LightStep, a leading provider of application performance
management for organizations adopting microservices, today announced new
product capabilities that transform how organizations visualize and manage
application performance and dramatically reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR)
for production incidents. With these improvements, LightStep enables teams to
recognize abnormal performance and immediately focus on what has changed.
Enterprise Strategy Group Sr. Analyst Edwin Yuen said:
"The application landscape has changed dramatically in the past few years and
traditional APM tools are no longer sufficient for new technologies like
microservices, serverless and cloud native applications. LightStep has made a
significant step forward not only by monitoring both modern and legacy
workloads, but in leveraging capabilities such as advanced histograms to
visualize performance issues. Companies leveraging modern application platforms
should look at LightStep for their performance monitoring needs."
Key new features include:
- Latency histograms for
anything. LightStep [x]PM renders precise histograms to
characterize any aspect of system performance, regardless of granularity,
and in real time
- Historical context. Real-time histogram
data is presented in context of historical histograms from one hour, one
day, or one week prior
- Dynamically filterable
results. Organizations can narrow or broaden scope as
needed to pinpoint any performance issue, all interactively and in real
time
"Software has evolved tremendously over the past twenty
years, but unfortunately the way that we both reason about and measure
performance has barely changed, until now," said Ben Sigelman, co-founder and
CEO of LightStep. "It's time for people to stop thinking about software
performance as a single number and to see it as a shape. Our new product
capabilities make even subtle performance regressions self-evident, and with
LightStep's distributed tracing capabilities, our customers can isolate the
root cause without the guesswork intrinsic to previous approaches."
LightStep's Innovation in Application
Performance Management Driving Significant Growth
In November 2017, LightStep emerged from stealth and
launched with customers Twilio, Lyft, Yext, GitHub and DigitalOcean. Since the
launch, LightStep:
- Was selected as an MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
Innovation Showcase finalist for developing a cutting-edge solution that
provides both strong value and innovation to the enterprise IT space
- Is seeing strong demand in the United States,
EMEA and APAC. New customers include Airtable, Grab, InVision, Ola,
Medium, Segment, Sift Science, Under Armour and Zalando
- Is integrated with Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie,
Grafana, Envoy, Istio, linkerd, and the hundreds of projects that
integrate with OpenTracing, an open source project started at LightStep
- Has doubled employee
headcount in the last 6 months, with significant investments in engineering,
product and go-to-market functions