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Introducing SquaredUp dashboards for SCOM

Despite its wealth of monitoring data, SCOM is often seen as a source of noisy alerting and can lack visibility of problems before they impact the business. SquaredUp transforms SCOM into one of the most visible and highly valued tools in your IT organisation. Founder and CEO, Richard Benwell, gives a quick taste of what SquaredUp for SCOM can do in your SCOM environment.

APM Tools: Top Real-World Use Cases

Application performance monitoring (APM) is an important monitoring practice used in tech organizations today, but it hasn’t always been this way. Until somewhat recently, the concept was seen by many as an expensive luxury. No longer, APM is an absolute requirement to keep today’s applications healthy and performant. “APM tool” was a phrase likely to raise many an eyebrow.

Monitoring Challenges Emerge as Agencies Embrace Container Technology

Container technology is catching on big-time in the federal government as agencies such as the USDA and the National Institutes of Health look to containers to simplify software development and reduce costs. Containers offer enormous advantages over traditional “waterfall” application development processes. A containerized approach makes it easier for developers to create and deploy software faster and with fewer errors.

Automating Serverless Tasks with the Lumigo CLI

Here at Lumigo, our mission is to help customers succeed with serverless by solving the observability problem and letting them focus on adding business value with serverless technologies. And to do that, we love to eat our own dogfood – be it using the same serverless technologies that our customers use and even using Lumigo to monitor Lumigo itself! That way, we feel your pain and we find solutions to problems that you care about.

Communicating Strategically with Manual Reporting Availability (Part 3)

In my prior two blog posts, we focused on creating a bunch of Enterprise Applications (EAs), tagging those EAs, and then updating the Status dashboard to only show those EAs that are Critical Service Offerings (CSO). For this blog post, we will create some relationships and demonstrate how alerting behaves using SquaredUp's Manual Reporting Availability functionality available in the EAM tier of the product. For this post, we're going to do amazing stuff!

How to get the most from your ITSM monitoring integrations?

Before talking about integration, let’s take a look at your non-automated Service Management processes. There isn’t a right or wrong answer as this varies based on your needs, think through the below questions to get a perspective on how tasks flow within your company today.

How can I convert SCOM alerts into actionable ServiceNow Incidents?

Firstly, let’s look at why it is so valuable to integrate SCOM and ServiceNow. There are lots of tools available to help you integrate SCOM and ServiceNow. So, the next step is to understand which one will provide your business with the best solution. To help you work through this decision we recommend you ask yourself the following questions.

Martello iQ and Azure Monitor, How Do the Two Products Compare?

Microsoft Monitoring health and usage information is a critical maintenance task for any site or application, whether it’s running in your on-premises datacenter, hybrid or public cloud environment, or hosted environment. Today’s challenge is that enterprises still require end-to-end monitoring insights of their running (and not running) application workloads, while also knowing that they are losing ground on the physical characteristics of managing their own datacenters.