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What do you like best about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

They open source their libraries and which made it easy to identify a performance issue, submit a PR, and get an updated library with a quick turn around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

They have a tremendous amount of data, and I expect it to take some time to put together. I wish were quicker though when I'm facing an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Their correlation feature is killer. If a service is degraded it pinpoints the source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) Overview

What is ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly 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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Lightstep is rethinking observability in the emerging world of microservices and high concurrency. Its first product enables developers and devops to trace individual requests through complex systems with incredibly high fidelity.


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Recent ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) Reviews

Ashita K.
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Ashita K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"One of the best tool for developers!"
Lightstep is one of the best logs tracing tool in the market. I like it's easy to integrate capabilities which allow me to integrate this with my a...
Khemraj S.
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Khemraj S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Excellent tool for logs tracing!!"
Lightstep is the best tool available in the market. I like it's capabilities for logs tracing and matrix generation which makes developers job easy...
Kuldeep R.
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Kuldeep R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Fabulous tool for tracing issues!!"
I like the capability of integrating lightstep with any other platforms with few easy steps and allow to generate metrix and tracing. It helped me ...
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ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) Media

ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) Demo - Workflows for more productive DevOps teams
Break down organizational silos with comprehensive views of system health and customer behavior that can be shared with ease.
ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) Demo - Built for OpenTelemetry (and everything else)
We co-founded open standards like OpenTelemetry and OpenTracing to give developers access to portable, vendor-neutral telemetry data. Not there yet? We also support integrations with Jaeger, Zipkin, Prometheus, AWS, and hundreds more.
ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) Demo - Let's make observability easier
It shouldn’t take hours to resolve incidents or investigate performance issues. That’s the way things used to be. Lightstep automatically detects changes to your application, infrastructure, and user experience — and surfaces the exact causes.
ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) Demo - Infrastructure and application metrics
Years ago, we built Google’s planet-scale metrics and tracing systems (Monarch and Dapper). We launched Lightstep’s metrics to automatically surface the insights teams need to resolve issues and improve performance — without scrolling through dozens of dashboards. Added bonus: high-cardinal...
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Khemraj S.
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What do you like best about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

Lightstep is the best tool available in the market. I like it's capabilities for logs tracing and matrix generation which makes developers job easy for troubleshooting issues if any error comes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

I have started using this tool recently. As of now I haven't seen any dislikes about this product. I am still exporing the features this tool can offer. No dislikes as of now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lightstep helped me to improve performance of my application. I used this tool for performance monitoring, which was perfectly done by Lightstep. I also take advantage of error log monitoring from this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

The best thing I like about it is that it provides complete control to a developer regarding adding manual instrumentation to a piece of code. This way, the developer can push only the required data to LightStep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

The service inference diagram is not real-time. Also, many of the caller services are missing from it often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using LightStep to add instrumentation to my code. It benefits me as I can add manual operations to my code and push them to it. This way, I can get insights into my code metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Khemraj S.
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What do you like best about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

Lightstep easy to integrate with any programs to trace logs for errors. It make it easiler to track the log and find out root cause of the issue. Log description is also fair enough to get the quick resolution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

It's easy to integrate it with native languages, but some of the lowcode plateform can't be used with this. Lightstep should work towards releasing plugins for popular lowcode platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helped me to optimize performance of my application and easily track issues if any code break happends in any place. It does well descriptive logs so we can understand it quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

Lightstep is one of the best logs tracing tool in the market. I like it's easy to integrate capabilities which allow me to integrate this with my application and monitor logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

In performance logs, sometimes it result is non reliable. I tried the same scenario 4 times, and all 4 times the performance logs were different. This could be issue of CPU as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) solving and how is that benefiting you?

This helped me to generate my application logs which I have used for performance improvement and issues troubleshooting. It made my job easy and timesaving for above. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kuldeep R.
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What do you like best about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

I like the capability of integrating lightstep with any other platforms with few easy steps and allow to generate metrix and tracing. It helped me to troubleshoot issues quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

Although it's easy to integrate with any other platform, but it's API documentation is no so great. It should be updated to reflect latest code over there. Apart from that, rest all are good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) solving and how is that benefiting you?

This tool helped me to generate logs to troubleshoot issues quickly and monitor performance of my application with easy to read detailed logs over performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nikitha S.
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What do you like best about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

Lightstep provides an exceptional incident response management platform that gives clear visibility on our tasks that needs immediate attention, alerts & incident assigned to the team, pending tasks and information about critical & degraded services in our hybrid cloud infrastructure. It includes various service integrations to enhance observability and to monitor our instances in cloud platforms. We can also utilize pre-built monitoring integrations to send alerts of failures/defects at the earliest so that we can start analyzing the issue within a shorter duration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

We face some difficulties while working with the Lighstep incident response mobile app. It is not as fluid as the Lightstep web interface and is slow at times while I work with the incidents assigned to me using my mobile device. Notification management is convenient for me using its mobile app as I can engage immediately in case of business-critical incidents from viewing them on my mobile device. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lightstep is essential for our incident response schedules so that all our teams know whom to contact at a particular time during off-business hours. We set up escalation policies in such a way that there would be at least one Primary POC and one Secondary POC to engage in priority incidents. We also carry out automatic monitoring of alerts using its pre-built integration plugins for our AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor and Datadog services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

Tracing a particular request can be quickly done with Lightstep to find issues/errors in the services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

Sometimes UI/UX experience is not that great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lightstep helped in tracing service requests and providing observability to our cloud deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

Lightstep provides lots of features to help us get insight on tracing. Specifically it provides things like analysis over what deployments a change occurred and dependency graphs that can help easily identify an ecosystem of large micro services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

It can be a bit daunting and difficult to use at first as the UI can be a bit complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lightstep helps provides visibility over our services and provides pinpoints to where things may go wrong from errors to introduced performance issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

I like the user interface and functionalities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

That I didn't find it earlier. I think I like everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I helps me with responding to the changes in cloud-native applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

Really good product: We tried out multiple Distributed Tracing solutions.

By conforming to the OpenTracing standards and providing excellent support to help us PoC it, they got us hooked.

That they maintained a continued commitment to customer satisfaction over the two years since.

Moreover, this impression has lasted through our interacted with different people in LightStep in various roles.

The good service provided includes excellent turnabout on feature requests, anticipating our needs well in advance and amazing transparency & communication about their future roadmap.

They provide amazing documentation & training material, including on-site & virtual training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)?

Sometimes some of their more ambitious web pages can get a bit slow, making it a balance between excellent functionality against my patience, but they've been steadily trying to find a good balance by providing lazy loaded components to speed up normal interaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep):

Highly recommend it, not just for its features, but for the quality of service provided by the Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Improved observability across our systems.

Ease of Instrumentation.

Improving metrics like Mean Time to Identify & Resolve of critical issues.

Using the Root Cause Analysis in our everyday debugging has reduced the net effort expended across the board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.