If you want me to show you instead, just click play below.

What is a health roll-up?

Put simply, health roll-up means taking the health from one “object”, and using it to influence the health of another, typically something sitting higher up in your hierarchy. Health, that rolls up.

In SquaredUp’s context, we’re talking about three key object types. Monitors, Dashboards, and Workspaces.

When you create a tile on a dashboard, you have the option to enable Monitoring. This allows you to create a health state for that piece of data, which we represent as a Monitor. Maybe it’s a threshold on a metric i.e. when your response time goes over 100ms. Perhaps its a state monitor, used when another tool is already telling us something.

Roll-up starts right from there. Your tile’s health influences the health of the dashboard it lives on, and that dashboard then influences the health of the workspace it lives in. At the time of writing, our health model uses the state of the worst member in that roll-up. So if you have a dashboard with 2 tiles and one goes red, that “worst state” is what the dashboard inherits. This continues up the chain.

The first win

WIth a few dashboards, in a few workspaces, with a few monitors enabled, the first win is that your global home view will light up like a Christmas tree. You can set the view to show Monitors, Dashboards, or Workspaces, and can then further filter this view by Tags, Health, or Types.

So with just a few monitors turned on, you’re already a step towards that coveted “Executive View“, uncluttered by busy line graphs and metrics, just the simple red, amber, green boxes they crave in the boardroom.

The filter preferences on this view are per user, so while your view might be all of the micro-service monitors from workspaces tagged up with your name, your boss might want to see all the application workspaces, and the exec team might want just department health.

Building a working map

Monitor to Dashboard to Workspace is just the start though. That shows health in a very focussed way, but there’s no structure yet. What if you want the health of a micro-service to impact the health of an upstream caller, or the performance of a sales rep to influence the health of their team… Now we’re in the world of Dependencies.

SquaredUp was built to make dependency mapping simple and flexible. There are a few different ways to use all these juicy health states depending on what you want to achieve.

I just want to see the health of another team’s service

Easy… when building your dashboard, you simply choose the SquaredUp Health data stream, then scope to the monitors, dashboards, or workspaces of your choice. You’ll get a simple block tile showing the state of those objects.

I want a simple roll-up as well

You can get a simple roll-up in this case by enabling a monitor on your new tiles, choosing the State option. Now, if one of the objects you’ve chosen becomes unhealthy, your tile will become unhealthy too, as will the dashboard and the workspace. That downstream health from somewhere in the ether is now rolling up into your workspace. Neat!

As a quick note at this point, now that you’ve got monitoring in your workspace, you can enable Notifications and SquaredUp can tell you via Slack, Teams, Zapier, webhooks, and more, when something isn’t right. No need to wait for the other team to let you know they’re in trouble.

I want the whole fancy map

Well I don’t blame you…

The map is powered by Workspace Dependencies. These are slightly different to just using health states on your dashboards. Modelling your whole application, team, or even company is just as easy though.

From your workspace, go to the Map panel. You’ll see your lonely old workspace all by itself. If you hover over it, you’ll see a + icon appear below. SquaredUp maps from the top down (at the time of writing), so it’s easiest to start at the top.

For example, maybe you have an Engineering workspace. Starting there, you might map some downstream dependencies to the workspaces for each of your squads. From their workspaces, they might map down to the apps they’re responsible for. From the apps, it’s the micro-services, and maybe further beyond.

By the time everyone has created the links to the things they depend on, you’ll get a killer view from your organization’s home. Simply toggle from Tile to Map, and voila. From chaos comes order and beauty!

With all of these dependencies in place, the health of each workspace will be inherited from all of those below. Issues with your lowest level services can be seen more easily, and why they’re a problem can finally be understood.

I want all of the above, in my inbox

Easy win! Any time you enable monitoring anywhere in SquaredUp, you’re creating something that can trigger a Notification. We currently support sending notifications to email, Slack, Teams, ServiceNow, Zapier, and Webhooks.

