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Last month, Starlink suffered its largest outage in years, arguably its biggest since becoming a major internet provider. In addition to the millions of individual customers around the world, the outage disconnected the Community Gateways, customers of Starlink’s new transit service. In this post, we delve into the outage and its impact on these far-flung networks.

As Kubernetes environments continue to grow in scale and complexity, having a robust monitoring strategy is no longer just good practice, it’s essential for survival. For engineering teams in 2025, effective monitoring and observability is the bedrock of performance, reliability, and cost control. This guide dives into the critical aspects of modern Kubernetes monitoring, from key metrics to the top tools/frameworks and the rising role of AI in managing these complex systems.

Managing technology in K-12 schools has become increasingly complex. With dozens of educational platforms, administrative systems, and communication tools running simultaneously, IT teams need a comprehensive k12 it monitoring dashboard to maintain visibility across their entire technology ecosystem.

Every IT team knows the feeling: your phone buzzes at 3 AM with yet another alert. Is it critical? Can it wait until morning? With dozens of monitoring tools and hundreds of potential failure points, incident alert management has become one of the most challenging aspects of maintaining reliable systems.

Earlier this year, we launched the StatusGator Women in Tech Scholarship to support and empower women pursuing careers in technology. We are thrilled to announce that our 2025 scholarship recipient is Lara Djukic, an inspiring young technologist whose vision blends innovation with a deep commitment to her community. Through the Bold.org scholarship platform, we’ve award Lara a $3,100 scholarship.

Managing technology in K12 schools means juggling dozens of critical platforms simultaneously. When Google Workspace goes down during morning classes, Canvas experiences issues during exam submissions, or PowerSchool becomes unavailable during grade entry periods, the impact ripples through entire school communities. The ability to monitor multiple school platforms from a centralized dashboard has become essential for educational IT teams.

When a service slows down, metrics will tell you that it’s happening but logs tell you why. For MySQL, slow queries can be a silent performance killer, gradually chewing through resources until users start complaining. By enabling MySQL’s slow query log and forwarding it to Loki (via Promtail), you can visualize query-level details right alongside your metrics on Grafana dashboards. This makes it easy to correlate what is slow (metrics) with what is causing the slowdown (logs).