ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) vs. Checkmk

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.

Checkmk is a full-stack monitoring and observability platform designed to provide unified visibility into hybrid IT infrastructures. With more than 2,000 built-in integrations, it offers broad coverage across networks, servers, cloud workloads, Kubernetes and applications. The platform is highly automated, featuring auto-discovery of hosts and services and rule-based configuration to reduce manual setup. It is highly scalable, capable of efficiently monitoring thousands of hosts and millions of services.