Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Explain the functionality, benefits, and use cases for Cisco FSO
• Understand the roles AppDynamics, ThousandEyes, & Intersight play in FSO
• Describe Hybrid application monitoring for AppOps
• Convey the requirements of Distributed application monitoring for DevOps
• Explain how Secure App identifies and prevents application vulnerabilities
• Describe how to use Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer for hybrid cost optimization
• Perform application resource optimization with Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer and AppDynamics
• Explain Application dependency monitoring for NetOps with Cisco ThousandEyes
• Describe Customer Digital Experience monitoring with Cisco ThousandEyes

Who Should Attend

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

• Field Engineers
• Solutions Architects
• Systems Engineers
• Systems Administrators

Prerequisites:

The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

• Fundamental knowledge of networking and application delivery concepts
• Familiarity with ARM and APM concepts
• Basic understanding of cloud-native and distributed applications

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Cisco Full Stack Observability

• Application landscape complexity and digital transformation
• Cisco FSO functional architecture
• Teams and Use Cases

Module 2: Cisco Full Stack Observability Foundational Products

• From Visibility to App Performance, Optimization and Security
• Getting Started with AppDynamics Architecture and Features
• Getting Started with Intersight Architecture and Features
• Getting Started with ThousandEyes Architecture and Features
• Product integrations and API

Module 3: Hybrid Application Monitoring for AppOps

• Aligning application performance and user experience to business outcomes with AppDynamics
• Optimize digital experience with AppD and proactive diagnosis
• Linking IT to business initiatives by qualifying User Experience impact
• Correlating app infrastructure and performance insights

Module 4: Distributed Application Monitoring for DevOps 

• Monitoring performance of cloud-native distributed applications with AppDynamics
• Identifying infrastructure-related issues across hybrid cloud environments
• Driving agility and optimizing hybrid cloud resources

Module 5: Application Security for AppOps / DevOps and SecOps with Cisco Secure Application

• Correlating security to business impact
• Vulnerability lifecycle management across App and Security teams
• Threat detection and app protection in real time
• Shared security insights for collaboration

Module 6: Hybrid Cost Optimization for InfraOps with Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer

• Balancing utilization between public and on-prem resources
• Eliminating cloud overprovisioning for app performance
• Preventing underutilized on-prem resources

Module 7: Application Resource Optimization with Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer and AppDynamics

• Relating infrastructure resourcing decisions and optimization to end-user experience
• Correlating application performance data with infrastructure health
• Application-aware infrastructure optimization for on-prem and cloud

Module 8: Application Resource Optimization with Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer and Intersight Infrastructure Service

• Aligning workloads to lowest cost infrastructure options across complex environments
• Balancing Performance and Cost
• Preventing resource management performance issues

Module 9: Application Dependency Monitoring for NetOps with Cisco ThousandEyes

• Understanding how external network dependencies affect user experience
• Correlating insights from networking and routing data
• Visualizing comprehensive third-party dependencies
• Application dependency monitoring with Internet Insights
• Use Cases
• Selecting ISP based on Internet Insights
• Application analysis based on Internet Insights

Module 10: Customer Digital Experience Monitoring with AppDynamics and ThousandEyes

• Providing a comprehensive unified view of digital experience
• Application, hybrid cloud, and internet performance data visibility
• Correlating App performance to internet performance data
• Unified workflows and navigation

Lab Outline:

Labs are designed to assure learners a whole practical experience, through the following practical activities:

• Lab 1: Navigating FSO foundational products dashboards and features
• Lab 2: AppDynamics End User Monitoring
• Lab 3: Configuring APM with AppDynamics
• Lab 4: Hybrid Application Monitoring with AppDynamics
• Lab 5: AppDynamics Distributed Application Monitoring
• Lab 6: Identifying application vulnerability with Secure Application
• Lab 7: Adding targets to Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer
• Lab 8: Application performance and cost analysis
• Lab 9: Integrating AppDynamics in Intersight
• Lab 10: Optimizing application resources with Intersight and AppDynamics 
• Lab 11: Transaction visualization and analysis in ThousandEyes
• Lab 12: Selection of ISP based on Internet Insights
• Lab 13: Application analysis based on Internet Insights
• Lab 14: Validating Customer Digital Experience in ThousandEyes