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Announcing winner of Dashboard Competition
Community Round-Up: March 2021
Catch up on the latest SCOM, Azure Monitor and SquaredUp news.
Working with the WebAPI tile – tips & tricks
Regardless of the SquaredUp product you use, the WebAPI tile is very useful when it comes to connecting to external data sources and showing them in your dashboards. It brings you closer to that single pane of glass dashboarding dream that we all have, which is why it is also one of our most used…
The Big SCOM Survey: Results and expert analysis
What’s the future of SCOM? How do others set up their SCOM landscape? What tools are SCOM Managers using to help streamline processes? The answers are all here. The Big SCOM Survey 2021 is the first of what we hope to be an annual survey where we measure the pulse of the SCOM community, get…
The Big SCOM Survey: Full results
Below is the full list of results for the Big SCOM Survey. We surveyed 118 SCOM users with 27 questions. For the key highlights and expert analysis of these results head over here. Our respondents mainly consisted of Infrastructure Engineers (42.4%), IT Administrators (20.3%), Consultants (11.9%), Monitoring Engineers (10.2%) and IT Managers (7.8%). The majority…
Dashboard competition: Win a Star Wars LEGO set worth $800
Join the exciting dashboard competition as part of our Dashboard Server product launch! Put your best dashboards forward and stand to win a Star Wars LEGO set worth up to $800. The best bit: it’s entirely free to take part! Dashboard competition Who is eligible: Anyone who downloads Dashboard Server (free) or has SquaredUp for…
How to embed Grafana visualization in SquaredUp
In our previous post on Grafana and SquaredUp, we compared the two tools across various benchmarks like ease of deployment, time to value, dashboard creation, dashboard sharing, and more. Both tools have their specific advantages over the other, but since the ultimate goal is to give you a single place to look – why not…
Post-event review: SCOMathon Workshop Week
A couple months ago, we hosted a week of community-led SCOM workshops and networking. These hands-on workshops took a deep dive into a series of topics handpicked by the SCOM community itself – and we are thrilled that the community found it valuable, as we learned from our post-event survey. Keep an eye out for…
Layering customer, infrastructure and business perspectives into your monitoring (Part 4)
In my prior three blog posts, we set some ground rules, looked at some out-of-box dashboards, overloaded an in-box property, and finally created an innovative structure to communicate status using SquaredUp’s EAM feature. Looking back, when I started this blog, I explicitly stated that traditional monitoring wasn’t our goal. It’s essential, but the industry (in…
Communicating Strategically with Manual Reporting Availability (Part 3)
In my prior two blog posts, we focused on creating a bunch of Enterprise Applications (EAs), tagging those EAs, and then updating the Status dashboard to only show those EAs that are Critical Service Offerings (CSO). For this blog post, we will create some relationships and demonstrate how alerting behaves using SquaredUp’s Manual Reporting Availability…
SquaredUp helps customers save 20% of Azure costs
Are you suffering from overspending in Azure, lack of cost visibility and lack of context? You’re not alone; Azure cost management is a problem we hear about time and time again. That is why we created top-notch cost tiles that would allow users to build the perfect Azure cost dashboard, and help them quickly identify…
Community Round-Up: February 2021
Catch up on the latest SCOM, Azure Monitor and SquaredUp news.
Community Round-Up: January 2021
Catch up on the latest Azure Monitor, SCOM and SquaredUp news.