Build the Azure DevOps dashboard you need
How to build the ideal dev team dashboard
Slack is great for communicating changes and events across a development team, but what’s missing is that ‘snapshot’ of the current state of play. Sure, you can switch between tabs for Jira, GitHub, your CI/CD tool and monitoring tools, but a dashboard that brings this all together makes it much easier for the whole team…
How to build a dashboard for any AWS CloudWatch data
Looking to keep an eye on logs and metrics from AWS or CloudWatch? There are several reasons you might want to build a CloudWatch dashboard somewhere outside of the CloudWatch console: To visualize data from multiple AWS accounts in one placeTo visualize CloudWatch data alongside data locked away in another tool or databaseTo share CloudWatch…
100% office-based to remote-first: SquaredUp’s journey
Back when everyone was talking about the ‘new normal’ and what the future of work would look like post-pandemic, SquaredUp was having a rethink too. SquaredUp has always been a 100%, office-based company with a heart for bringing people together. Richard Benwell, CEO, and the executive team had created a company that is truly fun,…
5 Azure DevOps Hacks: February Community Round-up
Catch up on the latest SquaredUp Community news, including topics like PowerShell and Azure Monitor.
5 VMware Hacks: January Community Round-up
Catch up on the latest SquaredUp Community news, including topics like PowerShell and Azure Monitor.
Is service catalog the modern CMDB?
It takes a village to build a large-scale digital service. Like a machine with a million moving parts, each is built and operated by dozens (sometimes hundreds) of individual teams, typically operating independently with their own strategy and tooling. Infrastructure complexity is a problem of the past, application complexity is the problem of the futureAWS…
SquaredUp, re:Invented
SquaredUp turned ten years old this month, a sure sign of adolescence for a budding tech startup. As with any important milestone, it’s cause for both celebration and reflection: who we are, where we come from, where we’re going. And that’s what makes the timing of our tenth birthday so profound – it’s right at…
3 reasons why reporting SLOs at scale is hard
Since Google SRE popularised the use of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), there has been a lot of talk about what they are, why they are used, and how they are implemented. Adopting SLOs can provide much-needed visibility of service performance, but the larger your organization, the more challenges you might run into. What are the unique challenges faced by SREs in larger organizations when measuring SLOs, and how can…
Incident response: Is MTTI the metric that matters most?
Outages hurt. Ask Mark Zuckerberg. At the beginning of October billions of users were unable to access Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram for several hours. Ouch. Of course, complete outages like Facebook’s are uncommon (although as we were writing this blog, we heard that hundreds of Tesla owners were locked out of their cars due to an outage). Complete outages can…
5 SQL Hacks: November Community Round-up
Catch up on the latest SquaredUp Community news, including topics like PowerShell and Azure Monitor.
Kusto: Table Joins and the Let Statement
Learn how to use Kusto (KQL) table joins and let statements in Azure Log Analytics.
Kusto: Custom Logs in Log Analytics
Part of our Kusto series, this is a thorough guide on how to use custom logs in Azure Log Analytics.