Dashboarding

Dashboarding is the beating heart of SquaredUp. Everything the application does is built around helping you turn complex, scattered data into clear, interactive dashboards that drive operational intelligence.

SquaredUp’s dashboarding features give you the freedom to visualize all of your data in multiple ways, monitor system health, report KPIs and much more. And all of this while maintaining consistency, speed, and accuracy at scale. The result is dashboards that not only look good, but actually help your team operate better.

Object-aware dashboards

While traditional dashboards show the "what," modern operational environments demand the "why" and the "what to do next."

That's what SquaredUp's dashboards are built to answer. Instead of static charts and disconnected widgets, you get intelligent dashboards that surface the insights you need, when you need them.

It's all powered by the Map, through which deep object-awareness enables features such as drilldown, RollUp and perspectives.

The result goes far beyond simply visualizing data. A well-built dashboard becomes an interactive portal into your environment, one your team can use to explore relationships and uncover root causes, leading to faster, better-informed decisions. In other words: operational intelligence.

See Dashboards for more.

Dashboard examples by team

SquaredUp dashboards can be shaped to fit a wide range of operational needs, from monitoring infrastructure to supporting customers to managing complex services.

  • DevOps dashboards:
    Track deployment pipelines, release frequency, and error rates in one view. Use dashboard variables to switch between environments, and drill into a failing component to find the root cause.
  • MSP dashboards:
    Give each client their own view of uptime, SLA compliance, and device health, switching between customers with dashboard variables. Configure notifications to catch issues before they escalate.
  • Service desk dashboards:
    Consolidate incidents and alerts from multiple tools into one triage queue. Notifications make sure critical issues reach the right people.
  • Platform dashboards:
    Bring cloud, on-prem, and third-party metrics together to track compute, network, and application health. Filter by region, subscription, or cluster with dashboard variables.
  • Business service dashboards:
    Map how services and applications depend on each other, so a failure's origin is easy to trace. Dashboards surface object health, KPIs, and transaction performance alongside those relationships.

Work with dashboards

Each of these building blocks handles a different part of a dashboard: what it shows, how it's laid out, and how it responds to the viewer.

Dashboards

Dashboards are the canvas where your data comes together in SquaredUp. Each dashboard is made up of tiles that surface insights from your connected data sources, enriched with contextual logic such as variables, drilldowns, and perspectives.

Dashboards can be as simple or as sophisticated as you need. They might provide a high-level overview of service health, a tightly focused operational view for a specific team, or a deep analytical workspace for investigating an issue.

Regardless of complexity, every dashboard is powered by live data and object-awareness, ensuring that what you see is always current and meaningful.

See Dashboards to learn more.

Tiles

Tiles are the core building blocks of dashboards and come in various formats. Each tile can display a specific visualization, image or even embedded content. Tiles can be arranged, resized, and customized to suit different reporting needs.

See Tiles to learn more.

Expressions

Expressions allow you to alter how a piece of data is displayed or to create new data entirely by use of format expressions and value expressions.

See Expressions to learn more.

Timeframes

Timeframes control the temporal scope of the data that displays. You can apply predefined or custom ranges (such as rolling windows, calendar periods, or comparative intervals) to analyze trends and understand performance over time.

See Timeframes to learn more.

SQL Analytics

Turn on Multiple datasets on a tile to combine data from more than one source, then use SQL to query, join, and reshape them before they hit the chart.

SmartAssist can write and fix queries for you if you'd rather not write SQL by hand.

See SQL Analytics to learn more.

Workspaces

Workspaces organize dashboards into logical groups. Each workspace has its own dashboards, data sources, monitors and collections. They help you manage collaboration by keeping these elements coherently structured.

See Workspaces to learn more.

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