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The latest report in the AppDynamics Agents of Transformation series is now available. Download Agents of Transformation 2021: The Rise of Full-Stack Observability now and learn more about: How the pandemic has caused widespread IT complexity. Why technologists across the world are focusing on real-time visibility across the entire IT estate. The critical need to combine full-stack observability with business context.  Technologists need to observe what matters to prioritize actions based on the direct impact to customers and the business. Read the full report here ... View more

"Do enable anomaly detection. It works well and catches the issues that you are not actively monitoring."                                                                                                                                                 — Bhavik Bhagat, Jobvite     ... View more

"Create custom dashboards to drive visible improvements in the critical areas of your application." — Bhavik Bhagat, Jobvite  ... View more

Welcome to our new tip collection—a place to exchange peer-to-peer advice. Sometimes a small adjustment, a pivot, or slight revision can make a tremendous difference. We hope this  area grows into a rich resource with this kind of useful information.    How to begin? We invite you to share an AppD tip you’ve found helpful—whether in large or small ways.   Think back to something you discovered and immediately wished you’d known earlier. You could share things like: That widget that helped you build the Dashboard you depend on That Health Rule configuration that saved you so much time and energy That invaluable template   NEXT ACTION >   First sign in at the top right. Then click the Start Discussion button ... View more

  Don’t miss Common at Transform 2021!  Not just a multi-award winning artist — he has spent years fighting for social change.    Registered Transform 2021 participants will be able to join him for an inspiring performance and discussion on how to make a real difference in 2021. He’ll be talking about the challenges of the last year, what you can do to make a difference and, of course, doing what he does best: sharing those sentiments through music.   Register now to watch Common live on February 24. ... View more

Transform 2021 includes expert-led breakout sessions for prospective customers, current customers, and partners. To access real-world insights and demos, register for Transform 2021 - AMER today.   Check out the session descriptions below. For more detail, including date and time, see the Agenda tabs on the Transform 2021 registration page.   Secure your apps & the business In today’s technical and security landscape you need to maintain innovation speed while protecting organizational and customer assets. How? AppDynamics with Cisco Secure Application Speakers: Jina Na, Product Marketing Manager , AppDynamics; and Aouss Sbai, Sales Engineer, AppDynamics Audience : Prospective customers, Current customers, Partners Track: Featured Products & Solutions Gain deeper internet visibility Learn how AppDynamics and ThousandEyes together can provide the most comprehensive visibility across your apps, networks, and external dependencies and break down silos to offer exceptional user experiences. Speakers: Wei Li, Product Marketing Manager, AppDynamics; and Brandy Smith, Global Architect , AppDynamics Audience : Prospective customers, Current customers, Partners Track: Featured Products & Solutions Observe hybrid & cloud native apps Learn how our Cloud Native Visualization can help you get ahead of bottlenecks by troubleshooting cloud deployments no matter their architecture in one platform. Speakers: Shreyans Parekh and Konr Ness Audience : Prospective customers, Current customers, Partners Track: Featured Products & Solutions Observe your SAP digital core   Learn how full-stack observability, provided by AppDynamics SAP monitoring, can help your enterprise keep your SAP landscape performing flawlessly, while providing business intelligence insight that leads to operational excellence. Speakers: Brendan Cooper, Product Marketing Manager, AppDynamics; and Vani Thiruvengadam, Global SAP Practice Lead, AppDynamics Audience : Prospective customers, Current customers, Partners Track: Featured Products & Solutions Learn the foundations of AppD The foundational elements of AppDynamics are built to understand the connections between your business results, customer experiences, and application health and most importantly to simplify your operations. Learn about: Auto-discovered Business Transactions AI Cognition Engines Root cause visualizations and reporting integrations Speaker: Eugene Kim, Director of Global Product Marketing and Strategy, Cisco AppDynamics Audience : Prospective customers, Current customers, Partners Track: Featured Products & Solutions   Align teams on business outcomes   In order to ensure digital business success, organizations must connect the dots up and down the stack—from business metrics, to user experience, to infrastructure.  Learn how to gain user and business awareness to optimize app and business performance, as well as aligning your team on business outcomes. Speakers: James Harvey, EMEA CTO, Cisco AppDynamics; and Nikolaos Papageorgiou, Senior Solutions Engineer, AppDynamics Audience : Prospective customers, Current customers, Partners Track: Featured Products & Solutions     Drive efficiencies with AI/ML   Discover AppDynamics Cognition Engine, the AI core of the AppDynamics platform using machine learning to automate anomaly detection and root cause analysis. Track: Customers Speakers: Erwan Paccard, Director, Product Marketing; and Peter Holditch, Senior Principal Product Manager, AppDynamics Audience : Current customers, Partners Track: Featured Products & Solutions Learn advanced topics in AppDynamics  (AppD 201) Take a look at some of our advanced features that can provide further insights into your application performance.  Kubernetes Cluster Agent Advanced Business IQ Dashboards How to alert and respond as you gain visibility into business-critical applications. Speaker: Gregg Ostrowski, Regional CTO, AppDynamics; Patrick Combs, Advisory Sales Engineer, AppDynamics Audience : Current customers, Partners Track: Customers Introduction To AppDynamics Partner Integrations Learn how AppDynamics collaborates with over 20 different vendors as part of the Integration Partner Program. See how the potential of your AppDynamics investment can be extended in areas such as:  feature flag changes (LaunchDarkly) data-ready RCA environments (Delphix) change impact analysis (Evolven) session replay (Quantum Metric) Speaker: Renato Quédas, Director Enterprise Architecture & Strategy, AppDynamics Audience : Current customers, Partners Track: Customers Prioritize IT with a business lens Prioritize workload based on business needs using real-time data. Learn how to focus on what matters most to the business when addressing IT problems or prioritizing new features and functionality.  Maturing from Level 3 Business Validation to level 4 Business Prioritization on the Business Observability maturity model Speaker: Joe Byrne, Regional CTO, AppDynamics Audience : Current customers, Partners Track: Customers     Reserve  your free seat to  Transform 2021 AMER February 23-26 Not your timezone? Register at EMEA   March 9-10    |     APAC   March 11-12   ... View more

