AppDynamics Unveils Central Nervous System Platform For AIOps Era

AppDynamics, a Cisco company, today unveiled a new platform that will unite all the areas of its application monitoring business. It also helps the company position itself with an AIOps mindset — using artificial intelligence (AI) to automate IT operations — to navigate the challenges of modern environments. The platform, deemed the Central Nervous System, is propped up by three pillars — visibility, insight, and action — according to Matt Chotin, the senior director of technology strategy at AppDynamics. “Technology environments are getting too large and too dynamic to manage manually,” he said, referencing IoT, multi-cloud, and containers. “IT needs to change and adopt an AIOps mindset to navigate this challenge. We view AIOps as a philosophy that values prediction over reaction, answers over investigation, and action over analysis.” The Central Nervous System, aptly named after the human central nervous system, is an extensible, open platform that will leverage third-party systems to ingest data, correlate and analyze across domains, automatically remediate problems, and optimize performance.