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Strengthening our commitment to the OpenTelemetry project
Carter Socha | April 20, 2023Lightstep 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.
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Using Operation diagrams to understand dependencies and performance
Andrew Chee | Apr 7, 2021Having the ability to visualize operation and service flows allows you to quickly identify systemic problems. Read how this type of analysis becomes quick and simple for anyone on your team with Lightstep’s Operation diagrams and root cause analysis.
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Why 15 minutes was never enough
Danica Shei | Apr 6, 2021Lightstep’s unique data ingest architecture now offers default 1-hour retention in Lightstep Explorer — available to all customers on April 6th. Read this blog by Danica Shei to learn more about the feature and our updated architecture.
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Lightstep announces the acquisition of trusted provider of structured logs, Lumbr
Austin Parker | Apr 1, 2021We're proud to announce that Lumbr is joining the Lightstep family. Lumbr, a leader in the logging space, has made their mark in tall structure architecture in the Pacific Northwest by taking advantage of that area’s rich natural resources.
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OpenTelemetry .NET: All you need to know
Ted Young | Mar 23, 2021Today we’re going to dig into getting started with OpenTelemetry in .NET. In fact, we have some exciting news! OpenTelemetry .NET is now v1.0! With the v1.0 release, tracing is now marked as stable. Read this blog to learn more.
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OpenTelemetry: Emerging standard for all DevOps solutions - error analytics
Clay Smith | Mar 18, 2021Lightstep wants to help customers and our DevOps partners adopt OpenTelemetry. In this post we discuss the value of adding instrumentation to error analytics tools as part of your overall monitoring and incident response workflow.
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What are OpenTelemetry distros?
Ted Young | Mar 17, 2021When you get started with OpenTelemetry, you may notice something: there are multiple distros. Most appear to be vendor-specific. What the heck are these shenanigans? In this article, we'll go over what distros are (and aren't) and why we should use them.
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OpenTelemetry: Emerging standard for all DevOps solutions - feature flags
Clay Smith | Mar 15, 2021Lightstep wants to help customers and our DevOps partners adopt OpenTelemetry. In this post, we'll discuss the value of adding instrumentation to feature flags as part of your progressive delivery workflow.
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OpenTelemetry: Emerging standard for all DevOps solutions - cloud services
Clay Smith | Mar 12, 2021As a founding member and core contributor of the standard, Lightstep wants to help customers and our DevOps partners adopt OpenTelemetry. In this post we’ll show how you can extend instrumentation to API requests to AWS cloud services.
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Find the Needle: How Change Intelligence finds the cause of a metric deviation
Robin Whitmore | Mar 11, 2021Lightstep’s Change Intelligence can pinpoint the change in your deep system that caused deviations in your metric charts. Read this blog for steps on how to quickly find the needle in the haystack.
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