OpenTelemetry

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Ingest OpenTelemetry metrics

Ingest OpenTelemetry Metrics encoded using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP)

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Ingest metrics using the OpenTelemetry Collector

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

Product Docs

Ingest metrics using the OpenTelemetry SDK

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

Product Docs

Mapping Prometheus concepts to Lightstep Observability

How do Prometheus metrics translate to Lightstep Observability metrics?

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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.

Product Docs

Monitor the OpenTelemetry Collector

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

Product Docs

OpenTelemetry metrics protocol guide

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

Product Docs

Troubleshooting Missing Data in Lightstep

Data can appear incomplete or not appear in Lightstep for several reasons. Here are some troubleshooting steps for the most common causes.

Integrations

Ingest metrics using the OpenTelemetry Collector

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

OpenTelemetry Docs

About the Collector

Learn about the OpenTelemetry Collector, and how to use it to send your telemetry data to Lightstep.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Already using OpenTelemetry Collectors?

If you've already instrumented with OpenTelemetry using Collectors, then getting data into Lightstep Observability requires only an edit to the configuration file.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Configure the OpenTelemetry Collector to use a web proxy

Learn how to configure your OpenTelemetry Collector to send telemetry data via a web security appliance or proxy.

OpenTelemetry Docs

General OTLP Configuration

Generic configuration information for OTLP ingest to Lightstep Observability.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Lightstep's recommended Collector configuration

Use Lightstep best practices to configure your Collector

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Miscellaneous configuration

Other information about configuring OpenTelemetry with Lightstep Observability.

OpenTelemetry Docs

OpenTelemetry Quick Start

Get started with OpenTelemetry and Lightstep Observability using the OpenTelemetry Demo app to see data in Lightstep quickly.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Quick Start Kubernetes: Collector and Operator

Learn about the Kubernetes Operator for OpenTelemetry Collector, and how to use it to send telemetry from k8s clusters to Lightstep.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Quick Start: Collector for application data

Learn about the OpenTelemetry Collector, and how to use it to send your telemetry data to Lightstep.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Quick Start: Collector for infrastructure metrics

Learn about the OpenTelemetry Collector, and how to use it to send your telemetry data to Lightstep.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Quick Start: Tracing instrumentation

Learn how to instrument your app for distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry and Lightstep Observability.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Send telemetry data via OTLP/HTTP

Learn how to configure your instrumentation or OpenTelemetry Collector to send telemetry data to Lightstep's OTLP/HTTP endpoints.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Send traces to Lightstep with .NET

Learn how to instrument your .NET application using OpenTelemetry and then send data to Lightstep Observability.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Send traces to Lightstep with Go

Learn how to instrument your Go application using OpenTelemetry and then send data to Lightstep Observability.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Send traces to Lightstep with Java

Learn how to instrument your Java application using OpenTelemetry and then send data to Lightstep Observability.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Send traces to Lightstep with Node.JS

Learn how to instrument your Node.JS application using OpenTelemetry and then send data to Lightstep Observability.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Send traces to Lightstep with Python

Learn how to instrument your Python application using OpenTelemetry and then send data to Lightstep Observability.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Special topics

Observability special topics

OpenTelemetry Docs

Tracing Instrumentation Best Practices

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?

OpenTelemetry Docs

Use attributes and log events to find issues fast

A span can have zero or more key/value *attributes*. Attributes allow you to create metadata about the span.

OpenTelemetry Docs

What is OpenTelemetry?

Learn about OpenTelemetry and how it can help you in your Observability journey.

OpenTelemetry Docs

Where to begin

Getting started with OpenTelemetry for Lightstep Observability.