AppSphere 15 - Monitoring Cloud Native Apps on Pivotal Cloud Foundry with AppDynamics

This deck outlines what needs to be built in terms of data extraction, analytics, and other open source technologies. Finally, we’ll also discuss commercial alternatives and what features and functions are critical when monitoring micro-services based applications. Attendees of this session will walk away with a clear understanding of: -What is changing with software, and why? -What challenges are faced with these changes? -How to overcome these challenges. This deck was originally presented at AppSphere 2015.

Philippe Bedard is the Vice President of SaaS Operations at Halogen Software, a publicly traded company that provides employee engagement and talent management software. Halogen delivers its software globally as a SaaS platform and supports millions of users through high-availability operations. To meet the challenges of delivering high-velocity software updates while maintaining a compliance-driven environment, Halogen implemented AppDynamics to gain visibility into application performance and help reduce troubleshooting times. With AppDynamics, Halogen improved development velocity, shortened mean time to resolution when issues arose, and better supported its market-leading customer experience.

In this service defined world where businesses are powered by software, delivering exceptional end user experience has become the top priority for modern enterprises. DevOps collaboration has become key for enterprises to deliver their services in a lean and agile manner while ensuring the best end-user experience. Entertainment Partners started its journey with AppDynamics APM by monitoring applications in production to solve problems faster and to ensure a stable operating platform; during the last year, they have taken their APM solution past the barrier by using it earlier in their application lifecycle for enabling DevOps collaboration and continuous delivery of their applications. Most importantly, AppDynamics has become a focal “single painted glass” for operationalizing the support lifecycle of our critical services. Join this session and learn from Entertainment Partners as they share the best practices from their journey of starting with APM and then evolving to DevOps with “single painted glass” AppDynamics Solution. This deck was originally presented at AppSphere 2015.

Pearson is the leader in global education and has been going through two large transformations. From print to digital publisher and from a federated to centralized business model. A centralized business model has brought together many different processes, technologies and tech stacks. This created challenges around scalability and stability within our environments and communications to internal and external stakeholders. Pearson presented their story at AppSphere 2015. Learn how AppDynamics helped Pearson prepare for failure by: - Enabling Pearson to be more proactive in our environments by instrumenting our business transactions across multiple complex systems and anticipating problems before our users were affected. - Feeding our AppDynamics data into a Pearson built dashboard for better status and communications to our stakeholders. - How Pearson was able to substantially reduce the number of P1 and P2 incidents over previous high usage time periods. - Tangibly Improved customer experience including NPS score during Back to school timeframe. - Significantly changed end user expectations by significantly reducing our MTTR.

The Container Store uses AppDynamics in their development lifecycle to gain visibility into their test environments and applications, set performance expectations before production deployments, and decrease performance test result reporting times. Some benefits included being able to identify testing requirements and gaps, fine tune alert policies prior to production, and getting results in 20 minutes instead of 5 hours. The presentation provided best practices around continuous monitoring, testing, and collaboration between development, operations, and business teams.

In the last few years demand for mainframe resources have drastically increased due to the adoption Big Data, mobile processing, cloud and virtualization. Linux excels in all these areas and is often the operating system of choice for these rapidly growing workloads. Join us for this informative panel discussion as industry experts come together to discuss new hardware and software capabilities that enables Linux without limits and to provide the speed, scalability and security you need to excel in the application economy For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe

This document discusses AppDynamics' capabilities for monitoring Docker containers: - AppDynamics provides unified monitoring of applications running in Docker containers, allowing visibility into both application and Docker metrics from a single interface. - An extension is available that collects Docker metrics using the Docker Remote API and displays them alongside application data in AppDynamics' dashboards. - A demo environment on GitHub contains an example of an application deployed in Docker containers that can be monitored end-to-end using AppDynamics.

