Unveiling a new era of insights: introducing Cisco Cloud Observability Dashboards

[Deena.Shanghavi]

Empowering businesses with enhanced monitoring and robust observability solutions

At Cisco, visibility and control are paramount in today’s dynamic digital landscape. That's why we're thrilled to announce a significant milestone in our journey to empower businesses with robust observability solutions. On January 31, 2024, we launched dashboards for Cisco Cloud Observability, powered by the Cisco Observability platform. This release marks the beginning of a new era in monitoring and insights. 

A promising start 

This inaugural release of dashboards on Cisco Cloud Observability is just the start of the plans we have in store. We believe in an agile development approach, where we continuously evolve and enhance our offerings based on your needs and feedback. While this initial release is already packed with five out-of-the-box AWS dashboards, rest assured that more are on the horizon. 

Your feedback, Our inspiration 

At Cisco AppDynamics, we've always valued our customers' opinions. Your feedback is the driving force behind our innovations. The decision to kickstart our dashboards journey with out-of-the-box solutions is a testament to our commitment to addressing your needs. We've heard your voices loud and clear from AppDynamics Dashboarding, and this release is a direct response to your requests and suggestions. 

Enhanced filtering capabilities 

One of the key features introduced in this first release is an improved filtering experience. We understand the importance of fine-tuning your monitoring to gain actionable insights quickly. With our support for filters, you can now easily narrow down your focus by tags and attributes right at the top of your dashboards. This enhancement will empower you to identify and address issues with greater precision and efficiency. 

AWS Dashboards 

We have designed user-friendly dashboards that provide a detailed overview and insight into key AWS services such as EC2, EBS, EFS, ELB, & S3. Powered by Infrastructure Collector and CloudWatch, these dashboards are instrumental in monitoring Cloud Services. 

The metrics displayed on these dashboards are neatly categorized into sections like memory, CPU, network, among others.  

With the help of top-level filters, you can swiftly navigate through the data and focus on instances that are experiencing issues. These dashboards allow you to view the overall health of your cloud services and effortlessly isolate any problems. 

In addition to these, we're in the process of developing more out-of-the-box dashboards for AWS, GCP, and Azure, which we plan to release soon.  

A sneak peek into the future  While our initial release is designed to provide you with immediate value, we have big plans for the future. We will be releasing new out-of-the-box Dashboards for APM, Cost Insight Troubleshooting, and more, in an agile manner. We're excited to announce that the Edit experience for our Dashboards is set to launch in the early summer of 2024. This addition will enable you to customize and tailor your dashboards to your specific needs, ensuring a more personalized and efficient monitoring experience.  For example, we’ll have dashboards that give you an overview Health of all your Entity types, including and not limited to BTs and services you can share the fullstack view with your CIOs as well.

Your journey with Cisco Cloud Observability 

We're not just building software; we're forging a partnership with you on your observability journey. With our dashboards, we aim to simplify complex data into meaningful insights that drive better decisions and faster actions. Your success is our success, and we're here to support you every step of the way. 

How to get started 

Getting started with dashboards on Cisco Cloud Observability is easy. Just log in to your Cisco account and explore the new Dashboards tab. You'll find a curated selection of out-of-the-box dashboards, ready to provide valuable insights into your AWS environments. Learn more in the documentation. 

Keep the conversation going 

We want to continue hearing from you. Your feedback has been instrumental in shaping this release, and we are eager to learn how dashboards for Cisco Cloud Observability are enhancing your monitoring experience.  

Reach out to us through our Feedback button on the Cisco Cloud Observability, through support channels, or here in the Community forums, and let us know your thoughts, suggestions, and any challenges you're facing. Your input will drive our future enhancements and ensure that our solutions remain tailored to your needs.  

As well, if you’re open to participating in our user-research sessions, please register here.   

Conclusion 

The launch of dashboards for Cisco Cloud Observability is a significant milestone for us at Cisco, and we couldn't be more excited to embark on this journey with you. Our commitment to providing valuable, customer-driven solutions remains unwavering. As we move forward, our agile approach will ensure that we adapt and evolve our offerings to meet your ever-changing requirements. 

Thank you for your trust and partnership. Together, we'll usher in a new era of observability and insights, empowering you to thrive in the digital age. Stay tuned for more updates, and let's continue shaping the future of monitoring and observability, one dashboard at a time. 

About me 

Deena Shanghavi is a Director of Product Management responsible for Cisco Observability Platform Dashboards and Unified Observability Experience.  Deena is passionate about creating simple user experiences and providing out-of-the-box experiences so that users have low or zero configuration. 

When not working, Deena loves to read, listen to audiobooks, paint, meditate, and do Yin Yoga.