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MetrixInsight Alerting Beyond Citrix Director/Monitor

Sep 9, 2025 By GripMatix In GripMatix
MetrixInsight for Citrix VAD/DaaS surpasses Citrix Director/Monitor in many ways. Director/Monitor is useful for day-to-day visibility, but it is not a true enterprise monitoring platform. MetrixInsight adds much more, also when it comes to alerting and enterprise monitoring. It closes important gaps that can directly impact user experience when capacity or performance issues slip through unnoticed. One clear example is how operational VDA capacity is handled.
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Top 3 Jira reporting tools: SquaredUp vs Power BI vs Jira

Sep 3, 2025 By Blog In Squared Up
A recent survey revealed that developers and engineering teams waste 8+ hours a week on inefficiencies in their role. Poor reporting tools are a main contributor, with Jira being regarded as a frequent source of friction. But since Jira is so deeply embedded in most organizations' infrastructure and processes, replacing it is not really an option. Rather, the solution lies in optimizing how users interact with it rather than abandoning it altogether.
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Getting started with Jira dashboards

Aug 28, 2025 By Blog In Squared Up
Jira is an industry favorite when it comes to managing software projects, yet its native dashboards can sometimes leave teams wanting more insight. The default views give a general update, but often lack the connection to the day-to-day activity happening in other parts of your workflow. As organizations use a wide mix of modern tools – from code repositories and cloud services to spreadsheets and reporting apps, it’s easy for critical details to get scattered or overlooked.
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Atlassian Bitbucket Monitoring on Microsoft SCOM

Aug 21, 2025 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt
As part of a customer project, we developed a custom Bitbucket Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). This tailored solution enables IT operations teams to monitor key performance and health metrics of Bitbucket environments, ensuring planning and bug-tracking platforms remain available and performant. With this Use Case paper, we aim to share our knowledge with the SCOM community, highlighting the possibilities of advanced monitoring on Microsoft SCOM and helping teams improve their day-to-day tasks.
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The first rule of DORA Metrics...

Aug 15, 2025 By Blog In Squared Up
DORA Metrics are widely regarded as the gold standard for measuring the performance of software development teams. The metrics themselves though are generic, high-level pointers – they are not an instruction manual. Adopting the DORA approach is the first step down the path to continuous improvement. The next steps are deciding how the measures should be defined in the context of your own organisations processes and then figuring out how to retrieve (and present) the relevant data.
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