Just jump into the Monitors tab from your chosen Workspace. You can create the destinations you need, and have fully granular control over what gets sent to who!

In addition to triggering based on Monitor conditions, our Notification API can be used to trigger a message whenever you want. Here at SquaredUp, we have notifications that include a whole dashboard being delivered to Slack channels at 9am each day. A great way to speed up those team stand-ups.

It’s not all on your shoulders

The real beauty with our health model is that for most customers, it “just happens”. With the top-down mapping approach, it’s in everyone’s interest to identify all of the things that impact them. By making it simple for everyone to just point-and-click those relationships into existence, the entire organization benefits from that collective knowledge, all seamlessly correlated and colour-coded. No one person needs to achieve this on their own.

Health roll-up, made beautifully simple.

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An amazing turn out 

Over two lively days, the community shared a wealth of knowledge and made meaningful connections. Our lineup of 25 speakers brought in around 300 attendees who were eager to network. The energy was infectious! 

SquaredUp Cloud 

Alongside my colleague Atul, I was excited to share SquaredUp Cloud with the Microsoft community in India at our dedicated event booth.  

It was nice to see the buzz around SquaredUp Cloud. Attendees were fascinated by the Map feature, which allows users to associate KPIs. The other most popular feature was Monitors, which can be set to roll up health for each workspace node. Demo-ing these use cases sparked interesting conversations around various use cases with attendees. 

 
The crowd was diverse, but the majority of attendees who engaged with us were individuals from development teams. They found the platform especially valuable for visualizing CI/CD pipeline data and appreciated its ability to correlate data across multiple clouds. We also met some excited students who said they would use the free version of our product in their projects. 

Sameer’s session on Navigating Observability with SquaredUp 

 
A highlight for me was my colleague (and Experts Live India organizer) Sameer Mhaisekar’s presentation on Navigating Observability with SquaredUp Cloud.

A large proportion of the audience was familiar with SquaredUp Dashboard Server and how it works with SCOM, but not many were aware that our new Cloud product has the capability to dashboard anything. Sameer’s demo got everyone excited about its potential applications across their toolstacks! 

My key takeaways 

Across both days of Experts Live India, I got to see how the event really helped to foster a strong sense of community among experts, sponsors, and attendees. It was great to see everyone engaging in meaningful discussions and forming connections. 

For me personally, it was a transformative experience. I started off as a bit of an observer but ended up fully immersed in the vibrant community, making new friends and contributing to some insightful conversations. 

All in all, Experts Live India 2024 was more than just an event – it was a melting pot of ideas and connections that left a lasting impression on everyone involved. I’m excited to see where this community goes from here and eager to do my part! 

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Experts Live Netherlands is the largest Microsoft community event in the BeNeLux region. Every year, the event brings IT professionals, tech enthusiasts, and industry experts together for an exciting day full of knowledge sharing and networking.

This year (also the event’s 12th year running), Experts Live NL 2024 will focus on the themes: Microsoft cloud, datacenter, security, data and AI.

We are thrilled to be sponsoring the event and hosting a session on the latest updates and solutions from SquaredUp!

When and where:

• 4 June 2024 
• NBC Congrescentrum, Blokhoeve 1, 3438 LC Nieuwegein, Netherlands

Check out our Lego SWAG Store

While you’re at the event, why not come along to check out SquaredUp and meet the team?

We’d love to show you our dashboards and explain our unique data mesh architecture. Come and see how you can get centralized visibility without the costs of a data warehouse.

You’ll also get to build your very own LEGO minifig to take home!

Customize your LEGO character using the dedicated SWAG Store mobile app we built.

While you’re at our booth, check out how we use our own dashboards to monitor the LEGO minifig production pipeline and demonstrate how SquaredUp surfaces business-level insights like order volumes, wait times, and inventory, alongside more technical KPIs like cloud hosting costs, SLOs, incidents and lambda errors.

What is SquaredUp?

For the past 10 years, SquaredUp has delivered awesome dashboards for Microsoft SCOM, that continue to be well loved by the community.

