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Dynatrace gives you incredibly deep observability data. But all that depth can bury the insights needed. In this blog, we show how to turn Dynatrace's complex telemetry into visual dashboards that actually make sense. Dynatrace is a leading observability and application performance monitoring (APM) platform, known for its deep insight into complex, modern cloud environments. With capabilities spanning infrastructure monitoring, real user monitoring, and security, Dynatrace offers powerful telemetry.

Microsoft Teams is a ubiquitous presence in workplaces all over the world. Prior to 2020, its usage was relatively moderate, with around 20 million users. However, global restrictions during the pandemic led to a 3,500% growth. Teams is now so central to business operations that Microsoft retired Skype in its favor. But this massive scale created a new problem – businesses needed better ways to monitor and report on their Teams usage.

ElasticSearch is one of the IT and software industry’s most established platforms for storing and analyzing log data. As its name suggests it also has a powerful search and analytics engine based on the ElasticSearch Query language. ElasticSearch itself is essentially a backend store, so if you want to explore and analyze your data, you will need a visualization layer such as SquaredUp and our ElasticSearch PlugIn.

VMware is a leading platform for virtualization and cloud infrastructure, widely used to manage compute, storage, and networking resources across on-premises and hybrid environments. While it offers powerful capabilities and extensive telemetry through tools like vCenter, navigating this data can be overwhelming – especially when trying to spot performance issues, capacity trends, or VM sprawl in real time. That’s where a solution like SquaredUp can make a significant difference.

Monitoring your systems isn't enough anymore. Neither is “asking questions about your system”. Operational Intelligence embraces observability to proactively deliver business insights, support decision-making, and accelerate innovation. It seems that as the observability market grows and more and more products come into the space, the meaning of the term observability itself becomes more and more nebulous.

After four years. Hundreds of meetings and conversations. Countless forms and paperwork submissions… …We’ve done it. SquaredUp is finally, officially B Corp certified We can now say that we are part of a unique global movement – and we couldn’t be more proud, excited, and motivated for our journey ahead.

In the realm of data and observability, timing is everything. Until now, SquaredUp provided fixed time options like the last hour, 12 hours, 24 hours, last week, and this month. While these options served many users well, we recognized that they lacked the flexibility you needed. Whether you're tracking long-term performance, comparing trends, or looking into specific events, we know these preset options could sometimes feel limiting.

Cloudflare is a widely adopted web performance and security platform, best known for its CDN, DDoS protection, and DNS services. While it provides rich telemetry and real-time analytics, the sheer volume and complexity of the data can make it hard to identify key trends or issues at a glance. This is where a solution like SquaredUp (or another dashboarding tool) comes in.

The HaloPSA plugin is a new addition to SquaredUp, and helps you create live dashboards that surface the important metrics – giving you and your team a single pane of glass for help desk performance, asset visibility, and client reporting. Why it matters: If your team uses HaloPSA to manage tickets, assets, and clients, then you already know how vital that data is for running smooth operations.

The Jira plugin is one of our most-used integrations and for good reason. Teams rely on it daily to stay on top of work, manage issues, and ship on time. As more people leaned on it, we saw a chance to make the experience even smoother. So, we gave it an upgrade. We’ve refreshed the out-of-the-box dashboards, simplified the data streams, and improved the overall experience. So, let’s take a closer look at what’s changed.