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Lightstep Observability recommends using OpenTelemetry Collectors to scrape Kubernetes metrics and send them to Lightstep. This describes an option to deploy the Collectors in DaemonSet mode to scale the metric collection.
Lightstep Observability use access tokens to identify the project the tracer is reporting for. Microsatellites need this token to accept and store span data from the tracer.
Ingest existing Prometheus metrics into Lightstep Observability using the OpenTelemetry Collector running in a Kubernetes environemnt.
Lightstep Observability recommends using OpenTelemetry Collectors to scrape Kubernetes metrics and send them to Lightstep.
Install an OpenTelemetry Collector on Kubernetes to begin collecting application and infrastructure metrics
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.
Having effective load balancing of your Lightstep Observability Microsatellites and your tracers is important to ensure an efficient use of computing resources.
Lightstep Observability provides an pre-built modules to manage AWS alerts.
Lightstep Observability automatically determines how well your services are instrumented and performing, and sends email notifications that let you know how you're doing.
The span data that you view and use in Lightstep Observability for observability into your system depends on the quality of your tracing instrumentation. Lightstep Observability analyzes the instrumentation on your services and determines how you can improve it to make Lightstep Observability work even better for you.
Lightstep Observability provides an pre-built modules to manage AWS dashboards.
Lightstep Observability provides an pre-built modules to manage GCP dashboards.
Lightstep Observability provides pre-built modules to manage Kubernetes monitoring dashboards.
Lightstep Observability performance is based on the ingress and egress of data from the tracers to the Microsatellites and the amount of memory the Microsatellites have to store that data. You can monitor the performance of Lightstep Observability and tune the tracers and Microsatellites to avoid dropped spans.
The Reporting Status page provides an active view of the Lightstep Tracer clients and Microsatellites over a trailing 60-second window.
Lightstep Observability provides pre-built modules to manage OpenTelemetry Collector monitoring dashboards.
Learn how Lightstep Observability handles mobile devices
Ingest Prometheus metrics into Lightstep Observability using the OpenTelemetry Collector running in a Kubernetes environemnt.
Lightstep Observability recommends using OpenTelemetry Collectors to scrape Kubernetes metrics and send them to Lightstep.
Lightstep Observability recommends using OpenTelemetry Collectors to scrape Kubernetes metrics and send them to Lightstep.
This topic provides instructions for scaling the OpenTelemetry Collector deployment for tracing in Kubernetes.
Lightstep Observability recommends using OpenTelemetry Collectors to scrape Kubernetes metrics and send them to Lightstep. This describes an option to deploy the Collectors in StatefulSet mode to shard and scale the metric collection.
Distributed tracing provides a view of the life of a request as it travels across multiple hosts and services communicating over various protocols. With distributed tracing implemented, you have a window into performance at every step in the request.
Learn about OpenTelemetry and how to instrument your app for distributed tracing and observability.
Lightstep Observability provides an open-source Terraform provider for automating the management of dashboards.
Learn about the OpenTelemetry Collector, and how to use it to send your telemetry data to Lightstep.
If you've already instrumented with OpenTelemetry using Collectors, then getting data into Lightstep Observability requires only an edit to the configuration file.
Learn how to configure your OpenTelemetry Collector to send telemetry data via a web security appliance or proxy.
A key part of an organization's Observability strategy is creating and maintaining the ability to think about and compare applications “horizontally”. When telemetry for Observability is unique to each application or framework it causes new organizational issues.
Generic configuration information for OTLP ingest to Lightstep Observability.
Configure the Datadog Agent to send traces to Lightstep Observability.
Lightstep Observability works with many service meshes, and Lightstep Observability + Istio is an easy way to get quick visibility into service performance and availability from the perspective of the service mesh.
Use Lightstep best practices to configure your Collector
Other information about configuring OpenTelemetry with Lightstep Observability.
Get started with OpenTelemetry and Lightstep Observability using the OpenTelemetry Demo app to see data in Lightstep quickly.
Learn how distributed tracing sampling impacts the ability to analyze observability data, using key=value restrictions for some keys and grouping the output based on other keys.
Learn about the OpenTelemetry Collector, and how to use it to send your telemetry data to Lightstep.
Learn about the OpenTelemetry Collector, and how to use it to send your telemetry data to Lightstep.
Learn how to instrument your app for distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry and Lightstep Observability.
Learn how to configure your instrumentation or OpenTelemetry Collector to send telemetry data to Lightstep's OTLP/HTTP endpoints.
Learn how to instrument your .NET application using OpenTelemetry and then send data to Lightstep Observability.
Learn how to instrument your Go application using OpenTelemetry and then send data to Lightstep Observability.
Learn how to instrument your Java application using OpenTelemetry and then send data to Lightstep Observability.
Learn how to instrument your Node.JS application using OpenTelemetry and then send data to Lightstep Observability.
Learn how to instrument your Python application using OpenTelemetry and then send data to Lightstep Observability.
Observability gives you the necessary information about the health and efficiency of your system. However, systems are large and complex, so the question is what do you decide to measure and where do you start?
If you're currently using Jaeger for tracing, you can configure the Jaeger agent to send that data directly to Lightstep Observability Microsatellites with little change. This is a great way to reuse your existing instrumentation architecture either directly in production or to quickly try out Lightstep Observability for the first time.
If you're currently using Zipkin for tracing, you can configure it to send that data directly to Lightstep Observability Microsatellites with little change. This is a great way to reuse your existing instrumentation architecture either directly in production or to quickly try out Lightstep Observability for the first time.
A span can have zero or more key/value *attributes*. Attributes allow you to create metadata about the span.
Learn about OpenTelemetry and how it can help you in your Observability journey.