In 2022, we opened a new chapter with SquaredUp Cloud, a SaaS version of our product that plugs into 100+ data sources. This time, the sky’s the limit.

You can now create beautifully simple dashboards for all of your Microsoft infrastructure and applications. The unique thing about the product is that, unlike other observability tools that rely on a data warehouse, SquaredUp Cloud leaves your data where it is, plugging directly into each source to index and stitch the data together using a data mesh.

Teams have one place to go to search, visualize and analyze data across all tools – all without the hefty price tag.

Join us in the Netherlands and try SquaredUp Cloud for yourself!

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If you’re desperate to know about all the awesome features we’re building, new data sources we’re connecting to, or to hear stories from fellow customers about how they’re taking their dashboards to the next level, get signed up to SQUPCAST.

Hosted by Adam, our VP Innovation, and a cast of amazing guests, tune in live every 2 weeks for your SquaredUp fix!

Coming up on SQUPCAST

May 1st, 3pm (BST)

Episode 3: Sales made me do it

“So what exactly is SquaredUp” they keep getting asked. Well in this episode we’re going to answer that question. Join us for an end-to-end walkthrough from signing up and adding your first plugin, to all the exciting advanced features.

May 15th, 3pm (BST)

Episode 4: SaaSy security chat with the CTO

“I promise we can make this fun“, said nobody ever when talking about security. But we’re damn well going to try! Our CTO, Richard Jones, joins us on this episode to answer all those burning questions that your security teams need to ask whenever you’re looking at a new SaaS tool for your stack.

May 29th, 3pm (BST)

Episode 5: Terraforming… dashboards?

In this episode we’re going to dive into how our Terraform provider can help you automate all the things. Shas Subedi and Nathan Foreman from our engineering team are going to drop in for some high-quality chat and a bit of demo-time, and no doubt they’ll blow your socks clean off!

June 12th, 3pm (BST)

Episode 6: From CloudWatch to customer health

Running PaaS and SaaS is a big deal, and we’ve all got data coming out of our ears, but how can we turn all that noise into something meaningful? Tune in to this episode to hear how your metrics, logs, and traces can be turned into beautiful customer health dashboards.

June 26th, 3pm (BST)

Episode 7: Mid-year madness

To celebrate SQUPCON, our annual company conference, we’re handing this episode of SQUPCAST over to the awesome people who make SquaredUp possible, to recap on all the killer work they’ve done this year. Tune in for demos, delighters, tips and tricks galore.

July 10th, 3pm (BST)

Episode 8: Relayed from behind enemy lines

In this episode we’re chatting with Matthew Long from our engineering team about how our Relay Agent get’s behind enemy lines to surface all your juicy on-prem enterprise data into our fancy cloud dashboards. We’ll cover the classic server deployment and chat about some container-based options too.

Previously on SQUPCAST

April 17th, 3pm (BST)

Episode 2: Let’s talk Engineering dashboards

We’re diving into a really popular SquaredUp use case in this episode… engineering dashboards. We’re going to talk about a few of the challenges faced by engineering teams, the common data sources you’d be connecting to, and some of the neat ways that SquaredUp can save your stand-ups.

April 3rd, 3pm (BST)

Episode 1: Welcome, what’s new, what’s coming

We’re kicking off SQUPCAST with some introductions, and a wholesome chat with our product managers who’ll show off all the new features and plugins we’ve added to SquaredUp in the last month.

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Sure, you can switch between tabs for all your tools but an “Engineering dashboard” that brings this all together makes it much easier to consume quickly and effectively. A dashboard can also be used to share status outside of the team – with managers who may not have access to all of the underlying tools or don’t have the time to go digging.

What does an ideal engineering dashboard look like?

