G2 Vendor Directory

ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) vs. Better Stack

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)

by ServiceNow

Better Stack

by Better Stack

Overall rating4.64.8
Review count20345
Ease of use9.39.6
Ease of setup9.09.7
Quality of support9.79.5
Meets requirements9.29.5
NPS73.68421192.982456
Small Business20.0%91.0%
Mid-Market35.0%8.4%
Enterprise45.0%0.6%
Total page views591,099
Total LLM citations23846,812

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.

Pros

    Better Stack

    Better Stack is an eBPF-based, AI SRE observability tool. It helps engineers ship high-quality software faster and be the hero of their engineering teams.

    Pros

    • Ease of Use
    • Easy Setup
    • User Interface
    • Setup Ease
    • Alerting System
    • Monitoring