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SCOM 2022: the most exciting updates

Technical Evangelist, SquaredUp Great news for the SCOM community – SCOM 2022 is here! SCOM isn’t going anywhere and it’s only getting better. We saw this proven in the Big SCOM Survey Results 2021 where more than half of respondents said they were going to increase their SCOM deployment to monitor more of their existing and new infrastructure.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample SQL AdventureWorks Dashboard

Join Adam Kinniburgh and Shawn Williams in this latest Dashboard Fridays episode on SQL AdventureWorks. Microsoft provides a common dataset called AdventureWorks when learning how to use SQL Server. Using SquaredUp, the AdventureWorks dataset can easily be visualized in any organization. In this short video, we'll demonstrate how this dashboard was built using SquaredUp dashboards, the challenges it solves, and how you can easily replicate it in your own environment.

New release: SquaredUp 5.4 - Bring your answers to the surface

SquaredUp 5.4 is here and it’s got some brilliant new features and upgrades to help you troubleshoot and find answers faster than ever. You’ll find the upgrades across all three SquaredUp editions – for SCOM, Azure, and the free Community Edition. Here are the highlights in the new release: Check out our release webinar for a detailed walkthrough and demo.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample au2mator Services Dashboard

Our au2mator customers heavily use the au2mator Self Service Portal to present automation as a delegated task to the Service Desk, Users, and Admins. This dashboard shows how au2mator were able to visualize all their services within a single SquaredUp dashboard. Using SQL, PowerShell, Azure Log Analytics, and Web Content, au2mator made a dashboard that looks simple but visualizes a lot. Join Adam Kinniburgh and special guest Michael Seidl from au2mator as they demonstrate how this dashboard was built, the challenges it solves and how you can get the dashboard pack!

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Excel Business KPIs Dashboard

The Management Team at SquaredUp needed a dashboard to visualise key metrics related to the different sectors of business to keep an eye on the KPIs and track targets. This dashboard keeps track of the different key targets set for the business over three time periods and highlights variations. The dashboard also plots the trend on different values hit over the time and helps identify fluctuations.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Microsoft Teams Dashboard

Join SquaredUp's Adam Kinniburgh and Purdue University's Daniel Parrott as they showcase this sample Microsoft Teams dashboard used by Purdue to visualize key Microsoft Teams usage metrics for their online classrooms. Built using SquaredUp, this dashboard keeps track of the total number of Teams and which are empty, allowing them to pinpoint issues with the data load to create the teams or update issues. The dashboard also monitors for empty class sections to help identify issues with the class selection process.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample SolarWinds Orion Nodes Dashboard

This SolarWinds Orion dashboard gives an overview of nodes alongside a summary of health, using the Web API and dashboard sharing capabilities of SquaredUp. Using the powerful Web API tile in SquaredUp, the SolarWinds dashboard connects to the SolarWinds Information Services REST API endpoint, using SQL queries in the request data, in real-time. Join Adam Kinniburgh and Customer Solutions Engineer Casey as they showcase how it was made, the challenges it solves, and their top tips for building it yourself.

Dashboard Fridays: Azure VM Health Dashboard

Adam is back for our final Dashboard Fridays video of 2021, and is joined by Azure expert and community hero Cameron Fuller of Catapult Systems! The Azure Management Services team at Catapult required a quick way to visualize the key health pieces for their customers, using a visually intuitive dashboard. In this bitesize video, Cameron will showcase this sample Azure VM Health dashboard focused on free disk space, heartbeat and CPU utilization. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and how you can easily get your hands on it.

Azure Thames Valley: Azure CosmosDB as a Knowledge Graph (in SquaredUp's Cloud product)

In this session, Richard Jones, SquaredUp CTO, shares how SquaredUp's new Cloud product utilises Azure CosmosDB as a graph database, to provide an explorable and searchable knowledge graph of all your applications, services, and resources spanning all your tools and platforms.