Every software development team is different. Depending on your role and your organization, an engineering dashboard could contain any of the following types of metrics:

• Application performance
• Cloud platform
• Workflow management
• DevOps
• Cost

Necessary features

While only you can answer the question as to what metrics serve you best, there are dashboarding 101 basics that are applicable across most use cases. Your dashboard needs to offer the following:

1. Integration with your full tech stack that is seamless and affordable
2. Instant access to data that doesn’t require additional steps such as re-running scripts
3. Data visualization options to help users understand data and analyze trends
4. Customizable notifications that alert users about critical events via their channel of choice (email, Slack, ServiceNow, etc.)
5. Easy sharing with stakeholders whether or not they have access to the underlying technical data
6. Security features including strong authentication mechanisms, role-based access control, and data encryption
7. Data manipulation capabilities to combine related data from different sources into actionable insight

Building a software development dashboard in SquaredUp checks all these boxes. Here’s a preview!

Create a free account to try it for yourself or read on to see how I build the engineering dashboard step by step.

Building an engineering team dashboard

Let’s say the engineering dashboard we’re building is for a team that develops on AWS using Lambda and DynamoDB and deploys using Azure DevOps. They leverage GitHub for their code repo, Jira for issue management, and AWS CloudWatch for monitoring.

This is what the team wants to show on the dashboard, and where that data comes from:

• Backlog (Jira)
• Open PRs (GitHub)
• Release pipelines to prod (Azure DevOps)
• Application health (AWS CloudWatch)

Let’s dive right into how to create it.

Step 1. Getting started

To get started, simply head over to squaredup.com/sign-up to register for a free account.

Once you’ve created and verified your account, you’ll be able to quickly connect to your data sources and start dashboarding!

SquaredUp has more than 60 out-of-the-box plugins (with more on the way) that enable you to connect to a range of cloud platforms, dev tools, databases, service management tools, and more. This includes AWS, Azure, GCP, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Jira, GitHub and many more. You can also securely connect to data sources inside your own network via our relay agent.

We will create this dashboard in a new SquaredUp ‘workspace’ for the dev team. A workspace is basically a container where you can group related things. Note that you can apply workspace-based access control so your team can take ownership of your own dashboards.

Right then, now that we’re set up, let’s start building!

Step 2. Connect to data sources

As an example, we’ll walk through plugging into your Jira environment. Connecting to other data sources is very similar, so you can follow the same steps and refer to the documentation for that plugin if necessary.

Click “add a data source” and look for Jira. You can search for it using the search bar at the top or browse using the filters on the left-hand side.

If you don’t find the tool you’re using in this list, not to worry – there’s a Web API plugin and a PowerShell plugin to connect to any API you want!

Once you’ve selected Jira, you’ll be prompted to configure your data source by choosing a display name and inputting any other required information (API keys, domain URLs etc.). These requirements differ slightly for other data sources.

You also have the option to restrict access to your data source, which is available to everyone in your organization by default.

It’s worth noting that SquaredUp doesn’t store your data (i.e., won’t create yet another database). SquaredUp plugins are lightweight connections that leave the data where it is and stream it on demand via API using the data mesh technology. This approach is significantly cheaper than getting yet another big tool that stores your data!

Step 3. Visualize your data

Once you’ve successfully configured the Jira data source, we index all of the objects and object types you have access to – ready for you to create your visualizations.

To create your first visualization, go to the left nav bar and click the ‘+’ sign next to the ‘Dashboards’ tab.

You can add a title and description for your tile at the top of tile editor.

There are 4 tile types to choose from: Data, Image, Text or Embed. For the purpose of this example, let’s start with data.

Configure the tile by selecting the following:

1. Data streams: A list of all available data streams/ metrics for your chosen data source. Depending on the data source you choose, the data streams will display related metrics.
2. Objects: scope the data stream to show particular objects you want to visualize.
3. Timeframe: For the time period/ duration you want to visualize.
4. Shaping: You can filter and manipulate data returned to extract the exact data you want using filtering, grouping, sorting, etc.

Then, pick your visualization. Visualization options are shown on the right of the dashboard designer. The visualizations offered to you depend on the data available – for example Line Graph will only be offered if there is time series data.

