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Is service catalog the modern CMDB?
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.
5 easy steps to apply financial management to your cloud budget
Join Microsoft MVP Cameron Fuller and his colleague Tony Nguyen as they show you how the same ideas that apply to personal financial management also apply to handling your cloud consumption.
Azure Resource Graph Zero to Hero
In this session, Microsoft MVP and Azure expert Billy York takes us through the basics of Azure Resource Graph, including how Kusto Query Language (KQL) is used and its limitations in Resource Graph. He then dives into some real-world examples of how you can use Azure Resource Graph with KQL.
Application Observability in a Distributed World
Join Chris Reddington, Senior FastTrack for Azure Engineer at Microsoft for this Azure Management Talk webinar. Chris will give an overview of Application Insights and how it slots into the wider Azure Monitoring ecosystem.
Multi-tenant resource management at scale
In this Azure Management Talk webinar with Azure MVP Martin Ehrnst we take a closer look at Azure Lighthouse.
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.
Build beautiful dashboards with KQL
See what stunning dashboards you can create in SquaredUp using Kusto Query Language (KQL).
Introducing Azure Management Talk
Azure Management Talk is a bite-sized webinar series with a focus on all things Azure Management.