How Lightstep Works
Best-in-class distributed tracing
Free for Developers
Lightstep Analyzes 100% of Your Event Data
Dynamic Sampling
Don’t limit your data with predefined performance questions. Lightstep Satellites use intelligent, dynamic sampling to ensure behavior outliers and anomalies are always well represented.
Secure Satellites
Keep your data close. Our SOC2-compliant security protocols include network controls, closed system data ingress, and private satellite keys. Only data that customer engineers choose to send will ever leave the process and be reported to the Lightstep satellites.
Real-time Queries
Each Satellite has its own customizable recall window where developers have direct access to 100% of performance data with our Query Builder.
Instrumentation Made Easy
With auto-instrumentation libraries for OpenTelemetry, and built-in support for other standards like Jaeger, Zipkin, and OpenTracing, Lightstep makes it easy to get started. Without requiring any additional configuration, Lightstep will aggregate, analyze, and visualize your telemetry data.
Lightstep automatically checks your traces against instrumentation best practices to understand how well services are instrumented, and provides continuous feedback on how to make improvements with our Instrumentation Quality score feature.
RCA in 3 clicks
Lightstep cuts the hours investigating unknown regressions down to minutes. We’ve added new capabilities to distributed tracing to make sure anyone on your team can find the root cause in three simple clicks.
Correlations and Trace Analysis
Correlate traces and logs on spans with performance issues in real time. Lightstep automatically surfaces traces and logs correlated with latency and errors with all the context you need, allowing you to drill down to affected service and operations in seconds.
Real-time System Maps
The first step in handling an incident is knowing where to look. The Service and Operation diagrams are generated in real time on tag criteria, offering interactive displays of nodes that highlight service relationships, latency, and errors.
RCA in 3 clicks
Lightstep cuts the hours investigating unknown regressions down to minutes. We’ve added new capabilities to distributed tracing to make sure anyone on your team can find the root cause in three simple clicks.
Correlations and Trace Analysis
Correlate traces and logs on spans with performance issues in real time. Lightstep automatically surfaces traces and logs correlated with latency and errors with all the context you need, allowing you to drill down to affected service and operations in seconds.
Real-time System Maps
The first step in handling an incident is knowing where to look. The Service and Operation diagrams are generated in real time on tag criteria, offering interactive displays of nodes that highlight service relationships, latency, and errors.