AppDynamics was an American observability, full-stack application performance management (APM) and IT operations analytics (ITOA) company based in San Francisco. In 2017, it was acquired for $3.7 billion by Cisco, and later (2025) merged into Splunk, which Cisco had acquired in 2024.
History AppDynamics was founded in 2008 by Jyoti Bansal, a former lead software architect at Wily Technologies, a provider of application performance management technology.Demery, Paul. (February 26, 2010). "Priceline Finds a Way to Monitor its Wide World of Applications." InternetRetailer. Retrieved September 7, 2011. AppDynamics received five rounds of funding totaling $206.5 Million.Harzog, Bernd. (May 4, 2010). "AppDynamics Raises an $11 Million Series B Round – Confirms APM 2.0 Opportunity." The Virtualization Practice. Retrieved September 8, 2011.
On April 10, 2013, CA Technologies (formerly Computer Associates) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District in New York. The lawsuit claims that AppDynamics violated three patents that came into CA Technologies' possession through acquisitions. This was the second action CA Technologies filed in connection with alleged infringement of patents obtained in the acquisition of Wily Technology. In November 2012, CA Technologies filed a lawsuit asserting patent infringement of the same three APM patents against software company, New Relic. On April 20, 2015, AppDynamics and CA settled the two-year-old patent dispute. AppDynamics said that it paid a "modest fixed payment."
In January 2017, Cisco acquired AppDynamics for $3.7 billion, just days before a planned IPO of the company. In March 2017, Cisco completed the acquisition of AppDynamics. In 2025, AppDynamics was merged into Splunk, which Cisco had acquired in 2024.
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Unofficial AppDynamics Wiki - Service Monitoring Library