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Gain agility through observability
Heather Waters | January 19, 2023As we navigate geopolitical challenges, macroeconomic headwinds, and the post-pandemic comedown, there is pressure to drive transformation, reduce costs, and be more efficient. See how observability can help you rise to the challenge and be more agile.
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Sharing Just Got Better: Preview Lightstep in Slack
Julian Griggs | Sep 25, 2019You’ve asked, and we’ve answered. Sharing insights from Lightstep just got a whole lot better! Gone are the days when you would post a Lightstep url into Slack and your coworkers would have to guess what magical insights await them on the other side.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News - Vol 3
Isobel Redelmeier | Sep 22, 2019Vol 3 of OpenTelemetry project news. Including recorded talks from Strange Loop as well as some good-first-issue recommendations from the opentelemetry-go SDK.
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Now Playing: Your Zipkin Traces in Lightstep
David Klein | Sep 17, 2019We’ve made it really easy to send Zipkin traces natively to Lightstep. How easy? This article will walk you step-by-step to simply set an endpoint and launch the Zipkin tracer with your project’s access token.
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Isobel Redelmeier | Sep 15, 2019Vol 2 of OpenTelemetry project news. This week’s news includes a major announcement from Datadog as well as continued progress within the open source project.
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“Easy Instrumentation” or “Portable Instrumentation” — Choose Two
Ben Sigelman | Sep 12, 2019Lightstep’s Satellite Architecture now natively supports the data format of these contributed auto-instrumentation libraries. This means that you can start using them now, independent of OpenTelemetry’s development timeline.
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Instrumentation Quality Scores: Guiding you to better telemetry data
Valjean Clark | Sep 11, 2019How do you know if your service has been instrumented as well as it could be? Lightstep can now answer these questions through our new feature: Instrumentation Quality Scores.
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Isobel Redelmeier | Sep 9, 2019Vol 1 of OpenTelemetry project news. With Tracing now in Alpha, the Metrics and Context APIs are targeted for a September 15th Alpha release.
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A Brief History of “The Span”: Hard to Love, Hard to Kill
Ben Sigelman | Sep 4, 2019This article discussed the history of a span and how distributed tracing must form the backbone of any modern observability strategy, and, gradually, our industry is coming to terms with that fact.
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Adopting Kubernetes? Here’s What You Should Definitely Not Do
Spoons | Sep 3, 2019Kubernetes is changing the infrastructure landscape is by enabling platform teams to scale much more effectively. This article dives into what you definitely should not do when adopting Kubernetes.
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