Ben Sigelman

CEO and Cofounder

Ben Sigelman is a cofounder and the CEO at Lightstep, a co-creator of Dapper (Google’s distributed tracing system), and co-creator of the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects (both part of the CNCF). Ben's work and interests gravitate towards observability, especially where microservices, high transaction volumes, and large engineering organizations are involved.

Ben Sigelman

Announcing Lightstep Incident Response: streamlining the most critical SRE workflow

Looking beyond observability: A preview of Lightstep Incident Response for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps teams

“It’s a shortcut, not an exit.” – Why I’m thrilled that Lightstep is joining ServiceNow

Announcing Change Intelligence, actionable Metrics dashboards and alerts, and a new approach for Observability

Announcing OpenTelemetry Launchers: The easiest way to get started with distributed tracing

How Distributed Tracing Makes Logs More Valuable

Observability in action: What happens when a deploy goes wrong

APM is dying — and that’s okay

How deep systems broke observability — and what we can do about it

“Easy Instrumentation” or “Portable Instrumentation” — Choose Two

A Brief History of “The Span”: Hard to Love, Hard to Kill

The Best Kind of 'People Problems' – What Made the OpenTelemetry Launch Special

A Brief History of OpenTelemetry (So Far)

Now Comes the Fun Part: Mainstream Microservices and Their Implications

Welcoming Denise Persson to our Board of Directors

Traces are Dead: Long Live (Lightstep) Tracing

Looking Back, Looking Forward ... and fundraising when we’re ready to use it

Three Pillars with Zero Answers - Towards a New Scorecard for Observability

Hippies, Ants, and Healthy Microservices

Performance is a Shape, Not a Number

KubeCon 2017: The Application Layer Strikes Back

Announcing Lightstep: A New Approach for a New Software Paradigm