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Dashboard Fridays: Antarctic Observation Center

This Antarctic Observation Center dashboard shows important weather data for each of the four key research stations, information on the areas of research that they cover, and the human capacity of each station. Built for fun using the SquaredUp Web API plugin, this dashboard streams data from multiple websites including OpenWeatherMap and the British Antarctic Survey, and combines them into one easy view.

DORA Metrics Considerations

DORA metrics, not to be confused with the beloved children’s cartoon character, are a bit trendy at the moment in the world of technology. The DevOps Research and Assessment group (DORA) is run out of Google. They run surveys and do research into what makes organizations successful in the Digital Age. They’re probably most well known for their yearly State of DevOps Reports and the book Accelerate.

Dashboard Fridays: Home Solar Power Monitoring dashboard

In our latest Dashboard Fridays episode, Adam Kinniburgh showcases his Home Solar Power Monitoring dashboard built using SquaredUp and Amazon Timestream. This dashboard tracks the home energy system, which is monitored using Solar Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi in Adams garage. It shows how much solar power is being generated, how much energy is stored in the batteries, how much energy he's using, plus other metrics.

Dashboard Fridays: Fantasy Premier League Football Dashboard with Web API

This Fantasy Football dashboard shows the Cash League (league with cash prizes) and Tim's performance in it, so he can always see where he is in relation to first place. Tim decided it was time to put SquaredUp to work on his personal passion and build a dashboard that allows him to consume the information at a glance. All the data is pulled from the FPL Web API and includes monitoring to get the colors to show whether he's doing well or not.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample AWS dashboards

Join Adam Kinniburgh and Dan Watts as they showcase these out-of-the-box AWS dashboards, which are instantly loaded up in your SquaredUp environment when you connect to AWS. These SquaredUp AWS dashboards allow engineers to have a better understanding of their AWS environments immediately, with the possibility of adding metrics from other sources to support the environment view. Stay tuned to see a walkthrough of each dashboard, and understand the challenges they solve.