Microsoft have announced a new management pack for Office 365 – M365! It completely replaces the Office 365 management pack and is packed with new capabilities. Aakash Basavaraj, Program Manager at Microsoft, and Sameer Mhaisekar, Technical Evangelist at SquaredUp, joined Bruce Cullen, Director of Products at Cookdown, to reveal the new capabilities of the M365 management pack and the accompanying dashboard pack created for SquaredUp.
SquaredUp, Technical Evangelist In this part of the Dashboard Server Learning Path, let’s take a look at the Azure tile. This tile will allow you to connect to and query App Insights and Log Analytics workspaces using Kusto Query Language( KQL), which offers features such as sorting, projection and calculated values, which we can use to control the display of data in our dashboard. If you are new to KQL, We have a series of blogs that can help you get started.
SquaredUp, Technical Evangelist This should be a quick one. As some of the existing SquaredUp customers might recognize, this tile is basically an enhanced version of the more generic WebAPI tile – with the enhancement being easy authentication. In comparison to the <
If you’ve checked out SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure and decided for one reason or another that it wasn’t the right tool for you, you are in for a treat! Our latest free tool, Dashboard Server, addresses many of the same pain points, but this time, for a variety of platforms not tied to SCOM or Azure. On the flip side, if you’re currently using SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure, don’t click away!
If you’ve checked out SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure and decided for one reason or another that it wasn’t the right tool for you, you are in for a treat! Our latest free tool, Dashboard Server, addresses many of the same pain points, but this time, for a variety of platforms not tied to SCOM or Azure. On the flip side, if you’re currently using SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure, don’t click away!
Every enterprise has its arsenal of tech tools to tackle an array of different challenges. If you’re using SquaredUp for SCOM, you already have the best dashboard for SCOM data – but what if you could track all the metrics from all your tools on a single dashboard? Typically, to get the full picture of your infrastructure, you need the right toolset to connect to Web API, a SQL database, or through other means.
Grafana is free and powerful - a mainstay in DevOps and IT dashboarding. It’s an open-source visualization platform that lets you visualize data in real-time from almost any database. SquaredUp Dashboard Server is, at first glance, quite similar! You can dashboard just about any data to get real-time visualizations. All for free. So… The answer is… Yes, if you want enterprise scale dashboards hosted on Windows Server that are super-fast to set up (and usable by anyone).
Grafana is free and powerful - a mainstay in DevOps and IT dashboarding. It’s an open-source visualization platform that lets you visualize data in real-time from a variety of data sources. SquaredUp Dashboard Server is, at first glance, quite similar! You can dashboard just about any data to get real-time visualizations. All for free.
We’ve seen how much you love SquaredUp. But we’re also aware that opening up access to your SCOM and Azure data can sometimes hold you back from sharing the joy of powerful dashboarding with other teams. And what about trying to get an overview of multiple SCOM management groups without having to log into each one individually? We have the perfect solution for both problems.
I’ll come clean and admit it – this part of the series will be a bit interesting given the fact that I know very little about Elasticsearch. So really, this is an honest test of the question – “can I still build something good with Dashboard Server even if I only have nominal knowledge of the tool where the data is sourced from?”
