Cisco Observability Platform
Solution Developer Kickstart Guide
The Cisco Observability Platform provides core capabilities for developers to build observability solutions to gain visibility and actionable insights across their technology and business stack.
Open, extensible, scalable, and flexible
- Fully extensible entity-based data model
- Provides users with enhanced flexibility to ask any question of any part of their stacks, as well as model, at every level of detail, their own ecosystem.
- Out-of-the box support for OpenTelemetry
- Provides broad accessibility to data instrumentation and collection – today and tomorrow.
- Unified query language
- Get helpful insights across domains, in model, and in context.
- Cloud-native application model
- Make sense of modern hyper-distributed and ephemeral microservices environments.
- Make sense of modern hyper-distributed and ephemeral microservices environments.
Platform Use Cases
The Cisco Observability Platform supports a variety of observability use cases, including data ingestion and transformation, network observability, and rapid development of third-party applications. Additionally, the platform provides core capabilities for business transactions and metrics, bespoke user interfaces, alerting and actioning, and customized reports.
The Platform can serve observability use cases requiring:
- Data ingestion and transformation of MELT and system data from different environments and clusters
- Insights based on correlated MELT and system data
- Network observability within the context of your application
- Extended functionality of existing Cisco observability, monitoring, and security products
- Rapid development of third-party standalone applications
- Business transactions and metrics for critical business operations and goals
- Bespoke user interfaces
- Alerting and actioning
- Customized reports
Learning Objectives
We will explore the process, the tools and the skills required to build a Cisco Platform Solution.
Who Can Use the Platform
The Platform is designed for developers, system integrators, third-party vendors, and enterprise customers who need to gain insights into their ingested data.
System integrators can use their expertise and Cisco’s relationship to create highly integrated modules. Third-party developers can create standalone applications and interfaces integrating with their own SaaS products.
All developers can easily export insights and data from the platform to be integrated with products or platforms (such as ServiceNow® and Splunk®) or custom tools.
Cisco Observability Platform Ecosystem
The Cisco Observability Platform ecosystem consists of data and developer components, each with APIs and interfaces for developers to build solutions, administer accounts, and manage subscriptions:
- Data Platform: The core of the Platform that is responsible for handling various data-related tasks such as modeling, ingestion, storage, and querying.
- Developer Platform: The set of tools and components provided by the Platform that developers use to create solutions. Account Administration: The online services for managing Platform accounts, including viewing and managing tenant access, users, roles, permissions and subscriptions.
- Platform Exchange: The online venue where end users of the Platform can discover and subscribe to applications and modules. The exchange also enables developers to list and market their solutions to Platform customers.
Next Steps
We’ll dive deeper into the architecture and capabilities of the Cisco Observability Platform.
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