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From Microsoft SCOM to Dashboards

System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) remains one of the most capable on-premises monitoring platforms for Microsoft environments. However, as IT operations evolve toward real-time observability and self-service insights, traditional SCOM reporting and consoles can feel restrictive. This whitepaper explores practical ways to extend and modernize your SCOM visualizations using today's leading dashboarding technologies - including SquaredUp, Grafana, Power BI, and Azure Workbooks.

What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?

A modern web application is not a single thing. A single user request may touch a web server, a database, a cache layer, and several third-party APIs before a response comes back. And as AI tools generate more and more application traffic (API calls, background jobs, automated workflows), the volume and unpredictability of that traffic is growing. When something goes wrong, it could be any of it. When something is slow, it could be all of it at once.

Release v2.10: Secrets Management, Nagios Plugin Collector, Azure Monitor, and more

What’s New in Netdata v2.10 In this release, Netdata brings powerful new capabilities to help you monitor, troubleshoot, and understand your infrastructure faster without complexity. In this video, we walk through the key updates: Secrets Management – Securely manage sensitive configuration data Nagios Plugins Collector – Extend monitoring using existing Nagios plugins Azure Monitor – Bring Azure metrics into Netdata for unified visibility.

What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q1 2026? Logs, MCP Server, Better Alerting, and... a Secret Project

Q1 2026 has been one of our most eventful quarters yet for VictoriaMetrics Cloud. We shipped something we have been building towards for a long time, crossed a few infrastructure milestones, and started clearing the path for what is coming next to the most performant observability stack.

The Modern Messaging Primer: Navigating the Shift from Legacy Middleware to Open Source Innovation

The shift from legacy middleware to open-source innovation promises agility and cost savings, but introduces the 'Modernization Tax'—operational complexity that requires new approaches to observability, governance, and management across hybrid messaging environments.

Grafana 13 TL;DR - What's New (and Worth Your Time)

Grafana 13 is here! In this video, we walk through the biggest updates and improvements, from faster ways to build dashboards to new features that make Grafana easier to manage at scale. We cover things like: If you’ve ever struggled with broken dashboards, messy layouts, or just getting started from scratch, this release focuses on making those workflows a lot smoother. This is a TL;DR, so we’re just scratching the surface—but it should give you a solid sense of what’s new and what’s worth checking out.