As the modern application landscape evolves, effective app management becomes increasingly crucial. In a recent report, Tanzu customers shared that 91%* organizations are being pressed to deploy applications faster than ever. Platform engineers and developers need simple and fast ways to view their environments. Additionally, customers often struggle with integrating data from diverse sources across complex IT environments, potentially leading to data silos, cumbersome processes and incomplete visibility if not properly managed.
Tanzu Platform recently introduced a common control plane and user interface for application deployment. This additional abstraction enables end-to-end observability and lets platform teams monitor an application’s entire lifecycle from a single interface. From initial code commits to production deployment, Tanzu Platform provides unified, multi-foundation visibility, and comprehensive insights into performance, errors, and resource utilization.
Optimize troubleshooting with multi-foundation views
Many enterprises have deployed fleets of foundations to support applications across data centers and geographic regions. With multi-foundation visibility, these organizations can now see all foundations and deployed applications in one consolidated view. Health, utilization metrics, and capacity information enable fast application triage and more efficient capacity planning. Application teams can troubleshoot issues with real-time application logs which are now available as part of Tanzu Platform.
Previously, customers had to toggle between multiple views to understand the health of their apps across different foundations, which caused additional time and effort across development and platform teams. Now, teams can see their foundations in one place, making it easier for customers to troubleshoot the health of their apps across hundreds of foundations, including integrations that embed health checks. Teams can also save time and be more efficient by not having to go through a third party to run their health checks. IT teams can view performance metrics, resource management, and security alerts across all foundations, providing a holistic view of their environment.
Pictured: A single foundation view in Tanzu Platform
Improve resiliency with integrated runbooks
Tanzu Platform experts have authored dozens of knowledge base articles to maintain the health and performance of foundations. By incorporating all that knowledge into Tanzu Platform itself, The new integrated runbooks send more refined alerts and remediation recommendations. These capabilities ultimately support higher uptime and shorter mean time to recovery (MTTR).
The alert details page provides additional context and blast radius information for triggered alerts and provides information on alert trends, related business applications, and related alerts. Tanzu Platform sends notifications and provides enriched alert details, including live runbooks to surface information and prescriptive steps that can help resolve the alert.
IT teams can resolve issues in minutes and onboard new users faster with step-by-step recommendations and knowledge base articles, and take advantage of out-of-the-box alerts that provide in-context notifications with live data.
Enhanced troubleshooting with easy, at-a-glance metrics
Tanzu Platform’s dashboard offers intuitive, at-a-glance metrics across all foundations, including the number of applications and services running on each foundation. This comprehensive overview ensures that any issues are promptly identified and addressed.
With enhanced visibility features, application troubleshooting is faster and more efficient on Tanzu Platform. By providing detailed metrics and logs in context to a foundation, developers and platform engineers can quickly pinpoint and resolve issues, minimizing downtime and improving user experience.
Tanzu Platform also provides at-a-glance views of Diego capacity by foundation. This helps you quickly assess and manage resources, preventing bottlenecks and ensuring smooth operations. Analytics for metrics such as anomaly detection and percentile calculations help analyze data better. Log analytics assist users in parsing through large amounts of data which is otherwise cumbersome, and can help users pinpoint changes across a large data set.
Unified Experience with HealthWatch, App Metrics and Observability
Instead of relying on separate point products like HealthWatch, App Metrics, and dedicated observability products, Tanzu Platform offers a unified experience by providing these in a single tool. This integration simplifies monitoring and management, ensuring that all critical metrics are easily accessible.
Managing applications across multiple foundations can be a daunting task. Tanzu Platform simplifies this by offering complete application-to-platform visibility into metrics related to app functions. This enhanced visibility guarantees that developers and platform engineers can monitor and manage their applications more effectively while optimizing performance and improving resiliency.
Get started with Tanzu Platform
Tanzu Platform improves visibility, security, and observability, ensuring your organization can operate more efficiently and effectively. Whether you’re a developer, platform engineer, or cloud architect, Tanzu Platform streamlines your workflows and improves your operations.
With Tanzu Platform, you can expect:
- Better informed decisions, improved troubleshooting, workload placement, and capacity planning with health and capacity views across all foundations
- Fast application triage across foundations for app resiliency
- Quick issue resolution with full topology and connected component views
Want to learn more? Hear from our team next week on the Cloud Foundry Weekly podcast where we deep dive into new and upcoming Tanzu Platform features.
