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SquaredUp for SCOM - Quick Win Video Series - Part 2: Alerts Tile

In this series we take you through some of the fundamentals of building and designing your own dashboards. We look at some of the tile types and visualizations that are available, show you how to run SCOM agent tasks from SquaredUp, and finish up with an example of using a SquaredUp dashboard to troubleshoot an issue. This video focuses on the Alerts Tile. We’ll discuss monitor and rule alerts and show you how to scope both a Donut and List Alerts tile.

SquaredUp for SCOM - Quick Win Video Series - Part 3: Status Tile

In this series we take you through some of the fundamentals of building and designing your own dashboards. We look at some of the tile types and visualizations that are available, show you how to run SCOM agent tasks from SquaredUp, and finish up with an example of using a SquaredUp dashboard to troubleshoot an issue. This video focuses on the Status Tile. We’ll show you how to scope Donut, Blocks, and Icons Status tiles, including a brief look at how to add custom labels.

SquaredUp for SCOM - Quick Win Video Series - Part 4: TopN Performance

In this series we take you through some of the fundamentals of building and designing your own dashboards. We look at some of the tile types and visualizations that are available, show you how to run SCOM agent tasks from SquaredUp, and finish up with an example of using a SquaredUp dashboard to troubleshoot an issue. This video focuses on TopN scoped Performance tiles. We’ll show you how to scope a Bar Top N Performance tile, and also how to clone and edit a tile.

SquaredUp for SCOM - Quick Win Video Series - Part 5: Dashboard Actions

In this series we take you through some of the fundamentals of building and designing your own dashboards. We look at some of the tile types and visualizations that are available, show you how to run SCOM agent tasks from SquaredUp, and finish up with an example of using a SquaredUp dashboard to troubleshoot an issue. This video focuses on the dashboard actions feature. We’ll show you how to configure actions, including running SCOM tasks, and adding external and internal links.

SquaredUp for SCOM - Quick Win Video Series - Part 6: NOC Dashboard

In this series we take you through some of the fundamentals of building and designing your own dashboards. We look at some of the tile types and visualizations that are available, show you how to run SCOM agent tasks from SquaredUp, and finish up with an example of using a SquaredUp dashboard to troubleshoot an issue. This video focuses on how to create a NOC dashboard. We’ll bring together what we’ve learned so far in this video series, whilst also introducing the Matrix tile, and show you how to share your dashboard using our Open Access feature.

SquaredUp for SCOM - Quick Win Video Series - Part 7: Using a NOC Dashboard

In this series we take you through some of the fundamentals of building and designing your own dashboards. We look at some of the tile types and visualizations that are available, show you how to run SCOM agent tasks from SquaredUp, and finish up with an example of using a SquaredUp dashboard to troubleshoot an issue. This video focuses on how to use a NOC dashboard. We’ll now use a NOC dashboard, and the drilldowns in SquaredUp, to help us resolve a problem in our environment.

The No. 1 Rule of Disaster Recovery

Let’s imagine you are running a hosting shop with highly visible production applications. Your team has backups, and you have a disaster recovery (DR) policy. You think you are ready to handle any real-world scenario in addition to checking all your compliance boxes. Your third-party backup tools are creating backups, and your implemented solutions have a brochure indicating restore capability.

Jaeger Essentials: Best Practices for Deploying Jaeger on Kubernetes in Production

Logs, metrics and traces are the three pillars of the Observability world. The distributed tracing world, in particular, has seen a lot of innovation in recent months, with OpenTelemetry standardization and with Jaeger open source project graduating from the CNCF incubation. According to the recent DevOps Pulse report, Jaeger is used by over 30% of those practicing distributed tracing.