Oceanwide started its AppDynamics journey three years ago and relies heavily on it for its investigations of critical issues. Its usage—a mix of proactive alerting and reactive usage—has allowed Oceanwide to reach high standards of availability. Striving to adopt a DevOps culture, the broader adoption of AppDynamics across the company is a key focus. In this session, we will discuss how to work with developers and QA staff in their adoption of AppDynamics as well as key initiatives that enable them to use the solution as a common language when interacting with the operations team. Key takeaways: o How to promote and nurture the adoption of AppDynamics in developer and QA scrums o Key elements of a successful DevOps cell built around AppDynamics o How to establish AppDynamics as the common language between development, QA, and operations For more information go to: www.appdynamics.com”

The document summarizes the 2015 Automation Hero Awards held by Automic World in Scottsdale, AZ. 24 candidates from around the world submitted examples of how they used Automic in innovative ways to accomplish automation feats across various industries. Community members voted on the submissions. The top 3 winners were: 3rd place went to Nir Cohen for automating Windows agent installation; 2nd place went to Rick Chen for unified scheduling of over 3,000 jobs; and 1st place went to Joel Polster for enabling self-service provisioning of full environments on-demand for testing within 20 minutes.

Running technology is filled with a shiny new object of the day. Some of these technologies are a flash in the pan, while others are transformative. Learn about today's main trends, which are not only changing our infrastructures and applications, but also our organizations and cultures. Today's software systems have become decoupled, often described as microservices, and tend to match organizational and cultural designs. To be agile and decoupled, both the software and the organization must evolve. Analyze some of these new capabilities and why they are becoming critical for today's applications. Key takeaways: o Major reasons and trends driving agility and microservices o How microservices are managed and orchestrated o How microservices change the infrastructure o How this infrastructure should be managed o Which open source technologies (frameworks, governance layers) assist with these new challenges For more information go to: www.appdynamics.com

As companies continue to migrate their applications to the cloud, they need increased levels of infrastructure and application visibility. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to: - Enable your DevOps teams with seamless and instant application and business performance monitoring of apps deployed in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) - Detect any emerging issue before it becomes a business problem - Ensure every code release drives business outcomes Speakers: Kamala Dasika, Pivotal Mark Prichard & Jonah Kowal, AppDynamics

1) IoT devices are becoming more common in enterprises and can impact business services and applications. 2) AppDynamics' vision is to provide an end-to-end solution to monitor all types of applications, devices, and connections from edge to cloud. 3) Problems with IoT devices and their data can originate from issues with the devices themselves or from the large volumes of data aggregated from many devices, as two customers discovered.

CA API Management SaaS Offers enterprises a SaaS or Hybrid open, analytics- and API-enabled platform that features greater control over "last mile" API access; simpler integration with existing systems and processes; and analytical insight into business trends, exceptions and risks. For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe

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Cloud and microservices! With applications moving into these spaces, how do you monitor the platforms with performance in mind? The session will give you an under-the-hood view into the AppDynamics story for the new .NET landscape, and an end-to-end view of the Azure technologies and how we tie into it. Hear an architectural breakdown of the AppDynamics agent for Azure; the user experience design with continuous integration in mind; and the move to decouple dependency to support the Open Web Interface for .NET. Key takeaways: o How AppDynamics monitors the cloud o How to use AppDynamics to monitor the cloud o Designing for microservices o How the .NET agent is changing to decouple dependency on IIS For more information go to: www.appdynamics.com

PayU is a leading payment services provider with presence in 16 growth markets across the world. Its mantra within IT is "fail early, fail often and never roll back," but this is a challenge in a global environment, with cross-located development and operations teams, multiple time zones, cultures, languages, and skill sets. To solve this challenge and provide transparency to development and production teams, PayU chose the AppDynamics Application Intelligence platform. Today AppDynamics gives PayU the ability to get immediate feedback of code changes regardless of the environment or the origin of change. The solution fits perfectly with the microservice architecture and has helped with DevOps adoption in all locations. Key takeaways: o Challenges faced in monitoring microservice-based applications in a globally dispersed operation o How AppDynamics provides a single pane of glass to monitor application changes o Best practices for utilizing AppDynamics in a DevOps culture For more information, go to: www.appdynamics.com

In a multi-application environment, it can become complex and time-consuming to keep track of those different interfaces, all with their own toolset and issue resolution. A monitoring team might provide the perfect solution to this “problem”. Such a team is solely focused on monitoring the different interfaces and assessing/resolving the risks and priorities that might arise. The consequence is that you get a good overview of your IT system and how healthy it is.

