AppDynamics Offers SAP Peak for Deep Visibility into the SAP Environment

AppDynamics, a part of Cisco, on Monday introduced SAP Peak, monitoring tools for the SAP environment. This new offer builds on the already existing SAP monitoring from AppDynamics.

The company calls SAP Peak it’s next generation SAP performance management solution. It allows businesses to monitor their SAP environment in real-time. That includes logs, metadata, background jobs, S/4HANA databases and the application server.

“We were missing an important component [in SAP Monitoring from AppDynamics]: contextualizing how SAP performance impacts the business scenarios that facilitate the ways organizations operate,” Brian Paul, corporate development and strategy executive Cisco/AppDynamics, wrote in blog. “Without this visibility, organizations are blind to bottlenecks that may be impacting their IT landscape, and by extension, the crucial business processes their organization relies on to maintain user experience and healthy revenue streams.”

The Breakdown

Here’s a closer look at the new functionality.

AppDynamics’ Vipul Shah

“With the cost of an application failure averaging more than $500,000 an hour, it is critical that businesses today have a comprehensive system in place to monitor ad measure their increasingly complex IT environments,” said Vipul Shah, chief product officer, AppDynamics.

Acquired in 2017, AppDynamics delivers visibility across network, data center, security and applications. More recently, Cisco closed on its ThousandEyes acquisition. The ThousandEyes platform will be integrated across Cisco’s enterprise cloud and AppDynamics portfolio. This integration will provide real-time visibility across enterprise and cloud networks.