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NetDevOps:
Application-to-Network
Automated & Programmable
Performance Insights

Kamlesh Shah, CCIE#2803 (E), RHCSA OpenStack Admin, ITILv3

Sr. Solutions Architect

Global Channel Sales, AppDynamics
@kshah_us
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 • Introduce Application Performance
Monitoring with AppDynamics
• Introduce How Central Nervous
System Can be built with Insights
from App & Network together
Session Objectives • Provide examples of how
correlated Insights can be used to
solve network issues impacting
mission critical apps using Cisco
ACI and Cisco SD-WAN as
examples
ACI=Application Centric Infrastructure
SD-WAN=Software Defined Wide Area Network

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Agenda
• Objective
• Application Performance Monitoring Introduction & Demo
• Central Nervous System with AppDynamics
• Integration Architecture(s)
• Use Cases for NetDevOps: ACI & SD-WAN etc.
• Resources

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Application &
Business
Performance
Monitoring with
AppDynamics
You Need to Keep Pace with Your Customers!
Every Business is a Software Business

Do you know what our busiest

bank branch is in the UK? It’s
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Traditional Siloed
Tools Solve Siloed
Problems
Network

Middleware

Logs

Siloed problems are identified

by individual monitoring tools
‘Finding the red’

Multiple minor issues when

combined may contribute to poor
Database
user experience
Infrastructure

Siloed tools struggle to identify

these issues Cloud
‘Finding the yellow’

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Application Intelligence with AppDynamics
Move Fast, Follow Everything & Focus on What Matters Most

Visibility Insight Action

Live Customer Journeys Proactive Alert on

Automated Discovery &
Dynamic Baselines for for every Business
Transaction
Production Applications
Every User, Every
Transaction, Near Real Automatically Collected,
Fully Correlated
Time
Business Context of
anomalies, trends &
patterns
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Realtime Business
Metric
Programmable Actions
to adjust resource
allocation
User Impact Analysis
due to new code deploy
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AppDynamics Production Architecture
Application
Intelligence Platform
SaaS/On-Prem Controller
User Interface & Reporting
Correlated transaction view
No code changes required*
<Low overhead in production

One-Way One-Way
One-Way HTTP/S Remote JDBC
HTTP/S HTTP/S

Application
Agent Server Agent Database
End User Agent
Browser / Mobile / Java .NET. PHP OS SQL
IoT Node.js C++ Python
Go Extensions
SAP

*Exceptions apply
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AppDynamics Demo
Central Nervous
System (CNS):
Enabler for AIOps
The Central Nervous System: Enabler for AIOps
Visibility Insight Action

Public Private
cloud cloud
Cognition Engine
Incident response
App and business Action engine

Time series and events data

Resource scaling

Orchestration
Infrastructure
Cost optimization

Alerting ML/AI API

Network
Network configuration

Security Security enforcement

Unified dashboard

Feedback Loop

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 Cognition Engine Insight

Separate signal from noise

with ML/AI insight

• Baselines performance

• Streaming anomaly detection

• Automated root cause analysis

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 Action Engine Action

Take action based on

ML/AI insights

• Automatically provision compute

resources

• Dynamically create an incident in

ServiceNow

• Change network policy to optimize

bandwidth

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Use case : intelligent auto-scaling
• Challenge: Scaling infrastructure to meet resource demands is slow and complex

Visibility Insight Action

Create incident
1 2 3
in ServiceNow

+ Automatically create
4 Team Space and invite
the right people
Performance Correlate application performance with network
anomaly detected and infrastructure to determine root cause and
correct action CWOM* Deploy
5
Cisco Workload Another vPod
Optimization Manager
(CWOM)

Feedback loop shows improvement which automatically closes the incident and closes
7
team space
*Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (Turbonomic)

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Use case: intelligent network
• Challenge: Scaling infrastructure to meet resource demands is slow and complex

Visibility Insight Action

1 2 3

App and business, Correlate application performance with New policy is automatically
network and network and infrastructure to determine provisioned to increase the
infrastructure root cause and corrective action network bandwidth

Feedback loop shows improvement which automatically closes the incident and closes teams
4 space

