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So, without further ado, here's a look back at 2019 and the Top 5 Things to Know.
1 We're Solving Your Pain Points
Save yourself from alert storms
It’s easier to avoid false alerts and overall performance noise if you define and configure alerts based on warning conditions.
3 new ways to streamline:
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Temporary spikes in performance data are a major cause of false alerts. With Persistence Thresholds, you can readily reduce alert noises and ensuring false alerts are minimized.
Business Analytics and Dashboard Landing Page From the transaction and browser to mobile events, the new Analytics Home page provides a holistic view of your Analytics data. See how at Resource Performance Dashboard.
Learn how we’re applying analytics that drives application and business performance with 5 Business IQ Use Cases.
Design Dashboards in Minutes with Dash Studio With release 4.5.16, customers have access to Dash Studio, the new dashboarding experience with improvements to visualize critical data in minutes. In AppDynamics SaaS version 4.5.13, higher retention of granular metrics in the Controller has been increased from one to eight days; allowing more time for detailed analysis, reducing the need to export data for external retention, and enabling AppDynamics to use machine learning to configure baselines and health rules.
Adding value through Microsoft Azure and AWS partnerships
Serverless APM for AWS Lambda is now generally available Serverless APM, supporting instrumentation of AWS Lambda applications and microservices in Java and Node.js, is now available to our SaaS customers through the AWS Marketplace.
New open-source observability standards are gaining significant steam, and we’re proud to be one of the first to support the OpenTracing Project. The new OpenTracer uses OpenTracing APIs to capture all the BTs, Snapshots, SEPs, Callgraphs and corresponding metrics from your self-instrumented applications.
2 Go Deeper with AppDynamics University
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Learn how Alaska Airlines reduces outages and continually builds on its impeccable customer service and satisfaction with AppDynamics. Meanwhile, could you be an Agent of Transformation? Start your journey by reading the Agents of Transformation Research Report and learn how elite technologists from T-Mobile, Paychex, and World Bank Group have accelerated their businesses and careers. Contact us to become an Agent of Transformation and let us showcase your business and IT innovations.
4 AppDynamics-Cisco Awards and Recognition
AppDynamics is proud to be named the Independent Software Vendor, Agile Partner of the Year, 2019 by Pivotal Software, recognized for “demonstrating engineering commitment to deliver rapid products to customers across a broad set of solutions.” In November, AppyDynamics won CRN's 2019 Tech Innovator Award. "AppDynamics for Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure provides the IT team with crucial visibility into how network policies impact application performance, offering a faster path to remediation of performance impacts."
In October, Cisco was ranked #1 as the world's best workplace by the Great Places to Work organization, “98% of employees rated the company as a great place to work across measures of engagement, trust, fairness, safety and health and wellbeing.”
5 Events in 2020
CiscoLive Barcelona Join us in Barcelona, Spain, to learn, explore, connect and be inspired by experts from Cisco, AppDynamics, as well as our customers and partners. Learn more about what's happening from January 27 - 31, 2020.
AppDynamics Transform 2020 Register for Transform 2020, a one-of-a-kind virtual event covering emerging technology and the future of performance monitoring. Save the date for February 20, 2020.
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