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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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OpenTelemetry .NET: All you need to know
Ted Young | Mar 23, 2021Today we’re going to dig into getting started with OpenTelemetry in .NET. In fact, we have some exciting news! OpenTelemetry .NET is now v1.0! With the v1.0 release, tracing is now marked as stable. Read this blog to learn more.
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OpenTelemetry: Emerging standard for all DevOps solutions - error analytics
Clay Smith | Mar 18, 2021Lightstep wants to help customers and our DevOps partners adopt OpenTelemetry. In this post we discuss the value of adding instrumentation to error analytics tools as part of your overall monitoring and incident response workflow.
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What are OpenTelemetry distros?
Ted Young | Mar 17, 2021When you get started with OpenTelemetry, you may notice something: there are multiple distros. Most appear to be vendor-specific. What the heck are these shenanigans? In this article, we'll go over what distros are (and aren't) and why we should use them.
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OpenTelemetry: Emerging standard for all DevOps solutions - feature flags
Clay Smith | Mar 15, 2021Lightstep wants to help customers and our DevOps partners adopt OpenTelemetry. In this post, we'll discuss the value of adding instrumentation to feature flags as part of your progressive delivery workflow.
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OpenTelemetry: Emerging standard for all DevOps solutions - cloud services
Clay Smith | Mar 12, 2021As a founding member and core contributor of the standard, Lightstep wants to help customers and our DevOps partners adopt OpenTelemetry. In this post we’ll show how you can extend instrumentation to API requests to AWS cloud services.
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OpenTelemetry and tracing and logs, oh my!
Ted Young | Mar 9, 2021OpenTelemetry, Tracing, Logs, Oh my! Read Ted Young’s latest blog for a mix of the latest updates about the state of logging with good advice (and possibly gentle ranting).
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OpenTelemetry Lambda for Python!
Ted Young | Feb 26, 2021In December, Alex Boten did some great work experimenting with running OpenTelemetry on Lambda. A number of improvements have happened since including the Lightstep Lambda extension being donated to OpenTelemetry. Let's dig into the details.
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OpenTelemetry automatic instrumentation: a deep dive
Austin Parker | Feb 25, 2021OpenTelemetry can be an overwhelming project to take in. Understanding the interactions between the API, SDK, and various tools and protocols is a lot. In this post, we’ll cover the interesting and important part of the project: automatic instrumentation.
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The Big Pieces: OpenTelemetry specification
Ted Young | Feb 22, 2021During the OpenTracing and OpenCensus merger, the initial version of the specification was created. In this installment of The Big Pieces, we’re going to cover the way that OpenTelemetry designs itself, and how to get involved yourself.
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