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August 2024

AVD Performance Dashboard

In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building an Azure Virtual Desktop dashboard. This dashboard provides users with the visibility they need into the status of Azure Virtual Desktop. The Azure Virtual Desktop dashboard combines CloudReady and Service Watch metrics for a holistic view of Azure Virtual Desktops availability and performance. When issues occur, users can quickly review the dashboard to identify whether the issues is limited to an office, individual device, or affecting Azure Virtual Desktop as a whole.

Network Performance Dashboard

In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building a Network Performance dashboard. This dashboard provides users with the visibility they need into the status of their network performance from their offices down to an individual users device. Obtaining this single pane of glass visibility is made easy with the combination of both CloudReady and Service Watch metrics into dashboards. When utilizing these dashboards, users can quickly identify which networks are performing poorly, allowing them to quickly resolve issues and ensure end users have an optimal experience.

Microsoft Teams Health Dashboard

In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building a Teams Health Dashboard by combining the collected metrics for CloudReady Synthetics and Service Watch Desktop. The Teams Health Dashboard provides users with a holistic view of Microsoft Teams availability and performance. When an issue occurs, users can quickly review the Teams Health Dashboard and identify whether the issue is limited to an office or affecting Microsoft Teams as a whole.

Email Health Dashboard

In this dashboard tutorial video, we’ll be walking you through building a Microsoft Exchange and Outlook dashboard utilizing CloudReady Synthetics and Service Watch Desktop. This dashboard is a great first stop when diagnosing user email issues. When an issue comes up, engineers can quickly review the CloudReady data available in the dashboard to identify if an office or Exchange Online is experiencing issues or an outage.
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How to Monitor Your Email Services

Verifying email performance is more than the basic understanding of message flow. Outbound mail in the form of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and inbound mail through MAPI or Microsoft's Graph API only parts of email systems to monitor, usually through pings or basic delivery confirmations. Often, once email is moved to Exchange Online, even basic visibility of mail flow and reliable delivery is lost. Many subsystems go into efficient email deliverability, especially once multiple email hygiene providers are added to the mix.

Actionable Alarms Dashboard

In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building an Actionable Alarms dashboard. This dashboard provides users with the visibility they need into the status of their SaaS solutions as well as how their end-user devices are performing. Dashboards allow combining both CloudReady and Service Watch data into a single pane of glass for visibility. Utilizing the Alarm widgets, users can quickly identify what issues need to be investigated while quickly being able to access the affected resources for review.