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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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Strengthening our commitment to the OpenTelemetry project
Carter Socha | Apr 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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Transform ServiceNow workflows with Service Graph Connector for Observability - Lightstep
Andrew Gardner | Dec 20, 2022The Service Graph Connector for Observability - Lightstep is the bridge between IT Operations and DevOps teams. When combined with ITOM Visibility, it provides organizations with a complete, end-to-end view of their entire cloud estate.
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Evolving our incident response strategy
Lightstep | Nov 2, 2022Lightstep’s Incident Response offering will be sunset effective January 31, 2023. Current customers may continue to use the service until then. Lightstep Observability will not be affected.
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Rakesh Patel | Oct 26, 2022Lightstep’s latest announcement reduces mean time to resolution and drives proactive performance improvements by enabling analysis - in-context - during your troubleshooting journey.
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Announcing Lightstep Unified Query Language
Ben Sigelman | Oct 24, 2022Lightstep announces the general availability of our Unified Query Language (UQL), which will help companies extend visibility across Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies.
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Announcing Unified Alerts
Sravanthi Dinavahi | Sep 28, 2022Announcing the general availability of Lightstep’s Unified Alerting capabilities simplifying and streamlining one of the most important parts of your observability journey
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Introducing the On-Call Me Maybe Podcast!
Adriana Villela | Sep 12, 2022Word has it there's a new podcast on these here streets...
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Identify outliers faster with Heatmaps
Jake Knostman | Jul 6, 2022With Lightstep’s newest visualization type, heatmaps, you can significantly increase the speed at which you can identify “interesting moments” and identify outliers and edge cases to speed up investigation into problems impacting more customers.
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Figure out what happened, and why - with postmortems
Darius Koohmarey | Jun 29, 2022Automatically generate a postmortem for how your team responded to an incident to ensure all of your stakeholders are aware of what happened, why it happened, and how it was resolved, and plans for preventing it from happening again with Lightstep.
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