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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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“It’s a shortcut, not an exit.” – Why I’m thrilled that Lightstep is joining ServiceNow
Ben Sigelman | May 10, 2021I'm excited to announce Lightstep is joining ServiceNow. For me – and for the team at Lightstep – this isn’t an exit, it’s a shortcut, an entrance, and a massive accelerant as we continue to pursue Lightstep’s mission. We couldn't be more excited!
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Lightstep partners with AWS on the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
Ted Young | Dec 15, 2020We are partnering with Amazon to bring OpenTelemetry to AWS in a supported fashion. AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry provides an AWS-supported, production-ready release of the OpenTelemetry Collector for Lightstep customers who use OpenTelemetry on AWS.
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Introducing the Lightstep Observability Toolkit for GitHub developers
Fran Thorpe | Dec 8, 2020Lightstep has made it easy for organizations to identify changes in production, answer the question "what changed", & use that information to quickly resolve issues. Lightstep is now bringing that same level of detail in front of developers inside GitHub.
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Instrument your Lambda Functions with OpenTelemetry (Preview)
Alex Boten, Lulu Bai | Dec 3, 2020Lightstep, a major contributor to OpenTelemetry, will be donating an AWS Lambda Extension to the OpenTelemetry community for anyone looking to use open-source vendor agnostic tools to instrument & better understand systems built with AWS Lambda Functions.
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Stepping it up! Lightstep feature updates - October and November 2020
Robin Whitmore | Dec 2, 2020October and November 2020 post updated on the latest enhancements, so you're sure not to miss out on how Lightstep is evolving to make your life easier.
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Drive instrumentation consistency with Lightstep’s Instrumentation Quality Score
Lulu Bai | Dec 2, 2020Lightstep has improved on this beloved feature with configuration options to drive consistency within your organization, charting an ideal course for individual teams to follow. In this blog, we'll discuss the updates and the importance of this feature.
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Gain better insights with the new Lightstep API program
Brandon Cato | Nov 18, 2020We’re pleased to announce that we’ve made major improvements to our Lightstep API program to provide our customers with more powerful access to Lightstep’s differentiated data. This blog explains the new functionality and how it will benefit developers.
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Resolve errors faster with Lightstep and Rollbar
Fran Thorpe | Oct 29, 2020At Lightstep we’re always on the look for ways to make Observability best practices easier for any developer to adopt. Recently we’ve combined efforts with Rollbar, a platform for error monitoring and analysis.
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Lightstep adds complete system context to PagerDuty alerts
Fran Thorpe | Oct 23, 2020Lightstep has partnered with PagerDuty, to ensure software teams can move from context within an incident to quickly understand and determine root cause. Together we’re augmenting incident response solutions for pre-production scenarios.
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