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Revainrating 4 out of 5  
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4.2
IT Infrastructure, Monitoring Software

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Description of Lightstep

Lightstep’s observability platform is the easiest way for developers and SREs to monitor health and respond to changes in cloud-native applications. Powered by cutting-edge distributed tracing and a groundbreaking metrics database, and built by the team that launched observability at Google, Lightstep’s Change Intelligence provides actionable insights to help teams answer the question “What caused that change? Lightstep empowers reliability and observability managers to minimize the impact of outages, improve software performance, and build org-wide standards to drive adoption and automation.

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Revainrating 4 out of 5

LightStep is great for error tracing and aggregation

- Traces errors back to their point of origin.- Very easy setup using ELK stack (I am new to this but know it's used a lot).- The interface looks very simple without too much detail if you are not familiar with how logs work or what tools can be installed. I use light step mainly as an aggregator so don't always need all details available. For example there isn't enough information about API requests unless they have been instrumented which adds overhead. Also when logging something like 'Error

Pros
  • Has great documentation, lots examples provided in Github repos..etc..Great team! Highly recommended :)
Cons
  • Not intuitive at first; requires explanation before usage

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…

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

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great open source diagnostic tools: Lightstep

We use LightStep to diagnose problems with our product, and it has been invaluable. It's great to be able to visualize an issue we're having without needing to rely on someone else's experience. It's also great to have a tool like this available to everyone. So far I haven't found anything I dislike about LightStep. The UI could be improved, but there isn't much you can do in a web browser. Be sure to give them a try! We are solving complex problems with high availability requirements. This…

Pros
  • Easy integration
  • Simple interface
  • Highly configurable (not just data)
Cons
  • There are nuances