And voila, you’ve added your first visualization! The other tiles work in the same way. Plugin configuration differs slightly between tools, but for the most part it’s rinse and repeat.

After configuring a few more plugins and adding additional tiles… we’re done!

But that’s not where it stops!

Step 4. Set up monitoring and notifications

The ideal dashboard alerts users about critical events so that there is no need to perform routine checks.

On a tile you’ve created, navigate to the “Monitoring” section and you’ll notice you can set alerts, based on a condition of violation.

For example, I can set an alert to notify me when the number of Active PRs crosses 10.

Even better, I can send this alert as a notification via the channel of my choice, such as Slack, Teams, Email, or to a custom webhook.

You can even opt for a dashboard / tile preview to be included in your alert, so you have the necessary context before opening up the dashboard!

Step 5. Share your dashboard

Lastly, now that you’ve created this engineering dashboard, you can easily share it with other teams without them having access to your tools or interfering with your data. You’ve got two options:

1) Manually share as a link

Simply click “Share” in the top right and select your permissions settings. It’s then as simple as sharing a link.

2) Automatically send a dashboard or tile on a routine, according to your rules

On top of our regular Notifications, which trigger when a Monitor changes state, we have a Notification API feature that lets you build that trigger into other tools. Here are some examples of workflows we use internally:

• Every morning at 9am, send the live sales dashboard to the team email group. Just a quick micro-report that brings together key stats from across their tools.
• Five minutes before any check-in meetings, use Power Automate to drop my project summary dashboard into Teams… who’s unprepared now!
• Add an action to our company Slackbot so it can post a channel’s pinned dashboard live and on-demand.
• When an issue is caught in an Azure DevOps pipeline, send the build summary dashboard to the DevOps team.

And with this you’ll notice SquaredUp has checked all the boxes for the criteria we set up earlier to what an ideal dashboard should look like!

Of course, each team and organization will want to dashboard different data in different ways. We hope the example above offers some inspiration and insight into the many ways you can visualize different types of data for an engineering dashboard.

Try it for yourself by creating a free account. You get unlimited dashboards and 3 users for free!

If you’d like a quick video showing how easy SquaredUp is to use, see how SquaredUp Product Manager, Dave Clarke, creates an AWS dashboard visualization in under a minute:

Thanks for reading and happy dashboarding!

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Formerly known as SCOM-Day, OpsLogix’s well-loved SCOM event is back after a few years’ break – only this time, it’s been rebranded as SCOMeetUp 2024. The event is a one-day in-person conference dedicated to networking, knowledge sharing and building the SCOM community. It’s the perfect opportunity for anyone using SCOM as their monitoring tool to hear from experts and connect and network with colleagues in the field.

We are thrilled to be sponsoring this event once more and can’t wait to meet more of the SCOM community in person. Come along for a chat with us, or to attend our Director of Engineering Bruce Cullen’s session: Unlocking Comprehensive Visibility.

When and where:

• 25 April 2024 
• Clarion Hotel The Pier, Gothenburg, Sweden

Unlocking Comprehensive Visibility: Why we started with SCOM

SquaredUp was born in 2011 with a bold vision centered on data visualization. This was a world before Grafana and PowerBI. Why did SquaredUp start with SCOM? What’s changed since then? And why have we stayed so committed to SCOM?

In today’s world, SCOM remains the bedrock of infrastructure monitoring in many organizations, and for good reason. But the landscape now extends far beyond traditional observability tools, requiring a holistic approach.

Join our Director of Engineering Bruce Cullen to discover how SquaredUp has leveraged our SCOM-based heritage, taking learnings from the SCOM object model to realize our original vision – of going beyond SCOM dashboards to deliver unified visibility across all of your tools.

What is SquaredUp?

For the past 10 years, SquaredUp has delivered awesome dashboards for Microsoft SCOM that continue to be well loved by the community.

