Metrics

Alignment in UQL

When using UQL, you may need to align your metric points to create a meaningful chart. This topic explains the concept of alignment and how to use it in UQL queries.

Getting started with distributions in UQL

Learn how to use Lightstep's Unified Query Language (UQL) works to query distribution metrics.

Getting started with spans queries in UQL

Learn how to use Lightstep's Unified Query Language (UQL) works to query distribution metrics.

Ingest OpenTelemetry metrics

Ingest OpenTelemetry Metrics encoded using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP)

Ingest Prometheus metrics using an OpenTelemetry Collector on Kubernetes

Ingest existing Prometheus metrics into Lightstep Observability using the OpenTelemetry Collector running in a Kubernetes environemnt.

Ingest Prometheus metrics with an OpenTelemetry Collector on Kubernetes

Lightstep Observability recommends using OpenTelemetry Collectors to scrape Kubernetes metrics and send them to Lightstep.

Ingest metrics from Amazon

Easily send AWS CloudWatch metrics from multiple projects to Lightstep using the Lightstep UI.

Ingest metrics from Azure AKS

See Azure AKS metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

Ingest metrics from Datadog

Configure current metrics to report to Lightstep Observability. You can also import existing metric dashboards into Lightstep Observability.

Ingest metrics from Google Cloud Monitoring

Configure Google Cloud metrics to report to Lightstep Observability.

Ingest metrics from Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

See Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

Ingest metrics using the OpenTelemetry Collector

Send metric data from the OpenTelemetry Collector directly to Lightstep Observability using OpenTelemetry Protocol.

Ingest metrics using the OpenTelemetry SDK

Send metric data from an OpenTelemetry SDK directly to Lightstep Observability using OpenTelemetry Protocol.

Install the OpenTelemetry Collector on Kubernetes

Install an OpenTelemetry Collector on Kubernetes to begin collecting application and infrastructure metrics

Investigate a deviation

Use Lightstep Observability's Change Intelligence when you notice a deviation in your charts to quickly find the root cause.

Manage AWS Alerts

Lightstep Observability provides an pre-built modules to manage AWS alerts.

Mapping Prometheus concepts to Lightstep Observability

How do Prometheus metrics translate to Lightstep Observability metrics?

Metric naming rules

Follow these rules when naming metrics or attributes.

Monitor AWS Managed Services

Lightstep Observability provides an pre-built modules to manage AWS dashboards.

Monitor GCP Managed Services

Lightstep Observability provides an pre-built modules to manage GCP dashboards.

Monitor Kubernetes

Lightstep Observability provides pre-built modules to manage Kubernetes monitoring dashboards.

Monitor Kubernetes applications

Lightstep Observability can ingest Kubernetes infrastructure and application metrics using the OpenTelemetry Collector and Operator. If you're currently using Prometheus from metrics, you can also choose to replace those with the Collector and Operator.

Monitor and investigate

Lightstep Observability has a number of tools that help you in all your observability flows, whether it's continual monitoring, triaging an incident, root cause analysis, or managing your team's observability practices.

Monitor performance

Use Lightstep to monitor performance of you services.

Monitor the OpenTelemetry Collector

Lightstep Observability provides pre-built modules to manage OpenTelemetry Collector monitoring dashboards.

OpenTelemetry Kubernetes metrics Quick Start

Ingest Prometheus metrics into Lightstep Observability using the OpenTelemetry Collector running in a Kubernetes environemnt.

OpenTelemetry metrics protocol guide

How do OpenTelemetry metrics translate into Lightstep Observability metrics? How can I convert my metrics into OpenTelemetry metrics?

Register a service name attribute for metrics

You register an attribute on your metric data that holds the service's name and allows Change Intelligence to correlate metric and trace data.

Scale an OpenTelemetry Collector's tracing pipeline in Kubernetes

This topic provides instructions for scaling the OpenTelemetry Collector deployment for tracing in Kubernetes.

Send metric data to Lightstep Observability

You can send metric data to Lightstep Observability from many different sources.

Send metrics to Lightstep Observability

You can send metric data to Lightstep Observability from many different sources.

Troubleshoot Change Intelligence

Lightstep Observability's Change Intelligence correlates changes found in traces with deviations in your metric data. But there may be times when you need help getting that correlation to work as expected. Here are some issues you may run into and how to solve them.

UQL cheat sheet

When you want to build more sophisticated queries against your metric data, you can use Lightstep's Unified Query Language (UQL) to create your queries.

UQL reference

Full reference guide for Lightstep's Unified Query Language (UQL).

Use UQL to create advanced queries

Learn how Lightstep's Unified Query Language (UQL) works to query metric and span data from the telemetry database.

Use notebooks in your investigation

You can create notebooks for ad-hoc queries, post-mortems, runbooks, collaboration, or anytime you want to keep a record of an investigation.

Use the Lightstep Terraform modules

Lightstep Observability provides an open-source Terraform provider for automating the management of dashboards.

View Lightstep data in Grafana

The Lightstep Observability Data Source lets you view and visualize telemetry data from Lightstep Observability in Grafana.

