Mar 7, 2023
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By Jason English
Kubernetes was specifically built to support massive scale and rapid elasticity, but deploying it at scale can still present worrying challenges for development and operations teams. We’ve seen a unique ‘potato chip’ pattern in Kubernetes adoption within enterprises, where once the first K8s clusters pop, they can’t stop. The initial success causes teams to quickly deploy two, then 20, then 200 clusters, then what seems like way-too-many headed for production.
Feb 15, 2023
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By Robin Whitmore
With the complexity of today’s enterprise systems—built as stacks of what may be hundreds of different components deployed across various clouds and regions—tracking down performance issues or downtime causes is a beast. Teams struggle to collect metric data from their disparate components in a uniform and consistent way, and they’re looking for a central place to handle analysis and alerting on that data.
Jan 30, 2023
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By Andrew Gardner
In 2022, our team pushed over 4,500 deployments to production. At over 17 deploys per day, Lightstep added incredible value to our solution. Let's look at a few of those deployments and take a sneak peak into our plans for 2023.
Jan 23, 2023
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By Jason English
Before software existed, there was observability. From its earliest inception, observability was about understanding how mathematical systems and scientific models worked based on their observable outputs. Despite observability’s current popularity in today’s hypescape, you can look it up on WikipediaWikipedia and software observability is still but a footnote.
Jan 19, 2023
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By Heather Waters
As the enterprise navigates geopolitical challenges, macroeconomic headwinds, and the post-pandemic comedown, there is intense pressure to drive software transformation, reduce costs, and compete faster in the cloud-transition era of “Lift and Shift.” Since the pandemic profoundly altered how and where we work, the proliferation of distributed teams has exposed gaps in legacy systems and the lack of visibility across the tech estate.
Jan 5, 2023
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By Moh Osman
When sending data to Lightstep using an OpenTelemetry Collector in Kubernetes, you can take advantage of a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler to better manage fluctuating workloads.
Jan 4, 2023
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By Doug Odegaard
In the race to attract and retain customers, businesses must deliver remarkable customer experiences, release reliable products fast, and review costs to achieve consistent growth. That can either be a well-oiled machine or a tangle of disjointed communications and workflows that frustrates customers, employees, and management alike. But, by developing a culture of observability, you can have a framework that harmonizes the experience for everyone.
Dec 20, 2022
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By Andrew Gardner
For technology-driven organizations, providing digital services for customers is mission-critical. As a result, organizations are doubling down on their cloud transformation, but are challenged with complex hybrid environments. Those that have relied on traditional monitoring solutions are now finding gaps in their visibility, resulting in poor MTTR and incident management across their hybrid estate. But, there’s a solution–The Service Graph Connector for Observability - Lightstep.
Nov 16, 2022
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By Adriana Villela
In my last blog post, I talked about how Ana Margarita Medina and I used Terraform to show off Observability-Landscape-as-Code in practice, leveraging the OpenTelemetry Demo App to do so. The Demo App showcases instrumentation of Traces and Metrics of different services written in different languages using OpenTelemetry (OTel).
Nov 7, 2022
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By Adriana Villela
Hello fellow Kubernetes nerds! 🤓 KubeCon North America is now behind us, so it’s time for a conference retrospective! Now, y’all must be thinking, “Awww, not another one! Noooo...” Ah, but ‘tis not just any KubeCon wrap-up, because both Ana and I will be sharing our perspectives, and we’re awesome and y’all love us. Amirite? Course I am. Without further ado...
Nov 22, 2022
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By Lightstep
How does OpenTelemetry relate to open source software libraries? If you are an OSS maintainer, how should you provide observability for your end users? DM me there if you have any questions, or leave a comment below.
Oct 12, 2022
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By Lightstep
What components are part of a telemetry system? Why doesn't OpenTelemetry come with a database? In this episode, we describe all of the pieces that make up OpenTelemetry, and explain how OTel relates to other parts of the observability stack. DM me there if you have any questions, or leave a comment below.
Aug 23, 2022
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By Lightstep
Lightstep is a monitoring, observability, and incident response platform that enables reliability at scale for devops teams around the world - built for enterprise-and-beyond scale thanks to a modern, hyper-efficient platform. Lightstep is driving intuitive cloud-native observability to immediately identify and understand every change in the complex cloud-native apps that power your business.
Jun 14, 2022
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By Lightstep
There are big changes coming to how we practice observability. In this new series, we're going to cover the big ideas behind the creation of the OpenTelemetry project, and dive deep into how and why this new approach is better suited for operating modern production systems. In part two, we set aside the traditional "three pillars" approach to observability, and design a new telemetry data structure from scratch which better suits our needs. Along the way, we'll learn about OTLP, OpenTelemetry's new data protocol.
May 16, 2022
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By Lightstep
Learn how to integrate Grafana into Lightstep Incident Response. The all-in-one web application performance tool provides performance insight from the end-user experience. Your feedback helps us serve you better. Did you find this video helpful? Leave us a comment to tell us why or why not.
May 13, 2022
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By Lightstep
Learn how to integrate Dynatrace into Lightstep Incident Response. Dynatrace monitors virtual machines from various clouds and physical servers and gives total visibility into all dimensions of applications — from end-user to application deep dive, to the network.
May 13, 2022
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By Lightstep
Learn how to integrate New Relic into Lightstep Incident Response. The all-in-one web application performance tool provides performance insight from the end-user experience, through servers, and down to a line of application code. Your feedback helps us serve you better. Did you find this video helpful? Leave us a comment to tell us why or why not.
Apr 21, 2022
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By Lightstep
In this webinar you’ll learn how Zalando, a world class organization, leverages Lightstep’s Observability platform to understand their software performance and avoid downtime. Listen in as two observability experts, Lightstep's co-founder Ben Sigelman and Zalando's Head of Engineering, Heinrich Hartmann, discuss their trade. In this 60-minute on-demand webinar, you'll learn.
Apr 7, 2022
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By Lightstep
Learn how to integrate Prometheus with your Lightstep Incident Response application. For more information on Incident Response, see: Your feedback helps us serve you better.
Apr 5, 2022
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By Lightstep
There are big changes coming to how we practice observability. In this new series, we're going to cover the big ideas behind the creation of the OpenTelemetry project, and dive deep into how and why this new approach is better suited for operating modern production systems. In part one, we set the stage by reviewing what's wrong with the traditional "tree pillars" design, and pointing out the ways that this silo'd approach to telemetry prevents us from building the kind of automated analysis we want to have when we're investigating strange, emergent behavior.
May 2, 2018
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By Lightstep
Report Finds Record Growth in Microservices is Disrupting the Operational Landscape
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