Does your SCOM environment run slow? Do you have too many unwanted alerts? Are you preparing for the upcoming upgrade? Don't worry. These issues are very common and frustrating, but thankfully also solvable.

.NET + DevOps Developer, Evidi Evidi – an IT consultancy and managed service provider based in Norway – are on a mission to help businesses harness the power of the Microsoft stack and realise their ambitions. With a large portfolio of services and a growing network of customers to manage, Evidi faced a challenge relatable to any MSP: They needed better visibility, and the solution had to be cost-effective and scalable.

SquaredUp is a flexible dashboarding and analytics platform that makes it really easy to turn your KQL queries into dashboards that you can use for monitoring or sharing. In this article, we’ll take a look at getting started with the Azure plugin for SquaredUp and build our first dashboard.

Microsoft has announced the generally availability of SCOM 2025. This version brings new features and improvements, and ensures a future-proof SCOM platform with support extending for at least the next decade.

The SquaredUp motto is Measure What Matters – sometimes though, the processes that really matter can be located at numerous different points up, down and across your organisational landscape. This can make surfacing your most important measures – i.e. your KPIs – somewhat problematic. At SquaredUp, we have been thinking hard about this problem and have now released the initial version of our solution – KPI roll-ups.

MetrixInsight for Citrix Logon Simulator is a powerful tool built on the GripMatix Logon Simulator for Citrix to ensure optimal performance and reliability within Citrix environments. By continuously conducting synthetic logon transactions, it enables IT teams to proactively monitor Citrix logon performance, addressing issues before they affect users.

Welcome to our November edition of the NiCE bi-monthly newsletter! We’re thrilled to share the latest updates, insights, and events to keep you ahead in the ever-evolving IT monitoring landscape, primarily revolving around Microsoft System Center. Whether you’re looking to stay current with new features, understand best practices, or network with fellow professionals, our newsletter has you covered.

As someone deeply invested in the evolution of SquaredUp, I’d like to share more about our search capability and how we designed the functionality. SquaredUp can connect to 100+ data sources, thousands of objects, tons of metrics, and and we offer many purpose-built out-of-the-box dashboards and monitors. We've deliberately designed our search experience to be able to handle the complexity of various data environments and make finding relevant information seamless and efficient.

What if I told you that you're using dashboards wrong? Imagine this: You're on a call with your team, staring at a big, static dashboard full of graphs and numbers. Someone pipes up, "Okay, so what now?" Everyone exchanges glances, unsure of how to move forward. You've got the data, but somehow, you're still stuck. If you’re nodding along, we feel you. The truth is, the way we’ve been using dashboards is outdated. They’re static. They’re rigid.