Cisco has announced the first integrations with Splunk, following its recent acquisition, to combine their market-leading observability technologies. These integrations aim to accelerate full-stack observability across the enterprise, enabling customers to deliver more performant and secure digital experiences.
This collaboration unlocks unified visibility across any environment—whether on-premises, hybrid, or multi-cloud—and any stack, utilising powerful real-time analytics for faster, more accurate detection, investigation, and response.
Cisco and Splunk have introduced new integrations, including a unified observability experience for joint customers and the Splunk Log Observer Connect for Cisco AppDynamics. Additionally, there is now an integration of Cisco AppDynamics with Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI).
These innovations provide unparalleled visibility into the network and any environment, paired with Splunk’s industry-defining log analytics and cloud-native observability capabilities, allowing customers to instrument their entire business and reduce blind spots.
Among the new full-stack observability innovations is the AI Assistant for AppDynamics. This feature delivers meaningful guidance and insights, empowering users to make informed decisions faster and more accurately than ever before.
The expanded AppDynamics Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) hosting on Microsoft Azure further enhances these capabilities. Additionally, the new Advanced AI in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) leverages advanced AI and machine learning to provide more precise alerting and a more accurate view into IT health.
Through Cisco and Splunk’s new integrations and innovations, customers gain unified visibility across their entire digital footprint, including both owned and unowned networks. This observability experience supports on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, helping organisations ensure reliability across their digital estate, whether traditional applications or modern cloud-native environments.
Key announcements include the introduction of single sign-on (SSO) credentials to streamline shared workflows between Cisco AppDynamics and Splunk, context-aware deep linking for seamless transitions to relevant logs in the Splunk Platform, and expanded support for Cisco AppDynamics on Microsoft Azure.
The new AI Assistant for Cisco AppDynamics and the advanced AI capabilities in Splunk ITSI further empower IT teams with actionable insights and dynamic, adaptive thresholds.
“By bringing together Splunk and Cisco observability solutions, customers now have unified visibility across their entire digital footprint so they can detect, investigate, and resolve problems faster to create a reliable, resilient experience for their users,” said Tom Casey, SVP and GM, Products and Technology, Splunk. “Having full control over their data helps them make more targeted, effective, and smarter investments in their digital systems and services, allowing them to better leverage their entire digital footprint to attract more business and grow the company.”
The unified observability experience, including single sign-on and Log Observer Connect for Cisco AppDynamics, will be generally available in Q3CY24. The updated Splunk TA for AppDynamics and Splunk ITSI App for Content Packs will be available on June 14, CY24. Cisco AI Assistant for Cisco AppDynamics and Cisco AppDynamics SaaS hosting on Microsoft Azure will be available in Q3CY24. The Configuration Assistant, part of Advanced AI for Splunk ITSI, is already generally available.
“Now, with Cisco and Splunk, you get the strength of Cisco AppDynamics and Splunk Observability, powered by Generative AI, offering customers a comprehensive opportunity to achieve observability for the whole enterprise,” said Stephen Elliot, Group Vice President and Analyst, IDC.