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Integration
Architectures &
Use Cases
 • Library of Extensions
• Health Policy Based Actions
• API Based Cross Platform
Integration
How does • Cisco Workload Optimization
AppDynamics Manager (CWOM) (Turbonomic)
Cisco Cloud Center
Integrate with
•
• Cisco Application Centric

Other Systems
Infrastructure (ACI)
• SD-WAN (Viptela) (Proof-Of-
Concept)

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AppDynamics Exchange
Library of Extensions Supported by AppDynamics Support

• https://www.appdynamics.com/community/exchange

Community/AppD Extension Engineering/Partner Developed Integrations

• Monitoring Extensions: Useful for artifacts that can NOT be instrumented by

native agents. Gathers & Reports monitoring Info as metric to controller

• Alerting Extensions: One Way Events typically from AppD Controller to third
party systems: formatted/coded for target systems

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Alert & Respond System: Health Policy Based
Actions

• Email Alert
• SMS
Message
• Third Party
API End Point
Call
• Auto Scale
Infrastructure

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Tie application context to your network w/ACI*
Connecting Application &
Network Data Models
AppDynamics ACI
Runs on
Node End Point (EP)

End Point
Tier
Group (EPG)

Application
Application
Profile (AP)

Tenant Tenant

ACI--Application Centric Infrastructure

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AppDynamics and ACI Integration Use Cases
Bring application context
to the network
• Faster root cause identification
and remediation

• Reduce risk of unexpected app

outages regardless of network
location

• Better collaboration across

network and application
teams

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 Integration Architecture

AppIQ
APPDYNAMICS Controller

Container NGNIX
based Stateful On APIC REST API
App on APIC

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

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Integration API Flows: AppD to APIC Flows
APPDYNAMICS

REST

Login to ACI username/pw attritb

API Token usable for session

Get ACI End Points, using AppD Node IPAddresses

All ACI EndPoints

Get ACI Tenants

List of Tenants (which username can access)

Get ACI Faults for EPG for AppD Tier

List of Faults for EPG tied to AppD Tier

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Integration API Flows: APIC to AppD Flows

APPDYNAMICS

REST

ACI Sends Login POST http://10.23.239.14:8090/controller/auth?action=login

AppD Returns Session Token, e.g.X-CSRF-TOKEN=8eebabdc0c70d5fa5ad..

GET(AppD Apps, Tiers & Nodes) (Multiple Calls)

List of Apps, Tiers & Nodes

Get ACI Tenants

List of Tenants (which username can access)

There are other flows within APIC (From App Container

(in AppIQ) to NGINX for instance)
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AppDynamics & ACI Integration Demo
 Premium Customer Experiences Using App Aware Policy to
program SD-WAN Network

Real-Time Performance/Business Data  Improved Customer

Apps
experience for
App App Critical Applications
Code
& Business
Transactions
Browser
& Mobile Cisco Viptela SD-WAN
Dynamic Policies, Cloud First
RUM Management
 End2End Visibility =
Better Understanding
Network
of Application Health

* Current POC Scope

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Automated & Programmable App + Network Service Delivery

AppDynamics
End User Response Time Trend for Fleet
Inc/Branch 22

Viptela
Integration
Module*

Dynamic API based Action on SD-WAN

Route via MPLS vs. Business Internet, Color Traffic
with Higher QoS etc.

Improved User
Experience results
from using Premium
vManage
vEdge
Service for App & BT
Viptela SD-WAN
vEdge

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Summary
 AppDynamics Performance Visibility provides deep
application & Business Metrics Visibility in near real time

 Extensions & APIs provide ways to extend the platform native

capability

 AppDynamics Integrates with Cisco ACI & various other

solutions today (SD-WAN integration is in POC stage today)

 The solutions provide a mechanism to drive your NetDevOps

via API & custom code integration methods

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References
 AppDynamics ACI Integration Documentation
https://docs.appdynamics.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=45510337

 AppDynamics Extensions Library (aka Exchange)

https://www.appdynamics.com/community/exchange/

 AppDynamics APIs
https://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO45/AppDynamics+APIs

 GitHub Repo for AppDynamics

https://github.com/appdynamics

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