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ServiceNow reveals plans to acquire observability platform Lightstep
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ServiceNow acquires Lightstep, aims to leverage observability across enterprises
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ServiceNow to Acquire Lightstep, Combining Next-Generation Observability with the World’s Leading Enterprise Digital Workflow Platform
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Lightstep delivers on the promise of AIOps with Change Intelligence platform
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VMblog Expert Video Interview with Ben Sigelman of Lightstep - Observability for Microservices or Serverless
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The Resilience Roundtable: A discussion about chaos engineering and more
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Developers: How observability complements the future of monitoring
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Lightstep adds AWS Lambda observability, also shares technology with OpenTelemetry
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Lightstep’s OpenTelemetry Extension Helps Make Lambda Telemetry Data More Accessible
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Lightstep creates new AWS Lambda extension for monitoring serverless, contributes it to the OpenTelemetry community
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Lightstep creates new AWS Lambda extension for monitoring serverless, contributes it to the OpenTelemetry community
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What observability into Kubernetes can bring to you with Daniel "Spoons" Spoonhower - Episode 70 - What the Dev?
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VMblog expert video interview with Daniel Spoonhower of Lightstep - the cutting-edge distributed tracing tool
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Experiment With OpenTelemetry: Play with the future cloud native metrics framework, now
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Identifying top 20 vendors for key IT performance requirements
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Lightstep announces new GitHub Action, bringing observability data directly to GitHub to avoid problematic code deploys
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SD Times news digest: Lightstep announces new GitHub Actions, Gitpod adds native integration with GitLab, and Xamarin
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Lightstep makes it possible to understand complex applications with one line of code
VMBlogRead moreRead moreUsing distributed tracing to get better coverage with chaos engineering
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Lightstep's OpenTelemetry Launchers simplify integration to line of code
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Lightstep helps developers make sense of complex apps with OpenTelemetry Launchers
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Lightstep’s observability solution helps developers better understand the health of systems and services
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SD Times news digest: .NET 5.0 Preview 2, the Lightstep observability platform, and Testlio 3.0 introduces networked testing
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Lightstep unveils new observability platform to replace conventional monitoring solutions
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LightStep Announces Solution to Empower Developers with the Fastest Way to Identify Performance Regressions During and After a Deployment
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Q&A: Ben Sigelman on the emergence of “deep systems” in microservices
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Emerging Technologies and New Technical Concepts will Introduce New Challenges and Opportunities in 2020
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He Built A Core Technology At Google And Now Raised $70 Million To Change The DNA Of Software Development
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Team OpenCensus or OpenTracing? It’ll be neither and both now: Hello, OpenTelemetry
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Recommendations When Starting with Microservices: Ben Sigelman at QCon London
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Three Pillars with Zero Answers: Rethinking Observability with Ben Sigelman
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LightStep picks up $41M for its container-friendly monitoring platform
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Microservices: Huge Potential, but getting it Right Requires Discipline, Organization and Maturity
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Kubernetes and microservices: A developers’ movement to make the web faster, stable, and more open
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This Week in Numbers: Data and Troubleshooting Problems Caused by Microservices
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An Influx of Microservices Creates New Requirements for APM, Report Says
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New study shows rapid growth in microservices adoption among enterprises
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Virtual Panel: Microservices Communication and Governance Using Service Mesh
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Cisco’s Skyport Move Illustrates APM Movement
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BiB 021: LightStep Performance Monitoring For Cloud Native Applications
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Cloudy Chat Podcast: OpenTracing, Microservices, Distributed Monitoring, and More with Ben Sigelman
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Ex-Googlers launch LightStep for hybrid app performance management
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LightStep launches to help companies understand why their apps don’t perform well
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LightStep emerges from stealth with a tool for application performance monitoring
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Lightstep Announces ‘Change Intelligence’ to Deliver on the Promises of AIOps in Observability
Lightstep announces 'Change Intelligence' to easily understand changes within complex, distributed systems.
