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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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Analyse billions of events in seconds with Notebook’s span time series
Neena Dugar | May 2, 2022We recently released Notebooks, which has one particularly game changing feature: being able to create time series out of your historical span data over the last three days. Notebooks allows you to make any query over the last three days of span data.
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Announcing Notebooks: collaborate and troubleshoot issues with metrics and traces together
Rakesh Patel | Mar 31, 2022We’re excited to announce a new feature in Lightstep Observability called Notebooks which addresses the needs that arise throughout the course of a team’s troubleshooting journey.
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Announcing Unified Dashboards - Simplifying and Consolidating monitoring across all your telemetry
Jake Knostman | Mar 23, 2022Siloed views of telemetry data is a thing of the past. With Lightstep's Unified Dashboards, now you can proactively monitor your applications and visualize the relationship between your telemetry types, from a single tab.
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Ben Sigelman | Mar 14, 2022We're excited to announce our first new product since joining ServiceNow: Lightstep Incident Response. Streamline on-call, alert grouping, incident management, and automation so every developer and SRE can act quickly, without fear and uncertainty.
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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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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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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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