How to visualize CSV data with Grafana

While CSV data is often associated with popular spreadsheet apps like Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel, Grafana offers a number of capabilities to quickly visualize and analyze data stored in a CSV format. In this post, we’ll walk through an example of how to use Grafana to visualize any CSV file from anywhere on the web. More specifically, we will: Moving forward, you can also apply these steps to build any kind of dashboard within Grafana.

Getting Started with M365 dashboards

SquaredUp is a flexible dashboard and analytics platform that makes it really easy to dashboard your M365 and Intune usage and analytics. You can then use it for monitoring or sharing! In this article we’ll take a look at getting started with the M365 plugin for SquaredUp and building our first dashboard. Sign up for a free account if you’d like to follow along.

SLOs: a guide to setting and benefiting from service level objectives

If you’re running a technology-driven business, reliability isn’t optional—it’s essential. But how do you balance speed and innovation with a level of reliability that satisfies your customers? That’s where service level objectives (SLOs) come in. SLOs offer a framework for defining and achieving reliability goals, aligning technical efforts with user needs, and driving meaningful outcomes for your business.

How to Set Up Actually Useful SLOs | Introduction to SLOs | Grafana Labs

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) should be more than just numbers on a dashboard—they should help your team deliver real value to your users. In this video, Jake Swiss from Grafana Labs walks you through three simple steps to create SLOs that align with business goals and drive better decision-making. Step 1: Understand What Really Matters – Align SLOs with customer expectations Step 2: Define Clear, Measurable Targets – Use RED metrics (Rate, Errors, Duration) to track meaningful performance Step 3: Continuously Iterate & Fine-Tune – Adjust SLOs based on historical data and team feedback.

How to Overcome Alert Fatigue in Your Alerting System | Introduction to SLOs | Grafana Labs

Cut Through Alert Noise with SLOs! Tired of endless alerts that don’t reflect real issues? SLOs (Service Level Objectives) help reduce noise by focusing on what truly impacts users. Instead of reacting to every minor spike, set SLOs to trigger alerts only when reliability is at risk.

Top 3 tools for reporting Zendesk metrics

Zendesk is a popular choice for customer service and support, offering a range of tools to manage interactions and boost customer satisfaction. However, making sense of all the data it collects requires robust reporting tools. Zendesk Explore, Power BI, and SquaredUp are three powerful tools that can help you unlock valuable insights from your Zendesk data, but each has its unique strengths.

How to integrate performance testing and continuous profiling for deeper application insights

A key goal of performance testing is to ensure your applications perform well under various levels of load. While critical, these tests are often conducted with minimal insight into why a system performs a certain way during testing. Metrics, logs, and traces may tell part of the story, but can miss the deeper details. This is where continuous profiling comes in.