Alerts

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About alerts

Use Lightstep alerts to monitor and get notifications about your system.

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Create alerts

Learn how to create alerts on metric and span data.

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Create alerts for tri-charts

You can create thresholds on Streams that when crossed, trigger alerts and send them to configured destinations. You can set alerts for an error percentile, latency, or operations per second.

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Create billing alerts

Create alerts help you stay within your billing limits.

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Create webhook notification destinations

You can use webhooks to send alert notifications to any third-party app that accepts webhooks. Lightstep offers a number of pre-built templates to get you started

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How Lightstep Observability displays metrics

Learn how Lightstep Observability displays metrics.

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Lightstep Observability integrates with leading cloud-native technologies, metrics producers, service meshes for microservices, and enterprise data visualization and collaboration tools. These turnkey integrations make it easy to deploy Lightstep Observability across large-scale production systems so users get the unrivaled performance insights it provides when they need it and as part of their standard, established workflows.

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Manage notification destinations

Lightstep Observability has built-in capability to set PagerDuty and Slack channels as alert destinations. You can also use webhooks to send alerts to other third-party solutions.

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Query your data

Learn how to query your metric and span data in Lightstep Observability using either the Unified Query Builder or using the editor with UQL.

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Sample alerts

View and learn from alert examples.

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Understand data retention in Lightstep

Learn how your metric and trace data is retained in Lightstep and the data retention period for each.

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Use the Unified Query Builder

Learn how to query your metric and span data in Lightstep Observability using the Unified Query Builder.

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View and manage alerts

View Lightstep alerts and manage them in one place.