Getting started
SquaredUp is a unified visibility layer that provides an end-to-end view of all your business-critical applications. Connect to 100+ data sources through a versatile interface offering flexible dashboarding, effortless monitoring, powerful analytics, and universal search across your tech stack.
Powered by our data mesh architecture, SquaredUp lets you correlate your data across teams and tools – all without the costs and complexity of a data warehouse.
Are you ready to level up your operational intelligence? This article walks you through the foundations of using SquaredUp, and sets you up with the building blocks to achieve full visibility across your tools and services.
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1. Adding a data source
First, let's learn how to connect SquaredUp to a data source, so you can visualize the data that is most useful to your organization.
Once connected, SquaredUp can index, explore, and visualize the data from your source through dashboards, data streams, objects and more.
See Adding a data source to get started.
2. Building a dashboard
Once you're comfortable with hooking up your data sources, the next step is learning how to turn that raw data into clear, actionable insights.
Dashboards are the primary way you visualize and share information in SquaredUp, and they’re designed to be both powerful and easy to use. Each dashboard is constructed from a combination of tile types, which you can mix and match to tell a story.
See Building a dashboard for a detailed tutorial.
3. Monitoring a tile
After getting to grips with building dashboards, it's time to start leveraging some of SquaredUp's more advanced features – starting with monitoring.
Monitors are used to watch for changes in your data and signal when a specified state or threshold is matched. Pro and Enterprise users can even provide scripts for even more in-depth control over monitors.
Once your monitor is configured, SquaredUp can alert you when its state changes by sending notifications.
See Monitoring a tile to learn more.
4. Sharing a dashboard
Now your dashboards are loaded with insights, it's time to start spreading that operational intelligence. Take a look at sharing view-only access to your dashboard, even with users that don't have a SquaredUp user license!
See Sharing a dashboard to learn how.
5. Inviting a user
What's better than a single user building dashboards that empower their operational workflow? A whole team of people building them of course!
SquaredUp enables teams to build and share dashboards together, breaking down silos and accelerating decision-making.
See Inviting a user to begin collaborating.
6. Exploring data
SquaredUp isn't just about static data on a screen. It's all about how you dive into that data to explore relationships, dependencies and the anatomy of your environment.
Through SquaredUp's exploration features you can go beyond the "what happened" and start revealing the "why it happened" and ,more importantly, the "what to do next".
See Exploring data to start diving in.
Next steps
- Looking to carry out more advanced manipulation of your data? Take a look at SQL Analytics to query before you visualize.
- Add more data sources? Why stop at one? See Data Sources
- Choose a display theme - Light or dark? You decide! See Organization home
- Check out our Blog for how to get the most out of SquaredUp and watch our Product feature videos.