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Classic Lightstep features will soon be replaced by new and improved unified workflows.
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.
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
Learn how to use Lightstep's Unified Query Language (UQL) works to query distribution metrics.
Learn how to use Lightstep's Unified Query Language (UQL) works to query distribution metrics.
Learn how Lightstep Observability displays metrics.
Ingest OpenTelemetry Metrics encoded using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP)
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.
Easily send AWS CloudWatch metrics from multiple projects to Lightstep using the Lightstep UI.
See Azure AKS metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability
Configure Google Cloud metrics to report to Lightstep Observability.
See Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability
Send metric data from an OpenTelemetry SDK directly to Lightstep Observability using OpenTelemetry Protocol.
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.
How do Prometheus metrics translate to Lightstep Observability metrics?
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.
Lightstep Observability offers a way to see how your deployments (even partial deployments) affect your service performance.
See the health of the key operations on your services, including latency, error rate, operation rate, and infrastructure metrics.
Create Streams to view historical span and trace data and monitor your services.
Create Streams to view historical span and trace data and monitor your services.
Ingest Prometheus metrics into Lightstep Observability using the OpenTelemetry Collector running in a Kubernetes environemnt.
How do OpenTelemetry metrics translate into Lightstep Observability metrics? How can I convert my metrics into OpenTelemetry metrics?
Learn how to query your metric and span data in Lightstep Observability using either the Unified Query Builder or using the editor with UQL.
This topic provides instructions for scaling the OpenTelemetry Collector deployment for tracing in Kubernetes.
You can send metric data to Lightstep Observability from many different sources.
You can send metric data to Lightstep Observability from many different sources.
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.
Learn how your metric and trace data is retained in Lightstep and the data retention period for each.
Learn how Lightstep's Unified Query Language (UQL) works to query metric and span data from the telemetry database.
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.
You can use labels to tag your dashboards and alerts, making it easier to track and find the ones you need.
Add scatter plots to dashboards and notebooks, visualizing spans and the traces they come from.
Learn how to query your metric and span data in Lightstep Observability using the Unified Query Builder.
You can edit the metadata associated with metrics reporting to your Lightstep Observability project.
You use charts in your dashboards, notebooks, and alerts to visualize your data.
See the AWS CloudWatchSynthetics metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability
See the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability
Configure current metrics to report to Lightstep Observability. You can also import existing metric dashboards into Lightstep Observability.
Use the Telegraf Net Response input plugin to send metrics to Lightstep Observability based on the status of a networked service.
Use the OpenTelemetry JMX receiver to send metrics to Lightstep Observability.
Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape Prometheus metrics from Micrometer and send them to Lightstep Observability.
Configure the Datadog Agent to send traces to Lightstep Observability.