How Lightstep reduces your monitoring spend

Hosts, containers, and seats are free

If you run one instance or one thousand instances of a service, it’s still just providing a single service to the rest of your application. Lightstep’s Active Service pricing model does not penalize your organization for achieving scale.

While other vendors charge for hosts, containers, or even total RAM allocation, Lightstep does not.

A more efficient time series database

Lightstep built a next-generation time series database to enable Change Intelligence, and offer the best pricing for metrics on the market.

Even better: Lightstep measures the number of Active Time Series (ATS) on an hourly basis. This means that even if your team deploys many times per month and your “host” label changes every time, the number of Active Time Series stays flat — so you can adopt CI/CD and other DevOps best practices without increasing your monitoring bill.

Hybrid architecture reduces span data costs

It’s no secret that distributed tracing data – ”span” data, that is – can be a firehose: a span contains structured data for every inbound and outbound request for every microservice in an application, and that adds up. Lightstep’s Satellite architecture pushes data ingress close to the application itself, making it possible to handle more data than other solutions at a fraction of the cost.