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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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Monitoring Apache with OpenTelemetry and Lightstep
Andrew Gardner | May 2, 2023Continue your observability journey by ingesting metrics from Apache and sending them to Lightstep.
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Monitoring MySQL with OpenTelemetry and Lightstep
Andrew Gardner | Apr 11, 2023Learn how to ingest metrics from MySQL and send them to Lightstep.
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Monitoring NGINX with OpenTelemetry and Lightstep
Robin Whitmore | Apr 6, 2023Learn how to start ingesting metrics from NGINX and send them to Lightstep for more intelligent analysis and monitoring.
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Monitoring PostgreSQL with OpenTelemetry and Lightstep
Robin Whitmore | Feb 15, 2023Get an in-depth walkthrough of how to set up monitoring of your PostgreSQL instance with OpenTelemetry and Lightstep.
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Three Terraform Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them
Adriana Villela | Nov 16, 2022Learn how to fix three Terraform gotchas around module and provider configurations.
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Defining Services for Incident Response
Darius Koohmarey | Oct 17, 2022In Lightstep Incident Response, we believe in defining the service on every alert or incident. There are numerous benefits associated with this approach.
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Events, Alerts, and Incidents - What's the Difference?
Darius Koohmarey | Oct 5, 2022Understand the difference between events, alerts, and incidents. Lightstep Incident Response is the all-in-one platform that enables developers, DevOps, and site reliability engineers to respond quickly and effectively to incidents.
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On-Call Schedules: Striking the Perfect Balance
Alexander Yu | Sep 1, 2022Implementing an on-call schedule that strikes the proper balance between availability and employee happiness can be difficult. In this guide, you’ll go in-depth about on-call schedules and show how to create one that ensures the issues are resolved fast!
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Error Budget and Uptime
James Walker | Aug 26, 2022Learn more about error budget and why you need to take downtime into account when planning your service’s growth.
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