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Syslog servers are essential for centralized log management, helping network engineers monitor, troubleshoot, and secure network devices efficiently. This guide walks you through setting up a syslog server from scratch, focusing on practical steps using rsyslog on a Linux system—a common and robust choice for syslog collection. Windows does not have a native syslog server, so you need third-party software.

GCP’s recent outage on June 12th was a reminder of just how interconnected modern architectures are. The 2 hour and 28 minute outage affected dozens of companies and spanned 80+ Google services and products. But what was really illuminating was just how far the outage spread due to hidden dependency risks. Many companies that don’t run on GCP were startled to find their services suddenly affected because they had dependencies or depended on vendors that did use GCP.

As I sit down to write this, I can’t help but feel a wave of nostalgia wash over me. I’m Sara Stamas, VP of Marketing at GitKraken, and I’ve had the incredible privilege of being part of this company for over a decade (yes, before GitKraken was even a twinkle in an Axosoft developer’s eye).

At StatusGator, our mission is to make status transparency effortless—for you and your users. Today, we’re introducing a new way to keep your users informed in real time: the Status Modal Embed. Now you can display a compact, customizable modal on your website that shows the current status of your services—incidents, maintenance, or full operational status—all with a direct link to your full status page.

Over $44.5 billion in cloud spend goes to waste annually, per the FinOps Foundation. No wonder reducing unnecessary costs is critical to protecting your margins. A logical place to start? Cloud service pricing. Providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud continue to evolve their pricing models. They are offering new discounts, regional rates, and shifting commitments. All to win your business. Yet, a cloud pricing comparison alone doesn’t give you a complete picture.

This series of articles discusses the development of a SOTA Open Smart Ring － a tiny wearable packed with electronics that fits on your (even the smallest) finger. We dive deep into what it means to develop such a product, its challenges, and ultimately, how to make it a manufacturable and usable piece.

Japanese organizations are focused on controlling costs and limiting complexity—and they might be getting ready to broaden their adoption at just the right time, according to analysis of a micro survey on observability recently conducted by Grafana Labs. Observability is an evolving space in Japan, and this is the first time Grafana Labs has run a Japanese version of our annual Observability Survey.

June 12, 2025. A date most of the Internet won’t remember — but anyone relying on Google Cloud will. In the span of minutes, a routine quota update snowballed into global disruption. APIs stopped responding. Dashboards stayed green. And across continents, teams scrambled to figure out if the problem was theirs — or Google's. It wasn’t a cyberattack. It wasn’t a datacenter fire.

In our Go projects, we rely on a consistent and battle-tested stack of libraries that help us build reliable, maintainable, and scalable systems. We started using Go in our stack many years ago (before Go v1) and therefore many of our choices have changed over the years. Here in this post, I wanted to share some of the libraries we use regularly to power our Go apps.

TL;DR A Service Level Agreement (SLA) defines the required uptime for a service. An SLA uptime calculator helps convert uptime percentages into actual allowed downtime across different timeframes. This guide explains how these calculators work, why uptime matters, and how to monitor performance to meet SLA targets.