Built on top of rich distributed tracing data, metrics, and logs, the platform provides a unified view of telemetry data making it the quickest way to know what’s changed in […]
OpenTelemetry Announces First Wave of Beta Releases for Java, Go, JavaScript, Python, and .Net Components
SAN FRANCISCO—OpenTelemetry, an open source project created to provide a complete toolkit for cloud-native software observability, today announced the beta release of the first wave of supported languages, – including […]
Why DevOps Needs to Embrace Distributed Tracing
No one ever said devops was easy. Embracing devops means that owning a service is now more than just writing the code, but also deploying that code, monitoring it, and […]
From 1 to 10 Billion, Getting Up-to-Speed with Distributed Tracing
Distributed tracing is a critical tool for building and operating modern software applications. By giving you an end-to-end view of your application, tracing can help you build a better understanding […]
Three Pillars with Zero Answers: A New Observability Scorecard
Nobody denies the importance of observability in modern production software: with microservices adding scale, concurrency, and frequent deploys, it’s getting harder and harder to answer even basic questions about application […]
Lessons from the Birth of Microservices at Google
Google deserves a lot of credit for imagining (and popularizing) what we now call “microservice architectures.” With the benefit of hindsight, we now recognize that Google made mistakes during those […]
Performance is a Shape, Not a Number
Applications have evolved – again – and it’s time for performance analysis to follow suit In the last twenty years, the internet applications that improve our lives and drive our […]
LightStep Unveils APM for Microservices
Various forms of application performance management (APM) platforms have been around for some time. But with the rise of microservices many IT organizations are discovering that legacy APM platforms were […]
