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Create Lightstep Users

Lightstep offers role-based access control (RBAC) to features and functionality. You can add users manually or automatically via domain whitelisting, allowing any user at the domain access without an explicit invitation.

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Create Projects for Your Environments

You can have several projects in Lightstep. For example, you might have one project for your development environment and one for production. Or you may have projects for different areas of your application while they're in development.

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Create and Manage API Keys

You need to supply a Lightstep API Key as the Authorization header for all API requests, using the bearer identifier. You also may need API keys when you integrate Lightstep with other applications.

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Create and Manage Access Tokens

Lightstep use access tokens to identify the project the tracer is reporting for. Lightstep Satellites need this token to accept and store span data from the tracer.

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Create and Manage Satellite Keys

Satellites require keys to authenticate and communicate with Lightstep. You need to create a Satellite key when you install and configure Satellites.

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Data Security in Lightstep

Security teams commonly have questions about running Lightstep as part of their production environment. This document summarizes how you can categorize and evaluate Lightstep from a security perspective.

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Manage Email Notifications

Lightstep automatically determines how well your services are instrumented and performing, and sends email notifications that let you know how you're doing.

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Measure Your Instrumentation Quality

The span data that you view and use in Lightstep for observability into your system depends on the quality of your tracing instrumentation. The better and more comprehensive your instrumentation is, the better Lightstep can collect and analyze your data to provide highly actionable information. Lightstep analyzes the instrumentation on your services and determines how you can improve it to make Lightstep work even better for you.

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Admin

Product Docs

Create Lightstep Users

Create Projects for Your Environments

Create and Manage API Keys

Create and Manage Access Tokens

Create and Manage Satellite Keys

Data Security in Lightstep

Manage Email Notifications

Measure Your Instrumentation Quality

Post Previews to Slack

Set Your Data Retention Policy

Use Okta to Manage User Provisioning