Lightstep Blog

Introducing Lightstep's Grafana Plugin

Matthew Dolan | Feb 12, 2018

At Lightstep, we’re always looking for ways to make it easier for our customers to monitor and analyze their application performance data in ways that fit seamlessly with their preferred workflows. This includes creating integration points to their...

Lightstep Architecture Explained

Parker Edwards | Jan 30, 2018

Lightstep has made an incredible impact at some of the world’s most innovative companies.

Enhancements in Lightstep Monitoring

Joe Blubaugh | Jan 22, 2018

Today, we’re announcing a suite of new features that make Lightstep monitoring both more powerful and easier to understand.

KubeCon 2017: The Application Layer Strikes Back

Ben Sigelman | Dec 13, 2017

What will devs and devops care about? They will care about application-layer primitives, and those primitives are what KubeCon + CloudNativeCon was about this year.

Announcing Lightstep: A New Approach for a New Software Paradigm

Ben Sigelman | Nov 12, 2017

Today, Lightstep emerged from stealth, announced its first product, Lightstep, as well as its Series A and Series B funding.(Image Credit: daneden.me)

Solving Research Problems Before Lunch - Applying the Scientific Method to Software Engineering

Alice Fuller | Nov 9, 2017

Sometimes, the right approach to take when solving a problem can be opaque. The scientific method can help guide this process: it will provide some direction on how to start solving the problem, and lead to the ability to ask intelligent and...

GoLang Dep: The Missing Manual

Joe Blubaugh | Oct 9, 2017

At Lightstep we run a number of applications written in Go that handle data ingestion from customers, query processing, monitoring and a variety of other tasks. We’ve adopted dep to manage dependencies for these apps.

Everything I Wish I Had Known about Enterprise SSO | Part II

Will DelHagen | Sep 20, 2017

Single sign-on (SSO) is critical for Enterprise products. Once SSO is on the product roadmap, creating a detailed spec is the first step to to achieve both of these goals.

Everything I Wish I Had Known About Enterprise SSO

Will DelHagen | Sep 7, 2017

This is both the most important and most time consuming task before designing your application’s SSO. All other considerations are moot if you don’t understand the ways (there can be more than one) your customers are already managing their accounts.