A recurring theme of modern monitoring tools is that they focus on the user, not the systems. To put it another way, while monitoring your infrastructure is essential, it matters more when your customers can’t interact with your application. That would mean lost sales, lost time, unhappy people – and unfortunately for us, unhappy people like to share how grumpy they are. It’s bad for business! But that’s why we’ve made Availability Monitoring in SquaredUp.

For those on an ITIL journey, ServiceNow appears to be the service to beat. ServiceNow has tremendous flexibility and thousands of different workflows to support your business. And if you’re using SCOM to populate your CMDB, you’re leaps and bounds ahead of the average organization. Sadly, that flexibility comes with the cost of being stuck inside of the ServiceNow web interface.

This week I had the honour of speaking at Silect’s MP University and my hot topic was Cookdown’s free PowerShell Authoring MP. I was looking to make the session a little fun, in homage to the original “Fun SCOM Monitoring” video from CTGlobal on monitoring a coffee machine with SCOM 2007 R2. So, I thought what’s the next best thing after coffee? Beer!

As the year draws to a close, we’ve got exciting news. In the new year, we will be launching SquaredUp version 5.0! So, what exactly is in this big, bold update, you ask? Expect a gorgeous new look and feel plus major improvements to our two most popular features – Open Access and Dashboard Designer. We’re also bringing you even more visualizations for your Web API integrations, so you can display data in the best possible way in your single pane of glass. The best part?

As a SCOM admin, you’re probably heavily involved with alert analysis and performance monitoring. You probably also know then, that while SCOM is a great monitoring tool, it leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to reporting on performance monitoring. I’ve got good news for you. SquaredUp sits on top of SCOM and completely changes the game. How? Why? Read on for a comparison and break down of all the reasons you should do it with SquaredUp.

ServiceNow is one of the most widely deployed ITSM tools within enterprise IT environments, and for good reason – they provide a highly customisable platform that allows organisations build the tools they need to their exact requirements. But you’ve got more than ServiceNow to manage and monitor – there’s SCOM, Splunk, and Solarwinds monitoring your infrastructure, also your APM and CI/CD tools too.

We who use SCOM know about its extensive monitoring capabilities, but the static nature of the SCOM console is not one of its strong points. You can’t drill down to see the data, or correlate data with other data types or alerts for the same object. To the delight of our customers, SquaredUp allows you to do all that and much more – so that you can get all the detail and insight you need, from the metrics you are already collecting.