You’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. Now, the magical insights will be shown as previews inside Slack!
Find a trace with a strange error? Share it in Slack!
Find an unsuspected distribution of latencies for a particular service? Share it in Slack!
Have you noticed that your service’s latency seems to be steadily increasing over time? Share it in Slack!
Is There Anything Else I Can Do with Slack?
Yes!
You can create context-rich custom alertscustom alerts for your SLIs
You can connect a traceconnect a trace to the Slack channel of the team that owns a service responsible for a performance regression
You can share business-critical gifsbusiness-critical gifs
How to Get Started
This part is easy. Just check out our docsdocs and drop us a linedrop us a line if you have any questions!
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