Performance

Migrate from Datadog to Lightstep Observability

Learn how to migrate your metric and trace data from Datadog to Lightstep Observability.

AWS Aurora metrics

See the AWS Aurora metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS DynamoDB metrics

See the AWS DynamoDB metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS EC2 metrics

See the AWS EC2 metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS ElastiCache metrics

See the AWS ElastiCache metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

AWS SQS metrics

See the AWS SQS metrics ingested by Lightstep Observability

Create and manage dashboards

Learn how to create dashboards that can display both your metric and span data.

Create dashboards from Streams

Group multiple Streams to create a dashboard.

Create deployment markers

You can add deployment markers to the Service Health for Deployments view so that you can easily see when service versions change, and if the change affects performance in any way.

Find correlated areas of latency and errors

A standard method of identifying the root cause of a performance regression is to manually comb through traces and search for common system attributes associated with that regression or with errors. With Correlations, Lightstep Observability helps you find attributes correlated with latency and errors automatically.

How Lightstep Observability displays metrics

Learn how Lightstep Observability displays metrics.

Ingest Node Exporter metrics

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from node-exporter 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 kube-state-metrics

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

Ingest kubelet metrics

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

Ingest metrics from ActiveMQ

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

Ingest metrics from Amazon

Configure Amazon metrics to report to Lightstep Observability.

Ingest metrics from Apache

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

Ingest metrics from Cassandra

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

Ingest metrics from Ceph

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

Ingest metrics from Cilium 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.

Ingest metrics from ClickHouse

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

Ingest metrics from Cockroach

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

Ingest metrics from Collectd

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

Ingest metrics from CouchDB

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

Ingest metrics from Couchbase

Use the OpenTelemetry Prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from Couchbase and then send them to 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 Docker stats

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

Ingest metrics from Elasticsearch

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

Ingest metrics from Envoy

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

Ingest metrics from ExternalDNS

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

Ingest metrics from Google Cloud Monitoring

Configure Google Cloud metrics to report to Lightstep Observability.

Ingest metrics from HAProxy

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

Ingest metrics from HBase

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

Ingest metrics from Hadoop

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

Ingest metrics from Hashicorp Consul

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

Ingest metrics from Hashicorp Nomad

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

Ingest metrics from Hashicorp Vault

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

Ingest metrics from IBM MQ

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

Ingest metrics from Istio

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

Ingest metrics from Java/JMX

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

Ingest metrics from Kafka

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

Ingest metrics from Kong Ingress

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

Ingest metrics from Linux Host

Use the OpenTelemetry Host receiver to send metrics 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 Memcached

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

Ingest metrics from Micrometer

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

Ingest metrics from MongoDB

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

Ingest metrics from Monit with Telegraf

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

Ingest metrics from MySQL

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

Ingest metrics from NGINX

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

Ingest metrics from PostgreSQL

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

Ingest metrics from RabbitMQ

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

Ingest metrics from Redis

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

Ingest metrics from Solr

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

Ingest metrics from StatsD

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

Ingest metrics from Tomcat

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

Ingest metrics from Varnish

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

Ingest metrics from ZooKeeper

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

Ingest metrics from any HTTP endpoint with Telegraf

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

Ingest metrics from etcd

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

Ingest metrics from the NGINX Ingress Controller

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

Ingest traces from the Datadog Agent

Configure the Datadog Agent to send traces to Lightstep Observability.

Investigate a latency regression

You can use Lightstep Observability not only to monitor your services after a deploy, but also to compare performance over specific time periods and then dig into details to find the differences that caused the issue.

Investigate an error rate increase

When you notice an increase in error rate on Lightstep Observability's Service Health view, you can use the analytical tools to find the source of errors.

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.

Query real-time span data

Lightstep Observability's Explorer view allows you to query all span data currently in the Microsatellites' retention window to see what's going on. You create Snapshots that are durably persisted, allowing you to view performance at a certain point in time and share that Snapshot with others. You can see real-time span data, filter and group that data, and drill down on common attributes that may be causing latency.

View Lightstep Observability Streams in Grafana

Integrate and see Lightstep Observability dashboards in Grafana. From the Grafana UI you can navigate directly to Lightstep Observability where you can continue your investigation.

View and compare deployed versions

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

View service health

Lightstep Observability offers a way to quickly see how all your services and their operations are performing in one place - the Service Directory view.

View service hierarchy and performance

You can use Lightstep Observability's Service diagram to get an aggregate view of trace data as a request travels through your system. The Service diagram provides a visual, interactive, and hierarchical representation of a system’s behavior for a given point in time.

View traces

You use the Trace view to see a full trace from beginning to end of a request. The Trace view shows you a flame graph of the full trace (each service a different color) and below that, each span is shown in a hierarchy, allowing you to see the parent-child relationship of all the spans in the trace. Errors are shown in red.

See what you can do with Lightstep Observability!