Our dedicated SCOM product Dashboard Server for SCOM natively connects to SCOM’s object model. With SCOM, it’s impossible to drill down to see more details or correlate data with other data types or alerts for the same object. With SquaredUp, users get all the detail and insight they need, from the metrics they are already collecting in SCOM – all accessible by drilling down to any data within a dashboard.

Our range of out-of-box dashboards means users can surface insights in minutes. Sharing dashboards is as simple as sending a link or putting your dashboard on a wall monitor or website.

Dashboarding beyond SCOM

In 2022, we opened a new chapter with SquaredUp Cloud, a SaaS version of our product that plugs into 100+ data sources. With this product, the sky’s the limit.

This means beautifully simple dashboards for all of your Microsoft infrastructure and applications, without a dependency on SCOM. The unique thing about the product is that, unlike other observability tools that rely on a data warehouse, SquaredUp Cloud leaves your data where it is, plugging directly into each source to index and stitch the data together using a data mesh.

Teams have one place to go to search, visualize and analyze data across all tools – all without the hefty price tag. Click here to learn more or you can try SquaredUp Cloud for yourself for free. Alternatively, come chat with us at SCOMeetUp where we’ll happily talk you through any of our products!

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Experts Live India is a premier technology event for IT professionals, technology enthusiasts, and industry experts from across India to come together for knowledge sharing and networking.

We are very excited to be returning to Experts Live India in Bengaluru to check out the great content line-up and meet the community. We can’t wait to discuss all things SCOM monitoring and the latest SquaredUp updates!

When and where:

• 16-17 February 2024 
• Prestige Fern Galaxy, 6, 18, Bellandur Gate Rd, Bellandur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103, India

Navigating Observability with SquaredUp

Session: Navigating Observability with SquaredUp
Date: Saturday, 17 February
Time: 10:00AM (IST)
Speaker: Sameer Mhaisekar, Developer Advocate

Join Sameer’s session to learn how a data mesh approach to enterprise observability can solve the problems of tool sprawl, silos, and blind spots.

What is SquaredUp?

For the past 10 years, SquaredUp has delivered awesome dashboards for Microsoft SCOM, that continue to be well loved by the community.

In 2022, we opened a new chapter with SquaredUp Cloud, a SaaS version of our product that plugs into 100+ data sources. This time, the sky’s the limit.

You can now create beautifully simple dashboards for all of your Microsoft infrastructure and applications. The unique thing about the product is that, unlike other observability tools that rely on a data warehouse, SquaredUp Cloud leaves your data where it is, plugging directly into each source to index and stitch the data together using a data mesh.

Teams have one place to go to search, visualize and analyze data across all tools – all without the hefty price tag.

Join us in India and try SquaredUp Cloud for yourself!

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SquaredUp highlights

Surfacing multi-cloud costs with SquaredUp

Learn how our Developer Advocate Sameer Mhaisekar combines Azure and AWS cloud costs in one view for easy analysis.

Read more

How to measure engineering team health

Senior leadership at SquaredUp want to monitor the ‘health’ of our engineering team in a simple dashboard. But what to measure? See their discussions and considerations. 

Read more

What’s new in SquaredUp: June – Dec 2023 highlights

See our key product updates from the last six months, including new visualizations, even more out-of-the-box dashboard, and an ever-growing suite of pre-built plugins.

Achieving unified observability with data mesh

The single pane of glass is perhaps the most enduring and elusive goal of large IT and Engineering teams. Hear from our CEO and Founder on the challenges we’re facing as an industry, and how we can battle them. 

Read more

Sameer’s SquaredUp Learning Path – Part 0 – Reintroduction 

After a long sabbatical, we’re thrilled to welcome Sameer back to SquaredUp as a Developer Advocate. Since the release of SquaredUp Cloud, he’s on a journey to discovering what it can really do. 

Read more

Bad observability: 12 anti-patterns

There’s plenty of content out there telling you how to implement observability, or what good looks like. But what about bad observability? What are some anti-patterns to watch out for?

DORA metrics considerations

In this article, Stephen Townshend, creator of Slight Reliability explores key considerations to take into account when using DORA metrics within your teams and organizations. 