Listen to the recorded webinar here: http://www.appdynamics.com/lp/visibility-from-user-to-infrastructure-on-aws/

Jonah Kowall, VP of Market Development and Insights, outlines what needs to be built in terms of data extraction, analytics, and other open source technologies. Finally we’ll also discuss commercial alternatives and what features and functions are critical when monitoring microservices based applications. This presentation is from AppSphere 2015. This presentation shares a clear understanding of: - What is changing with software, and why? - What challenges are faced with these changes? - How to overcome these challenges

The document discusses metals, nonmetals, and metalloids according to their placement on the periodic table. Metals are located on the left side of the zigzag line, nonmetals are on the right side, and metalloids are along the zigzag line. Metals are malleable, ductile, good conductors while nonmetals are brittle, poor conductors. Metalloids exhibit properties between metals and nonmetals.

Every business is a software business: as companies embrace and embark on digital transformation the organization must become data-driven. Each decision is made based on data and key performance indicators along with analytical insights. Enterprise IT teams in this data-driven era must make decisions across multiple departments within an organizations based on these key insights. AppDynamics Application Analytics is a user and application-driven IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) platform. In this session, you will learn and see specific use cases in which AppDynamics Application Analytics applies to across your organization such as Business Impact Analytics, Usage Analytics & Advance Performance Analytics. This deck was originally presented at AppSphere 2015.

Listen to the recorded webinar here: https://www.appdynamics.com/lp/q3-unified-monitoring-webinar/ Dustin Whittle, AppDynamics' Director of Web Engineering, covers -the problems and struggles with monitoring tools today -how to identify and resolve critical issues before your customers are impacted -how AppDynamics provides one approach for unified monitoring And much, much more!

As release velocity increases, teams are finding innovative ways to detect and resolve performance issues earlier in the development cycle. This session will explore how to integrate performance testing into a development lifecycle and why the practice is gaining popularity. Learn how to create a balanced test strategy that matches test type, coverage, environment, and defect target. Scale to deliver high-performing applications. Through continuous integration platforms, performance testing tools, and AppDynamics, see how automated performance testing can reduce time-to-market while increasing overall quality. Key takeaways: o How to get started with performance test automation o How to detect and resolve performance issues earlier in the development lifecycle with AppDynamics o How to maximize the quality and value of your performance test strategy Brad Stoner Senior Sales Engineer, AppDynamics Resources: KonaKart - http://www.konakart.com/ Adminer - https://www.adminer.org/ Jenkins - https://jenkins.io/ NeoLoad - http://www.neotys.com/neoload/overview AppDynamics - https://www.appdynamics.com/free-trial/ GitHub - https://github.com/ Docker Hub - https://hub.docker.com/

The Xerox Government Solutions Health Enterprise Portal supports all of the Health Care Program and Decision Support needs for MMIS management for several states. The solution is based on different IBM products, leveraging IBM Digital Experience and WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Application Server, Smarter Process and IBM Security Solutions. To ensure the best possible performance for the users of this major enterprise solution Xerox and IBM worked on optimizing the performance of the solution. To monitor and troubleshoot the solution and optimize the performance AppDynamics Performance Management was used. The session will explain the business drivers, use cases, and architecture choices selected for deployment. We will also discuss in detail how the team leveraged AppDynamics and other tools to optimize and manage the performance of the enterprise health care solution. Join us for a real world showcase how performance was optimized for a state of the art enterprise Health Care solution. This deck was originally presented at AppSphere 2015.

Understand Cloud Foundry, where it fits into Bluemix, and how to deploy your first app on the platform.

This presentation demonstrates how you can use OpenShift, Red Hat's Docker and Kubernetes-based platform for managing your DevOps environment, combined with the power of AppDynamics, to deliver a complete next-generation application environment for your enterprise. In this session you will see live demonstrations and learn how OpenShift's orchestration and AppDynamics application monitoring combine to provide a seamless solution for driving your software development lifecycle while also providing insights into the health and effectiveness of your applications. This presentation was originally shared at AppSphere 2015.

In this session, attendees will learn about the new capabilities of AppDynamics with asynchronous transactions and Azure Websites: monitoring deep into these technologies using our software. We will illustrate new visibility and what the future holds for our .NET user base, in terms of how we enable increased visibility into the application lifecycle. Key learnings: -What's new: Asynchronous transactions and Azure Websites -Challenges with monitoring Azure Websites -Visibility that AppDynamics provides This session was originally presented at AppSphere 2015.