View and manage metric details

You can edit the metadata associated with metrics reporting to your Lightstep Observability project.

AWS API Gateway metrics

See the AWS API Gateway metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Amazon MQ metrics

See the AWS Amazon MQ metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Amplify metrics

See the AWS Amplify metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS App Runner metrics

See the AWS App Runner metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS AppStream metrics

See the AWS App Stream metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS ApplicationELB metrics

See the AWS ApplicationELB metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Athena metrics

See the AWS Athena metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Aurora metrics

See the AWS Aurora metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Backup metrics

See the AWS Backup metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Certificate Manager metrics

See the AWS Certificate Manager metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Chatbot metrics

See the AWS Chatbot metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Chime metrics

See the AWS Chime metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Client VPN metrics

See the AWS Client VPN metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS CloudHSM metrics

See the AWS Cloud HSM metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS CloudSearch metrics

See the AWS Cloud Search metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS CloudTrail metrics

See the AWS Cloud Trail metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS CloudWatch Logs metrics

See the AWS CloudWatch Logs metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS CloudWatch RUM metrics

See the AWS RUM metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS CloudWatch Synthetics metrics

See the AWS CloudWatchSynthetics metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS CloudWatch metric streams metrics

See the AWS CloudWatch metric streams metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Cloudfront metrics

See the AWS Cloudfront metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS CodeBuild metrics

See the AWS CodeBuild metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS CodeGuru metrics

See the AWS CodeGuru Profiler metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Cognito metrics

See the AWS aws-cognito metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Data Lifecycle Manager metrics

See the AWS Data Lifecycle Manager metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Database Migration Service metrics

See the AWS Database Migration Service metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS DocumentDB metrics

See the AWS DocumentDB metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) metrics

See the AWS DAX metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS DynamoDB metrics

See the AWS DynamoDB metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS EC2 Auto Scaling metrics

See the AWS Auto Scaling metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS EC2 Fleet metrics

See the AWS EC2 Fleet metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS EC2 metrics

See the AWS EC2 metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS ECS metrics

See the AWS aws-ecs metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS EKS metrics

See the AWS EKS metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS ELB metrics

See the AWS ELB metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS ElastiCache metrics

See the AWS ElastiCache metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Elastic Block Store metrics

See the AWS Elastic Block Store metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Elastic File System metrics

See the AWS Elastic File System metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Elastic Inference metrics

See the AWS Elastic Inference metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Elastic MapReduce metrics

See the AWS Elastic Map Reduce metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Elastic Transcoder metrics

See the AWS Elastic Transcoder metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS EventBridge metrics

See the AWS EventBridge metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Fargate metrics

See the AWS Fargate metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Gateway Load Balancer metrics

See the AWS Gateway Load Balancer metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Global Accelerator metrics

See the AWS Global Accelerator metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Glue metrics

See the AWS Glue metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Inspector metrics

See the AWS Inspector metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS IoT Analytics metrics

See the AWS IoT Analytics metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS IoT SiteWise metrics

See the AWS IoT SiteWise metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS IoT Things Graph metrics

See the AWS IoT Things Graph metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS IoT TwinMaker metrics

See the AWS IoT TwinMaker metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Key Management Service metrics

See the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Kinesis Data Firehose metrics

See the AWS Kinesis Data Firehose metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Kinesis Video Streams metrics

See the AWS Kinesis Video Streams metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Kinesis metrics

See the AWS Kinesis metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Lambda metrics

See the AWS Lambda metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS MSK metrics

See the AWS MSK metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS NAT gateway metrics

See the AWS NAT Gateway metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Neptune metrics

See the AWS Neptune metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Network Firewall metrics

See the AWS Network Firewall metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Network Manager metrics

See the AWS Network Manager metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS OpenSearch metrics

See the AWS OpenSearch metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Private CA metrics

See the AWS Private CA metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS PrivateLink Endpoints metrics

See the AWS PrivateLink Endpoints metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS PrivateLink Services metrics

See the AWS PrivateLink Services metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS RDS metrics

See the AWS RDS metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Redshift metrics

See the AWS Redshift metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS RoboMaker

See the AWS RoboMaker metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Route 53 metrics

See the AWS Route53 metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS S3 metrics

See the AWS S3 metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS SES metrics

See the AWS SES metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS SNS metrics

See the AWS SNS metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS SQS metrics

See the AWS SQS metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS SageMaker Model Building Pipelines metrics

See the AWS SageMaker Model Building Pipelines metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Secrets Manager metrics

See the AWS Secrets Manager metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Service Catalog metrics

See the AWS Service Catalog metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Shield Advanced metrics

See the AWS Shield Advanced metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Simple Workflow metrics

See the AWS Simple Workflow metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Step Functions metrics

See the AWS Step Functions metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Textract

See the AWS Textract metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Timestream metrics

See the AWS Timestream metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Transfer Family metrics

See the AWS Transfer Family metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Transit Gateway metrics

See the AWS Transit Gateway ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Translate metrics

See the AWS Translate metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS Trusted Advisor metrics

See the AWS Trusted Advisor metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS VPC IP Address Manager metrics

See the AWS VPC IP Address Manager ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS VPN metrics

See the AWS VPN metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS WAFV2 metrics

See the AWS WAF metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS WorkMail metrics

See the AWS WorkMail metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS WorkSpaces Web metrics

See the AWS WorkSpaces Web metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS WorkSpaces metrics

See the AWS WorkSpaces metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS metrics

See the AWS metrics that Lightstep ingests.

