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Cisco Cloud Observability
with Spectro Cloud Palette
End-to-end observability as part of day
one automated Kubernetes® operations
and not just an afterthought!
Modern application architectures enable teams toinnovate quickly with greater agility while delivering
improved reliability. At the same time, building,deploying and managing Kubernetes-based applications
across the lifecycle is complex, especially in production
environments where infrastructure, application
availability and performance are key priorities.

Building and deploying Kubernetes
in a distributed world
Kubernetes has become a cornerstone in the modern
cloud infrastructure, particularly for its capabilities incontainer orchestration. It offers powerful tools forthe automated deployment, scaling and managementof application containers. But with the increasing
complexity in containers and services, the need forrobust observability and management tools becomesparamount to overcome common challenges.

Cisco Cloud Observability andSpectro Cloud Palette
Designed to eliminate data silos, Cisco Cloud
Observability provides technology teams with crossdomain visibility with correlated MELT (metric, event,log, trace) data and AI/ML-driven insights to simplify thecomplexity of observing the performance of modern
applications, multi-cloud Kubernetes® and hybrid cloudinfrastructure. Business transaction insights enhance
the application observability experience by combining
business transaction monitoring and AIOps-derived
insights drawn from OpenTelemetry™ data, enablingteams to identify and prioritize critical business flow.
Spectro Cloud’s Palette is a next-gen enterprise
Kubernetes management platform that simplifies thedeployment and management of Kubernetes clusters,
wherever they are — in the cloud, bare metal andDeploying production Kubernetes can be a constant
struggle of controlling the complexity of lifecycle
management across diverse environments while
ensuring the health and availability of the complete
infrastructure and application stack where there is noroom for failure.

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virtualized data center, and at the edge. Palette works
with any new or existing Kubernetes cluster, any
distribution or cloud native integration, all declaratively
managed across the complete stack, with native day
zero to day two tooling.

To ensure all your Kubernetes environments are always
healthy, Cisco Cloud Observability now integrates with
Palette out-of-the-box, seamlessly correlating cloud native
infrastructure and application performance across any
location and with a few clicks, for peace of mind.

Instant visibility through your entire stack, wherever it resides

The partnership between Cisco and Spectro Cloud delivers day-zero operational simplicity to organizations
looking to provide governance to Kubernetes deployments and to solve the challenge of consistentobservability across the full stack.
• Out-of-the-box integration with Spectro Cloud® Palette for end-to-end Kubernetes
observability across any environment.
• Correlate Kubernetes infrastructure and APM services.
• Unified management across the full Kubernetes stack.
• Visualize large-scale Kubernetes clusters (1000s of pods and containers).
• Gain proactive lifecycle diagnostics and governance.

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Addressable use cases
Use case

Description

Modern application
monitoring

For customer, DevOps, CloudOps, ITOps, Platform Engineering and SRE
teams that have imminent plans to move new applications to AKS or
EKS (Kubernetes) and interest to leverage OpenTelemetry standards andmonitoring those application workloads that are in AKS (Azure KubernetesServices), EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and tracking cloud plus
infrastructure metrics. These users will have a need to monitor performanceof microservices-based cloud native applications and distributed
applications leveraging cloud technologies that are hosted on public or
private clouds, cloud native application performance and continually optimize
user’s digital experiences, connect IT teams to business results throughvisibility into cloud native application user experience and correlate cloudnative application performance to app infrastructure.

Quickly identify the fault
domain of customer
impacting issues across theapplication and Kubernetes
infrastructure.

Application
dependency
monitoring
Quickly identify the fault
domain of customer
impacting issues across theapplication, infrastructure,end user client and internet.

Power Kubernetes
anywhere
Correlate performance anduser experience acrosshosted and cloud dependent
services to proactively
remediate issues.

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For customers with AppOps, NetOps, ITOps users who want to clearly see
health scores related to network and applications in one view and understandthe performance of managed and unmanaged (third-party) application
services and APIs, including Internet and cloud network performance. Gain
end-to-end network visibility across enterprise, Internet and end user devices.
Correlate insights from performance data to proactively remediate issues.
Ensure uptime with real-time global outage detection. Note that other Cisco
solutions, such as Thousand Eyes, may be required.

For customers and AppOps, InfraOps users struggling between multi-cloudenvironments. Monitor the performance of traditional and hosted hybrid
applications that utilize traditional infrastructure and hybrid cloud. Monitor
application performance and continually optimize the digital experience.
Connect IT teams to business results through user experience visibility.
Correlate application performance to your app infrastructure.

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The Cisco advantage
Cisco is uniquely positioned to deliver full-stackobservability to customers. More than any othercompany, Cisco is defining the market. Cisco Cloud
Observability, powered by the Cisco Observability
Platform offers cross-domain visibility that brings
teams together with real-time ingestion of massive data
streams of MELT from normal business operations.
Most importantly, it provides a view relative to business
context. According to Gartner, regarding the broader
applied observability movement, “When appliedsystematically, it can reduce the latency for response
and optimize business operations in real time.” With theCisco Observability Platform, business context becomesan integral part of monitoring and visibility outcomes.

A vendor-agnostic solution, the Cisco Observability
Platform brings data together from the application,networking, infrastructure, security, cloud, sustainability
and business sources. Customers get in-context,correlated and predictive insights so they can reducetime to resolve issues, optimize experiences andminimize business risk.
In addition, it provides the flexibility of extending Cisco
Observability Platform for creation of new or custom
business use cases including monitoring and analysis ofAPIs. It enables extensibility from queries, data ingestion
pipelines and entity models all the way to APIs and acomposable UI framework.

“Developers can use the platform to enrich existing entities, theirattributes, and relationships or to create new ones. These capabilities
make it easy to create, launch and monetize custom use cases as
modules on Cisco Observability Platform, spawning an ecosystem ofmore customers and partners.”— Liz Centoni
EVP Chief Strategy Officer and GM Applications, Cisco

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