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LIGHTSTEP
Distributed tracing and observability for cloud-native applications
ABOUT
Debugging performance issues in microservice architectures is extremely difficult — a single user request can traverse dozens of services, each adding latency or errors, with traditional monitoring tools providing only per-service metrics and logs without end-to-end context. Lightstep provides distributed tracing that follows a single request across every service, database, and queue in its path, pinpointing which service is slow, which call is failing, and what the root cause is — all with high-cardinality metadata and real-time streaming analysis.
INSTALL
pip install lightstepINTEGRATION GUIDE
1. Trace a single user request across dozens of microservices to identify the root cause of latency spikes and errors
2. Monitor service-level objectives with real-time burn-rate alerts and error budget tracking for critical services
3. Analyze high-cardinality trace data — service versions, deployment IDs, user cohorts — to correlate changes with performance
4. Integrate with OpenTelemetry to instrument services with standard APIs and export traces directly to Lightstep
5. Accelerate incident response with automated causation analysis that links trace data to deploys, config changes, and infrastructure events
TAGS
distributed-tracingobservabilityapmmicroservicesopentelemetryincident-response