ActiveMQ metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry ActiveMQ receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Apache metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Apache receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Cassandra metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Cassandra receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Ceph metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from Ceph and send them to Lightstep Observability.

Cilium metrics with Hubble

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver and operator to scrape metrics from Cilium and Hubble running in Kubernetes and send them to Lightstep Observability.

ClickHouse metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from ClickHouse and then send them to Lightstep Observability.

Cockroach metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from Cockroach and send them to Lightstep Observability.

Collectd metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from Collectd and then send them to Lightstep Observability.

CoreDNS metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from CoreDNS and send them to Lightstep Observability.

CouchDB metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry CouchDB receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Couchbase metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from Couchbase and then send them to Lightstep Observability.

Datadog metrics

Configure current metrics to report to Lightstep Observability. You can also import existing metric dashboards into Lightstep Observability.

Docker stats metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Docker stats receiver or Prometheus receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Elasticsearch metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Elasticsearch receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Envoy metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Envoy receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

ExternalDNS metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from ExternalDNS and send them to Lightstep Observability.

Gunicorn metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry StatsD receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

HAProxy metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry HAProxy receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

HBase metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry JMX receiver to send HBase metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Hadoop metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry JMX receiver to send Hadoop metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Hashicorp Consul metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from Hashicorp Consul and then send them to Lightstep Observability.

Hashicorp Nomad metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from Hashicorp Nomad and send them to Lightstep Observability.

Hashicorp Vault metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from Hashicorp Vault and send them to Lightstep Observability.

IBM MQ metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from IBM MQ and then send them to Lightstep Observability.

IIS metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from IIS and send them to Lightstep Observability.

Ingest Prometheus metrics using an OpenTelemetry Collector on Kubernetes

Ingest existing Prometheus metrics into Lightstep Observability using the OpenTelemetry Collector running in a Kubernetes environemnt.

Ingest metrics from Airflow

Use the OpenTelemetry StatsD receiver to scrape metrics from Airflow and send them to Lightstep Observability.

Ingest metrics from Fluentd

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from Fluentd and send them to Lightstep Observability.

Ingest metrics from MQTT topics with Telegraf

Use the Telegraf MQTT Consumer input plugin to send metrics to Lightstep Observability from MQTT topics.

Ingest metrics from any HTTP endpoint with Telegraf

Use the Telegraf HTTP input to send metrics to Lightstep Observability from any endpoint.

Ingest metrics using the OpenTelemetry Collector

Send metric data from the OpenTelemetry Collector directly to Lightstep Observability using OpenTelemetry Protocol.

Ingest metrics with Telegraf

Use Telegraf to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Ingest network endpoint status metrics with Net Response and Telegraf

Use the Telegraf Net Response input plugin to send metrics to Lightstep Observability based on the status of a networked service.

Istio metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Collector receiver to ingest metrics from Istio and then send them to Lightstep Observability.

Java/JMX metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry JMX receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Kafka metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Kafka receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Kong Ingress metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from Kong Ingress and send them to Lightstep Observability.

Linux Host metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Host receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Memcached metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Memcached receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Micrometer metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape Prometheus metrics from Micrometer and send them to Lightstep Observability.

MinIO metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from MinIO and send them to Lightstep Observability.

MongoDB metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry MongoDB receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Monit metrics with Telegraf

Use the Telegraf Monit input plugin to send metrics to Lightstep Observability from Monit.

MySQL metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry MySQL receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

NGINX Ingress Controller metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape Prometheus metrics from the NGINX Ingress Controller and then send them to Lightstep Observability.

NGINX metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry NGINX integration to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Node Exporter metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from node-exporter and send them to Lightstep Observability.

PHP-FPM metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from PHP-FPM and send them to Lightstep Observability.

PostgreSQL metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry PostgreSQL receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

PowerDNS Recursor metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from PowerDNS Recursor and send them to Lightstep Observability.

RabbitMQ metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry RabbitMQ receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Redis metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Redis integration to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

SNMP metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry receiver to scrape metrics from SNMP agent and send them to Lightstep Observability.

Solr metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry JMX receiver to send Solr metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Squid metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from Squid and send them to Lightstep Observability.

StatsD metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry StatsD receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

Tomcat metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry JMX receiver to send metrics for Apache Tomcat to Lightstep Observability.

Varnish metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from Varnish and send them to Lightstep Observability.

ZooKeeper metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry ZooKeeper receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.

etcd metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from etcd and then send them to Lightstep Observability.

kube-state-metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from kube-state-metrics and send them to Lightstep Observability.

kubelet metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from kubelet and send them to Lightstep Observability.

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