ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) vs. CubeAPM

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.

CubeAPM is an OpenTelemetry-native observability and application performance monitoring (APM) platform that helps engineering and DevOps teams monitor applications, infrastructure, logs, and metrics from a single unified dashboard. Built for modern cloud and on-prem environments, CubeAPM offers full-stack visibility without sacrificing data control. It can be self-hosted inside your own cloud or data center, making it ideal for teams that need enterprise-grade observability while maintaining compliance with ISO 27001 standards.