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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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Announcing the Lightstep Terraform Provider: an easier way to get started with observability
Ben Cronin | Feb 15, 2022Lightstep is excited to announce the release of the Lightstep Terraform Provider allowing users to automate the tasks of creating and maintaining configuration of dashboards and alerts in product.
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Why You Need SRE-Driven Incident Response in the Cloud-Native Age
Darius Koohmarey | Feb 10, 2022Efficient incident response is essential to an organization’s bottom line.
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The Think Tank: The Future of Cloud-Native Observability
Austin Parker | Feb 8, 2022What's new and next in cloud-native observability? Our experts discuss and share!
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Stepping It Up! Lightstep Feature Updates - January 2022
Robin Whitmore | Jan 25, 2022A detailed article on the latest Lightstep enhancements, so you're sure not to miss out on how Lightstep is evolving to make your life easier.
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Announcing Unified Query Builder — Simplifying access to all your telemetry
Andrew Gardner | Dec 10, 2021Balancing the needs of the novice and expert, the Unified Query Builder simplifies access to all your telemetry in one place, and is now available in Lightstep’s Notebooks and will be rolled out throughout the Lightstep Platform.
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Stepping it up! Lightstep feature updates - November 2021
Robin Whitmore | Nov 15, 2021A detailed article on the latest Lightstep enhancements, so you're sure not to miss out on how Lightstep is evolving to make your life easier.
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Deployment strategies for OpenTelemetry
Ted Young | Nov 3, 2021In this blog post, we will explore important changes in how we practice observability, through the lens of progressively deploying OpenTelemetry across a large organization.
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Lightstep participates in AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
Fran Thorpe | Sep 23, 2021As co-founders and active contributors to the OpenTelemetry project, Lightstep is excited to participate in the GA release of AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) for tracing for exporters supporting Java, .Net, Python, Go, and JavaScript.
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Looking beyond observability: A preview of Lightstep Incident Response for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps teams
Ben Sigelman | Aug 31, 2021With this addition to our existing observability solution, our goal is to make it easier than ever for Lightstep users to proactively turn insights into actions.
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