Lightstep from ServiceNow Logo

Products

Solutions

Documentation

Resources

Lightstep from ServiceNow Logo

Browse blog articles

All topics

Lightstep Blog

Get the latest news and announcements. From product updates to industry topics, hear from the Lightstep experts.

Strengthening our commitment to the OpenTelemetry project 

Carter Socha | April 20, 2023

Lightstep is the first company to natively provide customers with complete control of their telemetry pipeline which saves time and money, and provides the freedom to innovate at scale. By embracing OpenTelemetry support without vendor lock-in, Lightstep helps you make complex app development easier and faster.

Read moreRead more

Catch up on latest featured blogs

Monitoring Apache with OpenTelemetry and Lightstep

Andrew Gardner | May 2, 2023

Continue your observability journey by ingesting metrics from Apache and sending them to Lightstep.

Learn moreLearn more

Monitoring MySQL with OpenTelemetry and Lightstep

Andrew Gardner | April 11, 2023Learn moreLearn more

From Day 0 to Day 2: Reducing the anxiety of scaling up cloud-native deployments

Jason English | March 7, 2023Learn moreLearn more

The origin of cloud native observability

Jason English | January 23, 2023Learn moreLearn more

Featured Topics

How to Operate Cloud Native Applications at Scale

Jason Bloomberg | May 15, 2023

Intellyx explores the challenges of operating cloud-native applications at scale – in many cases, massive, dynamic scale across geographies and hybrid environments.

Learn moreLearn more

2022 in review

Andrew Gardner | January 30, 2023

Andrew Gardner looks back at Lightstep's product evolution and what's in store for 2023.

Learn moreLearn more

KubeCon North America 2022: A Retrospective

Adriana Villela, Ana Margarita Medina | November 7, 2022

Adriana, as a first-time KubeCon attendee, and Ana, as a four-time KubeCon attendee share their thoughts on KubeCon North America 2022

Learn moreLearn more

OpenTelemetry Collector in Kubernetes: Get started with autoscaling

Moh Osman | January 6, 2023

Learn how to leverage a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler alongside the OpenTelemetry Collector in Kubernetes. This will enable a cluster to handle varying telemetry workloads as the collector pool aligns to demand.

Learn moreLearn more

Observability-Landscape-as-Code in Practice

Adriana Villela, Ana Margarita Medina | October 25, 2022

Learn how to put Observability-Landscape-as-Code in this hands-on tutorial. In it, you'll use Terraform to create a Kubernetes cluster, configure and deploy the OTel Demo App to send Traces and Metrics to Lightstep, and create dashboards in Lightstep.

Learn moreLearn more

OpenTelemetry for Python: The Hard Way

Adriana Villela | September 20, 2022

Learn how to instrument your Python application with OpenTelemetry through manual configuration and manual context propagation, using Lightstep as the Observability back-end.

Learn moreLearn more

Discover and explore all blog posts

How to Operate Cloud Native Applications at Scale

Jason Bloomberg | May 15, 2023

Intellyx explores the challenges of operating cloud-native applications at scale – in many cases, massive, dynamic scale across geographies and hybrid environments.

Learn moreLearn more

Monitoring Apache with OpenTelemetry and Lightstep

Andrew Gardner | May 2, 2023

Continue your observability journey by ingesting metrics from Apache and sending them to Lightstep.

Learn moreLearn more

Strengthening our commitment to the OpenTelemetry project 

Carter Socha | Apr 20, 2023

Lightstep is the first company to natively provide customers with complete control of their telemetry pipeline which saves time and money, and provides the freedom to innovate at scale. By embracing OpenTelemetry support without vendor lock-in, Lightstep helps you make complex app development easier and faster.

Learn moreLearn more

Monitoring MySQL with OpenTelemetry and Lightstep

Andrew Gardner | Apr 11, 2023

Learn how to ingest metrics from MySQL and send them to Lightstep.

Learn moreLearn more

Monitoring NGINX with OpenTelemetry and Lightstep

Robin Whitmore | Apr 6, 2023

Learn how to start ingesting metrics from NGINX and send them to Lightstep for more intelligent analysis and monitoring.

Learn moreLearn more

From Day 0 to Day 2: Reducing the anxiety of scaling up cloud-native deployments

Jason English | Mar 7, 2023

The global cloud-native development community is facing a reckoning. There are too many tools, too much telemetry data, and not enough skilled people to make sense of it all.  See how you can.

Learn moreLearn more

Monitoring PostgreSQL with OpenTelemetry and Lightstep

Robin Whitmore | Feb 15, 2023

Get an in-depth walkthrough of how to set up monitoring of your PostgreSQL instance with OpenTelemetry and Lightstep.

Learn moreLearn more

2022 in review

Andrew Gardner | Jan 30, 2023

Andrew Gardner looks back at Lightstep's product evolution and what's in store for 2023.

Learn moreLearn more

The origin of cloud native observability

Jason English | Jan 23, 2023

Almost every company that depends on digital capabilities is betting on cloud native development and observability. Jason English, Principal Analyst at Intellyx, looks at the origins of both and their growing role in operational efficiency.

Learn moreLearn more
THE CLOUD-NATIVE RELIABILITY PLATFORM

Lightstep sounds like a lovely idea

Monitoring and observability for the world’s most reliable systems