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# ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) Reviews
**Vendor:** ServiceNow  
**Category:** [Container Monitoring Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-monitoring-tools)  
**Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 20
## About 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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## ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) Features
**Functionality**
- Monitoring
- Alerting
- Logging
- Response Time
- Reporting
- Data Visualization

**Monitoring**
- Usage Monitoring
- Database Monitoring
- API Monitoring
- Real-Time Monitoring - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
- Security and Compliance Monitoring

**Visibility**
- Dashboards and Visualizations
- Alerts and Notifications
- Reporting

**Functionality**
- Diverse Systems Monitoring
- Real-Time Analytics
- Observability
- AI/ML Integration

**Monitoring**
- Performance Baselines
- Performance Analysis
- Performance Monitoring
- AI/ML Assistance
- Multi-System Monitoring

**Alerts management**
- Multi-mode alerts
- Opimization alerts
- Incident alerts

**Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability**
- Multi-Telemetry Ingestion
- OpenTelemetry Support

**Agentic AI - Observability Software**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

**Administration**
- Multi-Cloud Management
- Automation
- Auto-Scaling & Resource Optimization

**Monitoring and Management**
- Automation
- Performance Baseline
- Real-Time Monitoring

**Management**
- Single Pane of Glass
- Dashboards and Visualization
- Performance Baselines
- Alerting

**Response**
- Dashboards and Visualization
- Incident Alerting
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

**Monitoring**
- Resource utilization
- Real-time monitoring
- Performance baseline
- API monitoring

**Visualization & Dashboards - Observability**
- Service Dependency Mapping
- Unified Dashboard
- Trace Visualization

**Agentic AI - Database Monitoring**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

**Automation**
- Resolution automation
- Automation

**Analysis**
- Reporting
- Dashboards and Visualizations

**Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability**
- Cross-Telemetry Correlation
- Root Cause Detection
- Intelligent Alerting

**Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

**Agentic AI - Log Monitoring**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

**Agentic AI - Enterprise Monitoring**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

**Analysis**
- Search
- Reporting
- Visualization
- Track trends

**Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability**
- Kubernetes Monitoring
- Hybrid/Multi-Cloud Support

**Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring**
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

**Issue Resolution**
- Root cause identification
- Resolution guidance
- Proactive identification

**AI Features - Observability**
- Predictive Insights
- AI-Generated Incident Summaries
- AI Anomaly Detection

**AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring**
- AI-Powered Anomaly Detection
- AI-Driven Insight Recommendations

**Performance**
- Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- Second by Second Metrics

**Functionality**
- Synthetic Monitoring
- Dynamic Transaction Mapping
- Load Balancing
- Cloud Observability

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