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Press Release: Kubernetes Management Pack Announcement

Today OpsLogix announces the upcoming release of their new Kubernetes Management Pack. This product is designed to help organizations monitor their Kubernetes clusters using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). The management pack provides comprehensive monitoring of all aspects of your Kubernetes environment, from individual nodes and pods to entire clusters.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Microsoft Teams Dashboard

Join SquaredUp's Adam Kinniburgh and Purdue University's Daniel Parrott as they showcase this sample Microsoft Teams dashboard used by Purdue to visualize key Microsoft Teams usage metrics for their online classrooms. Built using SquaredUp, this dashboard keeps track of the total number of Teams and which are empty, allowing them to pinpoint issues with the data load to create the teams or update issues. The dashboard also monitors for empty class sections to help identify issues with the class selection process.

Cloverleaf and Customized Management Packs

Every business is different, and every IT environment has its own set of challenges. Customized SCOM Management Packs are created to meet the monitoring and automation requirements of your company's critical applications. OpsLogix offers a wide range of off-the-shelf monitoring products, but for companies working with niche applications, these are not always applicable.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample SolarWinds Orion Nodes Dashboard

This SolarWinds Orion dashboard gives an overview of nodes alongside a summary of health, using the Web API and dashboard sharing capabilities of SquaredUp. Using the powerful Web API tile in SquaredUp, the SolarWinds dashboard connects to the SolarWinds Information Services REST API endpoint, using SQL queries in the request data, in real-time. Join Adam Kinniburgh and Customer Solutions Engineer Casey as they showcase how it was made, the challenges it solves, and their top tips for building it yourself.

Top tips to extend SCOMs monitoring

In today’s monitoring world most SCOM admins are pulling data from a range of tools and applications, as well as cloud platforms. It can be difficult to sift through all this data, let alone distill it down into a useful format. SCOM is a great resource for making this happen, and if it’s done well can be a superb monitoring hub for your other applications. But how do you get SCOM to consume data from other sources?

A successful Monitoring as a Service Case: Refinery and Base Oil Industry

Saving time, money, and resources while keeping your IT infrastructure better monitored than ever – that’s what one of our customers in the refinery and base oil industry did. By implementing our Monitoring as a Service, they managed to turn unstructured monitoring into high quality, consistent such. Their biggest pain point was the lack of time allocated for monitoring activities.

Connection Center in 3 mins

Cookdown's Connection Center is designed to make SCOM your single source of truth. Find out all about how it works, our code-free integrations, and much more. Unlock SCOMs full potential by connecting it to all your IT enterprise tools and you'll never miss a critical SCOM alert again! The setup is super simple! To get started just download a FREE 30-DAY TRIAL and you'll be syncing alerts in minutes.

Connection Center Deep Dive

A deep dive into Cookdown's Connection Center is designed to make SCOM your single source of truth. Find out all about how it works, our code-free integrations, and much more. Unlock SCOMs full potential by connecting it to all your IT enterprise tools and you'll never miss a critical SCOM alert again! The setup is super simple! To get started just download a FREE 30-DAY TRIAL and you'll be syncing alerts in minutes.