Full Stack Observability Lab

CISCO FULL STACK OBSERVABILITY

Welcome to the Cisco Full Stack Observability series of workshops! These workshops will introduce you to Cisco’s Full Stack Observability solution and the foundation components of that solution – AppDynamics, ThousandEyes, and Intersight.

In this series of workshops and labs, you will play a few different roles within an online global tea retailer. This retailer has been on the forefront of their niche industry. However, they have been running into some issues as of late during a major technical project. Throughout these workshops, you will assume the identities of various technical leads as they implement aspects of the company’s full stack observability initiative.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand Cisco’s vision around full stack observability and use cases addressed by each of the components.
  • Gain firsthand experience in developing aspects of the full stack obvservability solution for our retail company.
  • Learn how to translate concepts and ideas from the lab exercises to be utilized for your clients and customers.

Who Can Benefit?

This workshop revolves around four primary areas:

  • AppOps / DevOps
  • NetOps
  • InfraOps / CloudOps
  • SecOps

Roles and titles within these four areas can benefit from the contents of this workshop. Some example titles include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Application Owners
  • Application Architects
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Infrastructure Engineers
  • CloudOps Engineers
  • Security Architects
  • AppSec Engineers
  • Network Operations Engineers

Workshop Structure

This workshop series is divided into three sections:

  • Performance
  • Optimization
  • Security

Within each of these sections, there will be one or more use cases to be addressed by Cisco’s Full Stack Observability solution. Each section will introduce you to the relevant members of the organization you will be working with. You will dive deeper into the pain points each person is dealing with along with why he/she ultimately endorsed Cisco as the full stack observability solution provider of choice. In addition to understanding the value each person sees in the solution, you will gain hands-on experience in solving business problems covered by the outlined use cases.

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