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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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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 20
Eric O'Rear | Mar 31, 2020Vol 20 of OpenTelemetry project news. It’s official, OpenTelementry is in beta! The Collector, as well as SDKs for Python, Java, Go, Javascript, and Erlang mark the first wave of beta releases.
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Lightstep Supports OpenTelemetry Beta Releases
Eric O'Rear | Mar 31, 2020Lightstep and OpenTelemetry go way back, so it goes without saying that we are very excited about the OTel project entering the beta phase of its lifecycle.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 19
Eric O'Rear | Mar 25, 2020Vol 19 of OpenTelemetry project news. Expanding the scope of the project to include metrics and logs, critical data for observability tools and OpenTelemetry users.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 18
Eric O'Rear | Mar 17, 2020Vol 18 of OpenTelemetry project news. Java, JavaScript, and Python are well into the v0.4 spec and mark the first wave of beta readiness.
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OpenTelemetry and Lightstep: Better Together
Eric O'Rear | Mar 10, 2020Be it in our platform tools, open source engineering, or customer success efforts, we at Lightstep understand the gulf between data and observability better than anyone.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 17
Eric O'Rear | Mar 9, 2020Vol 17 of OpenTelemetry project news. The first wave of beta releases reach their final stages of testing and approval.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 16
Eric O'Rear | Mar 3, 2020Vol 16 of OpenTelemetry project news. Lightstep and Honeycomb teamed up for an OpenTelemetry workshop at QCon London!
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The Life of an OTEP: The Story of Context Propagation in OpenTelemetry
Matt Wear | Feb 24, 2020In this blog, we'll discuss how the future of OpenTelemetry is shaped through the OTEP process and made possible by the hard work and investments made by Lightstep, and the other organizations and individuals helping to build it.
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OTel Me More: OpenTelemetry Project News – Vol 15
Eric O'Rear | Feb 22, 2020Vol 15 of OpenTelemetry project news. OpenTelemetry Python v0.4 is now available!
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