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Review on Lightstep by Mark Bearden

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Great tool for tracking performance & error data

I can easily see which services are causing bottlenecks within my application stack, and with the ability to correlate these with errors in my logs, it's very easy to pinpoint exactly where each issue is coming from. The integration into Visual Studio Code is brilliant as well - you can have an immediate view of the status of your codebase without having to open up a separate IDE window. It would be great if we could get more details about what's happening under the hood when there are issues (eg. latency spikes, etc.). We're using LightStep to track down problems across our microservice architecture so that we can fix them quickly.

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Pros
  • With everything available directly through VS
  • Code interface; debugging performance metrics/profiles at run time makes all kinds monitoring painless! Also their support for custom dashboards really helps us do some nice visualization &, reporting work flow
Cons
  • Not much else come along mind but maybe better logging / alerting mechanism? Or perhaps make sure log data has proper headers