Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Policies Configuration Guide, Releases 26.x and Later

Custom Applications

Updated: April 24, 2026

Outlines the process for configuring, managing, and verifying custom applications within Cisco Software Defined Wide Area Network Manager, enabling tailored application control and monitoring in network environments.

This content describes the features related to defining custom applications in Cisco's SD-WAN solutions.

Table 1. Feature History
Feature Name	Release Information	Description
Support for Defining Custom Applications	Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 17.3.1a Cisco vManage Release 20.3.1	This feature adds support for defining custom applications.

Custom applications

Describes custom applications used in Cisco NBAR technology.

Configure custom applications using Cisco SD-WAN Manager

Configure custom applications using Cisco SD-WAN Manager.

Verify custom applications

Provides information on verifying custom applications and protocols.

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