Daniel is a Site Reliability Engineer at k6.io. He’s especially interested in observability, distributed systems, and open source. During his free time, he helps maintain Grafana Tempo, an easy-to-use, high-scale distributed tracing backend. Distributed tracing is a way to track the path of requests through the application. It’s especially useful when you’re working on a microservice architecture.

We are delighted to announce that SquaredUp 5.1 is now available! With this latest update, we are introducing new integrations and visualizations that extend the picture of your business services and applications by unlocking even more of your data that is trapped within silos. You can now get insights on your enterprise applications from any angle! These features are available in all our products, including our newest product Dashboard Server.

We built Grafana Enterprise Metrics (GEM) to empower centralized observability teams to provide a multi-tenanted, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service experience for their end users. The GEM plugin for Grafana is a key piece of realizing this vision. It provides a point-and-click way for teams operating GEM to understand the state of their cluster and manage settings for each of the tenants within it.

In my previous blogs in the Dashboard Server Learning Path, we looked at working with the Web API tile and the PowerShell tile. In this instalment, let’s try the SQL tile. This tile will let you connect to any SQL database and run a SQL query straight from SquaredUp. This tile is also available in both the SquaredUp for SCOM and Azure products, so I have some familiarity with it already.