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Transform your IT service management data into actionable insights with dashboards that give your team real-time visibility without the setup headache.

Zabbix collects a huge amount of operational data—metrics, alerts, host status, and performance trends. But turning that data into dashboards people actually use is a different challenge. Most teams start with the built-in dashboards. Then the requests start coming: At that point, basic dashboards aren’t enough. Teams start looking for ways to augment Zabbix visualization with tools that improve usability, sharing, and flexibility.

ServiceNow holds a wealth of operational data—but turning that data into dashboards people actually use is a different challenge altogether. Most teams start with what’s available out of the box. Then come the requests: At that point, dashboarding stops being simple. It then has to be “augmented” - with easy shareability, ease of use, contextualization and hierarchy.

The public cloud has revolutionized IT by making infrastructure on-demand, scalable, and self-service. However, this convenience comes at a price. In the cloud, engineers can instantly spin up resources and spend company money with the click of a button or a line of code, bypassing traditional procurement and finance approval processes.

Modern enterprises operate across an increasingly complex mix of hybrid cloud services, and productivity platforms. As environments scale, stakeholders need a single pane of glass (SPoG) to understand what’s happening across IT operations without jumping across dozens of disconnected tools.

Jira is the backbone of project management for thousands of agile teams worldwide. But while Jira excels at tracking issues and sprints, its native reporting can leave teams wanting more — especially when it comes to sharing insights, visualizing trends, and integrating data from across the business. That’s where dedicated Jira reporting tools come in. In this guide, we rank the 5 best Jira reporting tools on the market today.

I've used the Web API plugin with a wide range of APIs, and each one taught me something new. But before diving into building, I learned to pause and ask: What am I actually trying to display? Not what data the API can give me, but what would be useful on a dashboard? That shift in thinking — from ‘fetch everything’ to ‘fetch what matters’ — shapes how I approach every integration.

Today marks a big milestone in our mission to bring more data, more context, and more visibility into a single, unified view. We’re excited to announce 16 brand‑new integrations, extending the range of data sources you can connect with just a few clicks. But the integrations themselves are only half the story.

If you’re looking for a dashboarding solution today, chances are you’ve looked at Grafana or SquaredUp — or both. Grafana is a popular open source dashboarding tool with on-prem and cloud variants, while SquaredUp is the SaaS, cloud-based unified dashboarding solution. Both offer a comprehensive list of data sources that they can plug into and build dashboards. As such, they both also offer an integration with Azure - which is the focus of our discussion today.

Dashboards are supposed to answer questions, not create more of them. But investigations don't stop at a single view. The moment you want to understand one specific thing in detail like a failing VM, a degraded service, a slow pipeline, dashboards start to break down. You end up either building yet another dashboard or searching through many different ones. SquaredUp's Perspectives changes this.