# Lightstep

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lightstep/  
**Website:** https://lightstep.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Lightstep, now ServiceNow Cloud Observability, is a distributed tracing and observability platform that helps teams monitor, debug, and optimize microservice performance. It provides deep visibility into distributed systems using OpenTelemetry-based tracing, metrics, and service health monitoring.

## Kin Score — 24.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 24.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 26.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 30.3 |
| Access Clarity | 30.3 |

## Agent readiness — 15.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Lightstep API** — The Lightstep API provides programmatic access to observability data including traces, spans, streams, dashboards, alerting conditions, and service health. It enables teams to m...

## Security (1)

- **Lightstep Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Lightstep Plans Pricing**

## Tags

APM, Distributed Tracing, Microservices, Monitoring, Observability, OpenTelemetry

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/lightstep/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.