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Dashboard Fridays: Sample VMware Status Dashboard

Join SquaredUp's Adam Kinniburgh and fellow virtualisation expert Shawn Williams as they showcase the VMware Status Dashboard. Built in SquaredUp with the easy-to-use PowerShell tile, this dashboard surfaces data from vCenter for Hosts and VM to provide a Virtualization Administrator the information they need at a glance. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and Shawn's top tips for building it yourself.

How to screen capture dashboards on a schedule with PowerShell

SquaredUp helps customers create dashboards that connect the dots. They do this by assisting users in visualizing and sharing data. And, for the most part, they do this by displaying in dashboards what is happening now. Of course, some visualizations show some historical values or whatnots, but tiles like the WebAPI tile only display a specific value at one particular moment in time. But have you ever wanted to “see” what your application looked like right before an outage?

Dashboarding Enterprise IT Tools with PowerShell

SquaredUp’s PowerShell visualizations provide limitless extensibility when it comes to visualizing your data. You can connect, manipulate, correlate, calculate, and visualize any data set from any tool into compelling metrics; but did you know you can also load third party PowerShell modules, compare metrics from SCOM and other data sources on the fly, visualize log files, connect to any database, and much more?

New Microsoft M365 Management Pack for SCOM

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.

Dashboard Server: Working with the Azure Tile

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.

Dashboard Server: Working with the ServiceNow tile

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 <>, configuring an integration to SNOW is much easier and more GUI based.