Read moreRead moreLightstep creates new AWS Lambda extension for monitoring serverless, contributes it to the OpenTelemetry community
Lightstep, the leading Observability tool for understanding microservices and serverless architectures, today contributed a brand new AWS Lambda Extension to the OpenTelemetry project.
Read moreRead moreLightstep announces new GitHub Action, bringing observability data directly to GitHub to avoid problematic code deploys
The `lightstep/lightstep-action-predeploy` action provides insight into the health of production services during software delivery alongside on-call and error information. This Javascript-based action can be used when a pull request is approved by GitHub reviewers and uses APIs to provide a summary of deployment risk ahead of a code change going to a production environment.
Read moreRead moreLightstep receives SOC 2 Type II report
Compiled by Coalfire Controls, an independent cybersecurity firm, the report documents how Lightstep’s information security practices, policies, and procedures are suitable to meet the SOC 2 Type II trust principles criteria for security and confidentiality. This independent validation of security controls is crucial for customers in highly regulated industries.
Read moreRead moreLightstep makes it possible to understand complex applications with one line of code
Lightstep announces OpenTelemetry Launchers to help developers understand their complex systems quickly
Read moreRead moreLightstep announces root cause analysis in three clicks
Lightstep announces major updates to its observability solution to help developers optimize root cause analysis and simplify incident response.
Read moreRead moreOpenTelemetry announces first wave of beta releases for Java, Go, JavaScript, Python, and .Net components
The observability framework offers general-purpose APIs and SDKs to help developers generate, collect, and describe telemetry about distributed systems
Read moreRead moreLightstep announces solution to empower developers with the fastest way to identify performance regressions during and after a deployment
Leveraging an analysis of more than 1.4 trillion traces, Service Health for Deployments monitors service deployments and investigates regressions in real time.
Read moreRead moreOpenTelemetry project to map out future of observability at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
OpenTelemetry, an open source project designed to capture critical telemetry data from production services, will present on its progress and next steps at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 in San Diego, California.
Read moreRead moreLightstep recognized as a Best Place to Work
Honored for Having Created an Exceptional Workplace That Their Employees Value Highly
Read moreRead moreLightstep tracing shakes up microservices and serverless APM and Observability
Today at QCon London 2019, LightStep, the leading provider of performance monitoring software for organizations adopting microservices and serverless, unveiled LightStep Tracing. LightStep Tracing is the fastest way for developers and DevOps to adopt best-of-breed distributed tracing, a technique used to dramatically improve the performance and reliability of modern distributed architectures, like microservices and serverless. LightStep Tracing is both easier to integrate and more powerful than any other distributed tracing solution, and it is now generally available as a public beta.
Read moreRead moreLightStep raises $41 Million to accelerate market expansion for microservices and serverless APM
LightStep, the leading provider of application performance management (APM) for organizations adopting microservices and serverless, today announced $41 million in Series C funding, bringing the total raised to $70 million. The round was led by Altimeter Capital with participation from all existing investors: Redpoint, Sequoia, Cowboy Ventures and Harrison Metal. LightStep will use the funding to accelerate product development and meet record market demand.
Read moreRead moreLightstep named a cool vendor in Performance Analysis; Analytics and Containers by Gartner
LightStep, the leading provider of application performance management for organizations adopting microservices, today announced that it has been recognized in the “Cool Vendors in Performance Analysis; Analytics and Containers”[1] report by Gartner, Inc. In addition, last week LightStep was named one of the 20 Rising Stars as part of the Forbes 2018 Cloud 100 list, the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world.
Read moreRead moreForbes names Lightstep a Rising Star as part of its annual Cloud 100 List
LightStep, the leading provider of application performance management for organizations adopting microservices, today announced that it was named one of the 20 Rising Stars as part of the Forbes 2018 Cloud 100 list, the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world. The 20 Rising Stars represent high-growth and category-leading cloud companies who are poised to join the Cloud 100 ranks: https://www.forbes.com/cloud100/.
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