Looking to keep an eye on logs and metrics from AWS or CloudWatch? There are several reasons you might want to build a CloudWatch dashboard somewhere outside of the CloudWatch console: Whatever the reason, we’ve put together a write-up to help you plug into CloudWatch to surface any logs or metrics in one place, for easy alerting and sharing, using the SquaredUp observability portal. You can get your own SquaredUp account, just head over to squaredup.io/get-started to sign-up for a free account.

We frequently get asked questions about how to maintain and optimize SCOM. So here are the top SCOM questions we get asked and answers from the experts.

Citrix ADC plays a central role in Citrix environments and its performance impacts the user experience. Therefore, the availability and performance of the Citrix ADC appliance are crucial. The new Citrix ADC Management Pack is a complete monitoring solution providing deep visibility into ADC performance. It extends the end-to-end service monitoring capabilities of Microsoft SCOM to include the Citrix ADC infrastructure.

SCOMathon 2022, hosted by SquaredUp and Cookdown on May 10, delivered massive SCOM content packed into 21 sessions, 3 keynotes, and 3 panel discussions. The Microsoft SCOM team, MVPs, experts, and customers discussed all things SCOM, including the latest updates, best practice tips, specific use case scenarios, and lessons learned during their SCOM migrations. 245 attendees joined the sessions to learn and chat with their peers. As every year, a donation is made based on participants per session.

We’ve just released SquaredUp 5.5! As always, you’ll find some great new additional features as well as enhancements in the SquaredUp Community, Azure, and SCOM Editions. Plus, the new 5.5 release works with SCOM 2022. Here’s a quick overview of what’s new: Check out the release webinar here or keep reading for all the juicy details.

VMware administrators can breathe a little easier today with the release of the latest OpsLogix VMware management pack for System Center Operations Manager. The new update includes a new feature for Ransomware vulnerability monitoring, designed to decrease the attack surface for your VMware infrastructure and keep your data safe. This new addition to the popular OpsLogix VMware Management Pack is free for anyone using our solution today.

SCOM 2022 has been recently made GA and I, coming from a SCOM background, was pretty interested in checking out the latest SCOM product. Luckily, Azure Stack HCI management packs were recently released too, so it was as if the stars had lined up for me to drop everything else and check out this new management pack with SCOM 2022. And that is exactly what I did!

It is going to excite your fellow Citrix engineers for sure!

Since its origins as MOM 2000, SCOM has been widely regarded for being awesome at two things: firstly, being the hands-down best solution for monitoring Windows Server environments (it is Microsoft’s monitoring tool, after all); and secondly, being an extensible monitoring platform that can act as a single pane of glass across your data center environment.