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July 30 is System Administrator Appreciation Day. We honor all 33,000 ServiceNow system administrators who help make the world of work better for people. From overseeing instance security updates and critical configurations to proactively maintaining instance health, you are critical to the success of ServiceNow projects. Thank you. To show our appreciation, we want to ensure you know how to prepare for every stage of the system administrator journey.

Technological advances and emerging networking concepts are constantly shaping our IT infrastructure. Networks are no longer limited to traditional networking constraints such as its static nature, but are continually evolving to improve efficiency by spanning across wired, wireless, virtual, and hybrid IT environments. This IT evolution drives organizations to advance digitally and support computational requirements to meet their business objectives.

When developing large, customer-facing applications, it’s paramount to have visibility into real user behavior in order to optimize your UX. Without a direct view into what users are actually doing when navigating your app, it can be difficult to reproduce bugs and understand how aspects of your frontend design are causing user frustration and churn. With Datadog RUM’s Session Replay feature, currently available in beta, you can watch individual user sessions using a video-like interface.

The NiCE Log File Monitor Management Pack 2.0 is a FREE solution supporting the SCOM Community in next-level log file analysis. It helps IT performance and security data analysts identify errors causing transactions and queries to take too long or not run at all. Software-related bugs, security issues, or erroneous configurations that impact website or application performance are figured out quickly by employing improved templates for alert rules, performance rules, or monitors.

In the IT team at Redox, I wear two hats: Software Development Manager and DBA. I’m the only DBA in the team, so if anything goes wrong it’s my job to identify and fix it. As you might imagine, this can be challenging when being a DBA isn’t your full-time role. Based in Sydney, Redox is one of the leading chemical and ingredients distributors in the world, with over 350 employees across our locations in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and the US.

Logz.io is proud to launch a new partnership with Microsoft that enables Azure customers to directly integrate with Logz.io’s platform from within the Azure Console. This integration importantly allows Azure developers to begin monitoring their workloads faster than ever before, using the open-source technologies that their teams love. Check out this video for a demonstration of how it works.