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A new perspective on dashboard sprawl

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.

Dashboard organization isn't about folders - it's about visibility

Having well-organized dashboards is just as important as having good dashboards. But dashboard organization shouldn’t just make things easy to find. It should provide structure that supports collaboration and efficient troubleshooting. It has to be more than a basic folder system. This post looks at how classic dashboarding tools handle organization today, where they fall short, and how SquaredUp Workspaces organize for visibility and shared context.

Notes from the Field: Ivanti Workspace Control blocking user logoff on Windows Server 2025

As part of our day-to-day consulting work at GripMatix, we spend a significant amount of time in various customer environments where we are designing, validating, and troubleshooting EUC platforms. This particular issue surfaced during work for one of our customers, where we were validating Ivanti Workspace Control (IWC) on a new Windows Server 2025 environment.

Getting Started with Splunk Dashboards

Splunk is a leading platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing logs across IT tools and systems. Well-known for its ability to handle vast volumes of log and event data, Splunk empowers organizations to gain real-time visibility into their systems and operations. However, while Splunk offers rich telemetry and analytics, its dashboards can sometimes become complex - making it difficult to surface the most critical insights quickly. That’s where SquaredUp can elevate the experience.
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Monitoring MongoDB

As enterprises increasingly rely on MongoDB to power modern applications, ensuring the database's performance, availability, and reliability has become critical. MongoDB's distributed architecture and dynamic workloads provide flexibility and scalability, but they also introduce monitoring challenges that can impact application performance and business continuity.

Getting the Right Signals: Mobile Observability with Embrace and SquaredUp

More than half of all connections to web services now originate from mobile devices. Mobile apps are no longer peripheral - they are central to how businesses engage customers, deliver services, and generate revenue. Despite this shift, many organizations still rely on observability tools that are fundamentally server-centric. These platforms are adept at monitoring backend health, but they often fail to capture what’s happening at the edge - on the mobile device itself.
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Free Versus Paid Monitoring Tools

Choosing the right monitoring strategy is critical in today's hybrid IT environments. This whitepaper explores open-source, commercial, and hybrid approaches through real-world scenarios, highlighting trade-offs in cost, flexibility, compliance, and operational efficiency. Learn how organizations of all sizes optimize observability, integrate legacy and cloud-native systems, and scale monitoring with confidence.