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.[2] AppDynamics received five rounds of funding totaling $206.5 Million.[3]
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.[4] 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."[5]
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.[6] In 2025, AppDynamics was merged into Splunk, which Cisco had acquired in 2024.[7]
References
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- ^ 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. Deprecated link archived 5 February 2013 at archive.today
- ^ Smythe, Christie (11 April 2013). "CA Technologies Sues AppDynamics Over IT Patents". Bloomberg News.
- ^ Dulaney, Chelsey (20 April 2015). "AppDynamics, CA Inc. Settle Two-Year-Old Patent Dispute". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
- ^ "Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire AppDynamics". Cisco. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ Pariseau, Beth (12 June 2024). "New Cisco-Splunk observability roadmap details emerge". TechTarget. Retrieved 24 August 2026.
