LightStep
AcquiredObserve, understand, and resolve issues across distributed systems.
San Francisco, United States · Founded 2015 · $68.5M raised
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Employees
- 51–200
- Founded
- 2015
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- lightstep.com
- Total Funding
- $68.5M
- Last Round
- $41.0M Series CDec 2018
- Rounds
- 3
- Acquired by
- ServiceNowJun 2021 · $510.0M
About
LightStep was an observability platform founded in 2015 by former Google engineers to help organizations monitor and debug distributed, cloud-native applications at scale. The platform provided distributed tracing, metrics, and log correlation through a unified interface, enabling engineering teams to identify performance regressions across microservices deployments and resolve production incidents faster. LightStep was a founding contributor to the OpenTelemetry open-source standard and built deep integrations with Kubernetes, Prometheus, and major cloud providers. The company was acquired by ServiceNow in June 2021 for approximately $510 million and was subsequently rebranded as ServiceNow Cloud Observability in August 2023.
Summary
LightStep is a Cloud company based in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2015. It has raised $68.5M in total across 3 rounds, most recently a $41.0M Series C round in Dec 2018.
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