Read more

How Arup achieved unified Observability

Learn how Arup – the global architecture and design firm behind iconic projects like La Sagrada Familia – unified visibility across engineering teams, to deliver better services for their customers.

Read more

Community highlights

Microsoft announce GA for SCOM MI

Big news! Microsoft have just dropped Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance (SCOM MI), their cloud-based version of SCOM. Learn about its benefits, and how to get set up.

Read more

Context isn’t just for Christmas

For day 9 of CloudFamily’s festive tech calendar, Adam shares how we use our own tools here at SquaredUp to share the magic of observability, in all its forms, with the whole team. 

Read more

Observability at Julius Baer engineering

Hear from Nick Wallner, Software Engineer at Julius Baer on how they effectively monitor systems and visualise software to ensure quality at runtime.

Read more

SquaredUp virtual customer workshop

This November, we welcomed SquaredUp customers from all over the world to our virtual “SquaredUp Town” for a day of learning.

Read more

Episode 67 – Single Pane of Glass

Stephen chats with Jamie Allen (AWS Chief Technologist) and Adam Kinniburgh (SquaredUp’s VP of Innovation) about the concept of a single pane of glass for SRE.

Watch the video

Stay in touch

You can keep up to date with our latest product updates by visiting our official changelog, or request new product plugins here. 

Happy holidays!

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In this video, I’ll show you how one of our valued (and definitely real) customers “North Pole Industries” utilizes SquaredUp to share the magic of observability.  

Can they pull off Christmas Day in their Tesla-powered CyberSleigh – with the help of SquaredUp dashboards? 

Watch to find out!

Video highlights

Use the timestamps below to skip ahead to the features you’re most interested in.

03:23: Data is useless without context. See the map of cross-team dependencies that North Pole Industries’ managed to create in SquaredUp.

06:44: See the magic you unlock after adding a plugin. We automatically index your objects (e.g., Azure function apps and log analytics workspaces). If multiple tools cover the same object, we automatically correlate that data together (e.g., an Azure function that has some open changes against it in ServiceNow). You also get powerful out-of-box dashboards. 

11:02: How to enable monitoring, set thresholds and turn on notifications 

11:24: Data manipulation with SQL Analytics. How to combine and manipulate data from different sources (averaging, aggregation etc.) using SQL. E.g., combining Azure and AWS cost.  

12:24: Connecting to any data using PowerShell script – simply paste it in. 

13:19: How to vizualize data from Azure AppInsights – simply copy and paste query from Azure.  

14:20: The snazzy Diagram tile – perfect for sharing KPIs with the wider business. See what the CyberSleigh team have created with data from the Tesla API and Octopus Energy. Who thought critical business metrics could be presented in a fun way? 

If you’ve read this far on this summary blog, watch the video! It’s 15 minutes of fun that you won’t get back, but I promise it is worth it.  

The Festive Tech Calendar 

This video was created as my entry for the Festive Tech Calendar, an Azure-focussed, tech community event spanning the month of December.  

Here are a few other community submissions from the calendar, but head over to their YouTube playlist to see the full lineup. 

• Diving Deep into Data with Azure Data Explorer and Kusto Query Language with David Giard 
• Scaling in the AKS wonderland with and Nico Meisenzahl and Philip Welz
• Manage Identity and Access in Microsoft Entra ID with Uros Babic
• Support Santa by Automating Application Packaging and Patching with Rory Monaghan

This year, Festive Tech Calendar are raising money for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a global nonprofit with a mission to help young people learn how to code, create, and solve meaningful problems using technology. To learn more and donate, check out their JustGiving page.

Happy holidays

As mentioned in the video, everything showcased in this demo is possible with a free SquaredUp account. Create yours here to see for yourself.

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to reach out to us at hello@squaredup.com, we are a friendly bunch and would love to hear from you. Or, you’re welcome to pop me a message on LinkedIn. 

Happy holidays, and happy dashboarding!

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