This document summarizes Ran Leibman's presentation on monitoring tools, components, and mentality at Facebook. It describes Facebook's monitoring architecture including the operational data store (ODS) for storing metrics, Scuba for real-time log monitoring, the alarm system for creating alerts, Facebook Auto-Remediation (FBAR) for automating issue resolution, notifications and subscriptions for alerting engineers, and dashboards for visualizing data. The presentation emphasizes treating metrics as important data, empowering developers to monitor, automating problem resolution, and using monitoring to surface previously unknown issues.

The problem that an organization wants to solve with application performance management (APM) is spread across many divisions. Developers are needed to investigate issues hidden deep in the code. QA has to uncover performance-related issues. And operations has to deal with the day-to-day triage of production issues. To be successful with APM and deliver on its core capabilities—including rapid deployments, solution sizing, application audit, triage, and assessments—engineers and managers need to build critical skills. In this presentation, we will explore ways to grow from a cost center to a profit center by delivering value-added services like capacity planning, 100% uptime, and rapid deployments. Key takeaways: o Understand APM maturity model, skill matrix, and concepts of APM as collaboration application o Changing the perception of APM as a cost center to a profit center by delivering value-added services o Matching these critical skills to AppDynamics features For more information go to: www.appdynamics.com

Hugh Brien of AppDynamics shares his Top 10 application issues he sees on a daily basis. The list covers: - Application Performance Monitoring - Database Monitoring - Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, and Python Monitoring - I/O - And much more

Learn how to monitor end-to-end workflows from every corner of the world. Hear the basics of AppDynamics Synthetic Monitoring and its integration in the AppDynamics Unified Monitoring Platform. Dive into scripting and how it allows monitoring of complex end-to-end workflows via a set of real-world examples describing best practices and tips to write better scripts and avoid common pitfalls. Key takeaways: o What AppDynamics Synthetic Monitoring can do today, and where the technology is going o See how Synthetic Monitoring complements Real User Monitoring and APM o Overview of the best tools available to help you build scripts quickly and reliably o Tips for handling complex websites, avoiding common pitfalls, and leveraging synthetic monitoring to run WebDriver scripts For more information, go to: www.appdynamics.com

Learn how to drive a digital transformation by condensing systems to one global SaaS Solution for corporate services, which reduces IT and business support burdens. It also increases integration between SaaS solutions that provide data feeds to each other and helps you proactively identify when jobs are running long. Hear how to increase the amount of data available for IT analytics, providing a single truth for data. Key takeaways: o How to evolve your DevOps culture o Provide more business analytics and increase value to the company o Do more with less For more information, go to: www.appdynamics.com

Prometheus is a open-source time series database with a powerful query language designed for operational monitoring. Contact us at prometheus@robustperception.io

Join this session to hear the details about AppDynamics Unified Analytics, including the latest features and architecture. Gain the information you need to understand how to use your data effectively to improve your software, operations, and business performance, whether you're in DevOps, IT ops, application support, engineering, or product management. Deep dive into architecture and technology and how the product scales. Key takeaways: o New features and key technological advances such as advanced searches, smart insight, streaming, and centralized log configuration management For more information, go to: www.appdynamics.com

Business-Track breakout session presented by Paul Arnautoff, Director of Business Development at AppDirect. Two years ago, Pivotal Cloud Foundry partnered with AppDirect to launch a Services Marketplace to make it easier for Developers to find, buy and use the tools they need to build cloud software. With the recent development of Pivotal's V2 Service Broker, the AppDirect services catalog is now available through not only Pivotal Web Services, but also any private or public deployment of Cloud Foundry anywhere. In this discussion, Paul Arnautoff will highlight how AppDirect integrated with the CF Service Broker and is extending the consumption of 3rd party services across a growing network of PaaS marketplaces as well as how ISVs can integrate once with the services catalog to distribute through any Cloud Foundry deployment.

Opening talk at Monitorama, talks about the problems of monitoring, challenges of creating monitoring tools and why monitoring vendors keep getting disrupted. Ended with a discussion of simulation testing and serverless architectures - Monitorless.