Welcome to our third installment of the AppDynamics Community Member Spotlight series, featuring Ashley Lewis , with First Abu Dhabi Bank.   — Claudia and Ryan   Table of Contents A day in the life of Ashley.Lewis Why participate in Community? How do you use AppDynamics in your role? Keeping  up with Technology Trends Inspiration & Insights Ashley.Lewis, Specialist, IT Application Performance, First Abu Dhabi Bank   A day in the life of Ashley.Lewis Can you give us a picture of “a day in the life”? My responsibilities include working with different teams at First Abu Dhabi Bank across design and architecture, infrastructure, development, and support to enable monitoring, look for opportunities to improve observability of applications, and work on the evolving monitoring strategy of our organization.    I look into opportunities to improve current toolsets and make maximum use of the technology we have. On a daily basis, I also use the tools with my team to troubleshoot incidents and look for opportunities to reduce our detection time.   How did you get involved with this work? I've been working in the monitoring space within the banking domain for more than ten years. Exposure to development at the start of my career gave me a different perspective as to the possibilities of leveraging APM to increase the reliability and performance of applications using these tools.    I started off by using tools like Quest Foglight and HP Diagnostics, and learned the capabilities I should expect in this domain. In my current role, I am expected to increase the adoption and usage of the tools within the organization.   What feeds your interest in your work? The diverse nature of the technology stack you need to know in order to cover monitoring is extremely interesting. I get to talk to a wide range of SMEs across business and technology domains. It’s very satisfying to be able to deliver improvements which, in the end, benefit our customers positively.    For example, one of the issues we diagnosed using AppDynamics led to a significant overhaul of one of our core business applications, which in turn lead to significant response time improvements for our customers. This would not have been possible using traditional log-based analysis.   Why participate in the AppD Community? What first brought you to community? Looking for solutions and innovative ways to leverage the technology and solution stack that we have. Sharing knowledge with the wider community helps us all and I've had a good experience with some of the responses on the community   Can you tell us about a positive experience you’ve had with the community? Looking through the Idea Exchange in the community, I came across the idea of using the PII Data analysis and deletion tool which was developed by one of the internal teams at AppDynamics and had been successfully used to analyze data captured in AppDynamics. I was able to reach out and get access to the tool through our partners and hope to be able to use it positively at work.   How do you use AppD in your role? AppDynamics is used extensively to monitor applications at the bank. We also use it to baseline, troubleshoot performance problems, and narrow the gap between business and IT in how we communicate by using the same language.    High priority issues are typically analyzed using AppDynamics’ core capabilities to get down into code-level diagnostics. This might either trigger a required improvement in the level of detail we need to capture, or improvements to the application itself. Having this rich data within AppDynamics allows us to communicate easier with our external vendors and developers.   What are your top 2 AppDynamics hot tips? Make the best use of the Business iQ and Analytics capabilities of AppDynamics — especially in order to understand the functional status of business-critical transactions. We've observed this giving maximum value to business teams. Get the development teams to use AppDynamics as a part of the development lifecycle even before it hits production. The potential performance improvements are well worth the effort.   How do you use AppD day-to-day? There is a lot of interest around using AppDynamics’ MIDC capability in order to capture the functional status of business transactions. Most teams seem to expect this to be available out of the box: it requires some education to convey that this needs inputs from developers or team members who have a good understanding of the application code. Having this as a capability is invaluable.   Keeping up with Technology Trends What’s your best way of keeping up with industry news? I occasionally follow the podcast TWiET. The topics covered and open discussions are helpful to keep up to date with industry news.   What have you learned in the past year that you wish you had known when you started your career? This past year of the pandemic has brought about maximum innovation in the tech community to keep our enterprises running efficiently even though we have been working remotely. I wish organizations had realized the value of providing flexibility to workers without having to be forced into it due to the current situation. I ended up having more time to spend on developing my own interests.   Inspiration & Insights What are some of your favorite things to experience outside of work? I enjoy a bit of gaming on my PlayStation to relax outside of office hours. I also enjoy traveling around the world and experiencing new cultures.   How–or where–do you find inspiration? I like to read about science topics, especially physics, and the human mind. Its curiosity never ceases to amaze me. What we've achieved in the last century is a constant reminder that we can accomplish pretty much anything we put our minds to.   What advice would you give someone who is up and coming in your field of work? Find the right mentor to guide you in the right direction. I was only scratching the surface of the APM space until I received the right advice and guidance on how to go about it. Having sound knowledge in development is also very helpful to do well in this field. ... View more