Cisco extends observability portfolio with Epsagon acquisition

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Cisco Systems Inc. today announced plans to acquire Epsagon Ltd., a startup with a platform that helps enterprises detect technical issues in their applications and identify the root cause. That’s because if a malfunction occurs in a complex workload made up of dozens or hundreds of individual components, identifying which of them is causing the error can be akin to finding a needle in a haystack. Distributed tracing is an approach for diagnosing technical issues faster wherein administrators send a piece of data known as a request to a malfunctioning application. Then, the platform visualizes the data it collects on application malfunctions in a diagram that displays which component is experiencing technical issues. The company’s portfolio also includes tools for detecting cybersecurity issues and finding opportunities to reduce workloads’ hardware usage.

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