Monitoring

About Classic Lightstep features

Classic Lightstep features will soon be replaced by new and improved unified workflows.

About alerts

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

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.

Create alerts

Learn how to create alerts on metric and span data.

Create dashboards from tri-charts

Group multiple Streams to create a dashboard.

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

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.

How Lightstep Observability displays metrics

Learn how Lightstep Observability displays 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 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 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

Integrations

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.

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 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 deployments

Lightstep Observability offers a way to see how your deployments (even partial deployments) affect your service performance.

Monitor performance

Use Lightstep to monitor performance of you services.

Monitor service health and performance changes

See the health of the key operations on your services, including latency, error rate, operation rate, and infrastructure metrics.

Monitor span data with Streams

Create Streams to view historical span and trace data and monitor your services.

Monitor span data with Streams

Create Streams to view historical span and trace data and monitor your services.

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?

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.

Sample alerts

View and learn from alert examples.

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.

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).

Understand data retention in Lightstep

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

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 dependency maps

You can add dependency maps to your dashboards and notebooks that allow you to view services and operations in context of each other, both up and downstream.

Use labels to tag dashboards and alerts

You can use labels to tag your dashboards and alerts, making it easier to track and find the ones you need.

Use scatter plots

Add scatter plots to dashboards and notebooks, visualizing spans and the traces they come from.

Use the Unified Query Builder

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

View and manage metric details

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

Visualize your data

You use charts in your dashboards, notebooks, and alerts to visualize your data.

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 Key Management Service metrics

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

Datadog metrics

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

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.

Java/JMX metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry JMX 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.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Ingest traces from the Datadog Agent

Configure the Datadog Agent to send traces to Lightstep Observability.

See what you can do with Lightstep Observability!