While the AppDynamics Inc. management team was busy sorting out the company’s $3.7 billion sale to Cisco Systems Inc. earlier this year, product development efforts evidently continued as normal.

The application monitoring provider today rolled out the first major update to its namesake toolkit since the completion of the acquisition last month. One of the main goals AppDynamics hopes to accomplish with the release is to make the platform appealing for a broader range of software projects. To that end, it added support for Google Inc.’s fast-rising Go programming language and integration with two of the most popular mobile development tools on the market.

The first is Android Studio, which is likewise the brainchild of the search giant, while the other is the cross-platform Xamarin programming framework. Similarly to AppDynamics, the startup behind Xamarin was bought out by Microsoft Corp. last year in a deal reportedly worth as much as $500 million.

The Xamarin and Android Studio integrations are joined by several usability improvements that AppDynamics likewise included in the update to make its toolkit better equipped for supporting mobile projects. Most notably, the new release brings a revamped monitoring tool that promises to let engineers check the crash rate of their apps, network performance and other key metrics more easily.  AppDynamics has also revamped its user analytics console on the occasion to provide visibility into individual customer sessions.

Users that require even deeper insight into their projects, meanwhile, can take advantage of the new testing features that the provider introduced in conjunction. The biggest addition on this front is a Developer Mode for the toolkit’s flagship diagnosis console, which groups the application components involved in each user action to let software teams see the whole picture. An engineer looking to, say, inspect how their company’s new shopping app handles purchases, could now perform testing both before and after it’s rolled out to production.

Looking ahead, AppDynamics can be expected to keep adding features for streamlining large-scale application projects as part of its efforts to court enterprise customers. Cisco is offering the provider’s software alongside its own homegrown infrastructure monitoring solutions, including the beefy Tetron machine learning appliance that was introduced last year.

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