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Limited data ingest and retention
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Teams
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World-class distributed tracing
Infra, app, and custom metrics
Complete system visibility
Rapid incident resolution
Starting at $100/month
Enterprise
Observability at any scale
Unlimited data and cardinality
Customized onboarding and training
Access to OpenTelemetry experts
Dedicated 24/7 support team
Volume discounts
How does Lightstep pricing work?
Lightstep pricing is built for scale. While other vendors charge for hosts, containers, or even users, Lightstep does not. Instead, we price based on your number of active services. Even if you run 1,000s of instances of a service, you will only be charged for one.
Chat with an expertCompare Plans
Community | Teams | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
Monitoring and observability | |||
Dashboards | |||
Alerting with context | |||
Infrastructure, application, runtime, cloud, third-party metrics ingestion | Limited | ||
Unlimited tracing (complete visibility from mobile / web to database) | Limited | ||
SLI tracking | Limited | ||
Investigating | |||
Real-time querying | |||
Grouping/filtering on any tag combinations | |||
Service and operation maps | |||
Inferred service maps | |||
Deviation and baseline comparisons | |||
Change Intelligence insights | Limited | ||
Historical querying | Limited | ||
Data extensibility and storage | |||
Unlimited cardinality | |||
Data retention | 28 days | 90 days | Custom |
API access | Limited | ||
Custom webhooks | Limited | ||
Easy ingest | |||
AWS / Cloudwatch | |||
Prometheus / Grafana | |||
Datadog / statsd | |||
Jaeger / Zipkin | |||
OpenTelemetry (OTLP) support | |||
Enterprise ready | |||
SOC 2 certified | |||
GDPR compliant | |||
Admin and user controls | Limited | ||
Sign in with Google | Limited | ||
RBAC | Not supported | ||
SAML | Not supported | Not supported | |
Support | |||
In-app chat | |||
Designated shared Slack support channel | Not supported | ||
Team training support | Not supported | Limited | Full support |
Access to OpenTelemetry experts | |||
Lightstep Quickstart | |||
Designated technical account manager |
Teams Pricing
Monthly active services | Avg monthly price per service | Annual price |
|---|---|---|
1 | $100.00 | $1,200 |
10 | $99.50 | $11,940 |
20 | $97.00 | $23,280 |
FAQ
Why does Lightstep price by active services?
Pricing by active service allows for predictable pricing that supports monitoring and observability at scale. Teams can adopt CI/CD and other DevOps best practices without increasing spend.
What is an active service?
In the Lightstep platform, an active service is a single component of a software application (often a microservice) that provides specific functionality, such as an authentication or checkout service. You can have an unlimited number of deployed service instances. For billing purposes, only the actual service (by name) is counted.
What is included with each active service?
1,000 GB of span data per month, 10,000 Active Time Series per month, 20 key operations, and 10 streams.
Who can help me if I have questions about pricing?
Really nice people. You can schedule time to chat with them here, or send an email any time.
Does Lightstep have metrics?
Yes! And we are quite proud of them.
Does Lightstep have an agent?
No. Lightstep is agentless. We ingest 100% of your unsampled data. (People seem to like this.) You can get started in minutes with our OpenTelemetry Launchers, instantly migrate from Jaeger, Zipkin, or Prometheus, or transfer your metrics from AWS Cloudwatch or Datadog.
Can you ingest 100% of my traces?
Yes!
What languages does Lightstep support?
Lightstep supports Python, Go, Java, Node, C++, Ruby, .Net, and most common programming languages.
Can you share an excellent meme about observability?
Sure.
Do I have to sign up for an account to try Lightstep?
Nope! You can resolve a performance regression, investigate a metric spike, debug an error, or monitor a deployment with our interactive sandbox.