure health
• Application-aware infrastructure optimization for on-prem and cloud

Module 8: Application Resource Optimization with Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer and Intersight Infrastructure Service

• Aligning workloads to lowest cost infrastructure options across complex environments
• Balancing Performance and Cost
• Preventing resource management performance issues

Module 9: Application Dependency Monitoring for NetOps with Cisco ThousandEyes

• Understanding how external network dependencies affect user experience
• Correlating insights from networking and routing data
• Visualizing comprehensive third-party dependencies
• Application dependency monitoring with Internet Insights
• Use Cases
• Selecting ISP based on Internet Insights
• Application analysis based on Internet Insights

Module 10: Customer Digital Experience Monitoring with AppDynamics and ThousandEyes

• Providing a comprehensive unified view of digital experience
• Application, hybrid cloud, and internet performance data visibility
• Correlating App performance to internet performance data
• Unified workflows and navigation

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 ARM and APM concepts
• Basic understanding of cloud-native and distributed applications

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

• Field Engineers
• Solutions Architects
• Systems Engineers
• Systems Administrators