Lightstep Blog

Using Operation diagrams to understand dependencies and performance

Andrew Chee | Apr 7, 2021

Having 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.

Why 15 minutes was never enough

Danica Shei | Apr 6, 2021

Lightstep’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.

Lightstep announces the acquisition of trusted provider of structured logs, Lumbr

Austin Parker | Apr 1, 2021

We'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.

OpenTelemetry .NET: All you need to know

Ted Young | Mar 23, 2021

Today 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.

OpenTelemetry: Emerging standard for all DevOps solutions - error analytics

Clay Smith | Mar 18, 2021

Lightstep 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.

What are OpenTelemetry distros?

Ted Young | Mar 17, 2021

When 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.

OpenTelemetry: Emerging standard for all DevOps solutions - feature flags

Clay Smith | Mar 15, 2021

Lightstep 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.

OpenTelemetry: Emerging standard for all DevOps solutions - cloud services

Clay Smith | Mar 12, 2021

As 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.

Find the Needle: How Change Intelligence finds the cause of a metric deviation

Robin Whitmore | Mar 11, 2021

Lightstep’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.