Juniper Apstra Cloud Services Overview
Obtaining real-time visibility into the functioning of the data center is critical to providing an unmatched user experience. It is important that administrators have the ability to resolve data center events and anomalies proactively, in the same way as administrators resolve campus network events using Mist.
For this, administrators should have visibility into the operations of the data center in real-time. The Juniper Apstra Cloud Services (ACS) application, which can receive, process, and perform root cause analysis of networks events from an Apstra-managed data center, can enable network administrators to proactively respond to data center events ensuring that users' application experience remains unaffected.
Juniper Apstra Cloud Services is a SaaS-based Day 2 observability platform for data centers that are managed using Juniper Apstra. By utilizing the AIOps capability of Marvis, Juniper Apstra Cloud Services analyzes the events information received from the Apstra-managed data center and displays them in Marvis Actions view along with recommended actions to resolve those events.
Juniper Apstra Cloud Services runs as an independent application in the cloud, receiving and analyzing events information from Apstra. You can also integrate Juniper Apstra Cloud Services with Mist. When integrated with Mist, you can view the total number of data center events in the Data Center/Application category in Marvis Actions along with other event types for the campus and branch networks. You can then access Juniper Apstra Cloud Services and view more detailed information about those data center events in Marvis Actions. This way, network administrators get complete visibility into the operations of the entire enterprise network, comprising the campus, branch, and data center networks. Administrators can resolve network issues proactively, which in turn enables enterprises to improve operational efficiency and reduce operational cost and downtime.
The Service Awareness and the Impact Analysis features enable administrators to visualize how the data center network is being utilized by the hosted services. The Impact Analysis feature helps you visualize the impact of an anomaly on the hosted services and the clients utilizing the data center network. This enables faster resolution of network issues that impact end user experience.
Juniper is changing the game with AI native operations for data center networking or AI Ops. Today, we're going to demonstrate how to elevate your data center Assurance capabilities from network assurance to app assurance. You can achieve this by using new functionality that's part of Apstra Cloud Services, our suite of cloud-based AI native applications for the data center.
The first application is called application/service awareness. It does exactly what it sounds like. It gives you visibility and awareness of what applications and services are running in your data center, and where. Starting from a summary view of applications and services in the network, you can drill down to focus on one specific app or service, see exactly where it's connecting to the network, and even identify all the individual clients using it. Use the Connection view to see where the traffic from that app is traveling through the network, and the Flow view to see how large the traffic flows are.
You can even travel back in time. Let's say you need to troubleshoot an application performance problem that occurred last night. Just select the time range you want to focus on, and then move the slider to see how the application traffic and the number of clients using the application changed over time. Just by itself, this visibility into apps and services in the network can really speed up troubleshooting and reduce your mean time to resolution or mean time to innocence.
But that's not all! The second application, which is called impact analysis, lets you zero in on the root causes of application issues to help you elevate your assurance gain.
How often have you seen a network alert and wondered, Is this important, or is it just a symptom of some other problem and, is it actually impacting any applications or users?
With traditional Network management tools, getting those answers to those questions takes too long. With impact analysis, you can immediately see what the current alerts or anomalies are. Here, you see a link status mismatch, and which services and applications are impacted by each one. You can drill down to see where the problem is in the network and which application clients are affected by it.
This really shows the power of AI Ops in the data center. With these two applications, you not only know what's running on your network. You can quickly isolate the root causes and the application impacts of any network issue. You can reduce alert fatigue, focus on the right problems, and fix them faster.
Contact Juniper to see how we can help you elevate your network operations game from network assurance to application assurance with Apstra Cloud Services.
Juniper Apstra Cloud Services also provides the generative AI-based Marvis Conversational Interface (CI). Marvis CI enables administrators to quickly search within product documentation for relevant troubleshooting information to resolve the events.