Plugins
What is a plugin?
Plugins connect SquaredUp to your data sources. There are loads of plugins for your different data sources and new plugins get added constantly. Most plugins require credentials like an API key, access token or other authentication methods. The docs of your data source will tell you how to get what you need to connect to SquaredUp.
Tip: After you entered everything you need to add the plugin you can choose to automatically create a workspace for the plugin. This is an easy way to see objects that come from the new plugin on an automatically created dashboard.
What happens when I add a plugin?
Most plugins will add two things to SquaredUp:
New Data StreamsA data stream brings you data to answer a specific question like "What's the health state of the objects?", "What kind of alerts are coming from this plugin for my servers?", "What's the average memory usage of this app?"
The magic of data streams is that they standardize data from all the different shapes and formats your tools use into a straightforward tabular format. While creating a tile you can tweak data streams by grouping or aggregating specific columns. Depending on the kind of data, SquaredUp will automatically suggest how to visualize the result, for example as a table or line graph.
New Types (for the objects that come from the plugin)What are types?
Every object in SquaredUp has a type. Types usually are imported when you add a plugin since new data sources often bring new types of objects (like domain controllers, tickets, projects, alerts, incidents, etc.). You can also add custom types if you imported data from a custom plugin to give those new objects nice looking types with an icon and the singular and plural forms of the type.
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