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Stepping it up! Lightstep feature updates - August 2021

Read all about the new features and enhancements that Lightstep has delivered in the last few months.

Send alerts to BigPanda

Lightstep now supports sending metricmetric and StreamStream alerts to BigPandaBigPanda. Alerts with a BigPanda destinationdestination result in a new incident in BigPanda. When the alert is resolved, the incident is moved to the Resolved folder in BigPanda.

Send alerts to BigPanda with Lightstep

Distribution metrics allows for percentiles

Lightstep now supports distribution-type metricsdistribution-type metrics. A distribution metric type returns a set of values for a point in time and performs aggregation on those values before charting the points. Lightstep supports percentile aggregation and can display the 50th, 95th, 99th, and 99.9th percentiles.

Distribution metrics allows for percentiles with Lightstep

View Lightstep metrics in Grafana

The Lightstep Metrics PluginLightstep Metrics Plugin allows you to view metricsview metrics from Lightstep directly in Grafana. With minimal effort, you can use the plugin to continue viewing your existing visualizations in Grafana, using Lightstep as the data source. Then when you notice a deviation, you can click on a chart in Grafana and navigate into Lightstep to use Change IntelligenceChange Intelligence and uncover the root cause.

View Lightstep metrics in Grafana with the Lightstep Metrics Plugin

Clone metric dashboards and charts

You can now clone metric dashboards and charts, making it easy to create versions of existing dashboards and charts. More herehere!

Clone metric dashboards and charts
clone metric dashboards and charts
August 31, 2021
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