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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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Move fast and know what’s broken: Announcing Service Health for Deployments
Talia Moyal | Jan 27, 2020Service Health for Deployments is the first observability tool to automatically surface what impacted your service’s performance during and after a deployment — and explain why it happened.
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Lightstep Adopts W3C Trace Context
Austin Parker | Dec 11, 2019We’re proud to join the W3C Distributed Tracing Working Group in celebrating the promotion of the W3C Trace Context specification to the next stage in its life.
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Gamified Onboarding at Lightstep
Sachi Shah | Dec 2, 2019Lightstep Sandbox is our first step towards building an in-product onboarding experience. It is a guided, interactive demo environment aimed at simplifying Lightstep for engineers with varying levels of familiarity with tracing.
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Stepping It Up! Lightstep Feature Updates - November 2019
Robin Whitmore | Nov 25, 2019November 2019 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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Introducing Snapshot Analyzer: Interactive Investigations for Deep Systems
Karthik Kumar | Nov 4, 2019When things are on fire, how do you know if your hypothesis is a good one? To help answer that question, we built Snapshot Analyzer. It’s a simple way to investigate cross-service performance at scale. This article will take you through this new feature.
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Robin Whitmore | Oct 27, 2019October 2019 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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Talks We’re Looking Forward To at the Observability Practitioners Summit (and KubeCon!)
Amelia Mango | Oct 1, 2019Lightstep has been eagerly perusing the schedule of OPS. Not only is the overall lineup this year exciting, but there are some topics that we just can’t wait to see covered in a presentation. Here’s a look at some of our top picks for both events.
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Sharing Just Got Better: Preview Lightstep in Slack
Julian Griggs | Sep 25, 2019You’ve asked, and we’ve answered. Sharing insights from Lightstep just got a whole lot better! Gone are the days when you would post a Lightstep url into Slack and your coworkers would have to guess what magical insights await them on the other side.
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Now Playing: Your Zipkin Traces in Lightstep
David Klein | Sep 17, 2019We’ve made it really easy to send Zipkin traces natively to Lightstep. How easy? This article will walk you step-by-step to simply set an endpoint and launch the Zipkin tracer with your project’s access token.
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