# Lightstep Integration
[Lightstep](https://docs.lightstep.com/) automatically detects changes to your application, infrastructure, and user experience to provide better monitoring and observability. By sending Lightstep tracing alerts into ilert, your on-call engineers receive timely technical alerts about service latency, error spikes, or performance anomalies. Automated escalation ensures issues are addressed quickly before they impact end users or SLAs.
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Cloud Observability / Lightstep will no longer be supported after March 1, 2026. For details and migration guidance, see [the official documentation](https://docs.lightstep.com/changelog/eol-notice).
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## In ilert: Create a Lightstep alert source
1. Go to **Alert sources** --> **Alert sources** and click on **Create new alert source**
2. Search for **Lightstep** in the search field, click on the Lightstep tile and click on **Next**.
3. Give your alert source a name, optionally assign teams and click **Next**.
4. Select an **escalation policy** by creating a new one or assigning an existing one.
5. Select you [Alert grouping](https://docs.ilert.com/alerting/configure-alerting/alert-sources#alert-grouping) preference and click **Continue setup**. You may click **Do not group alerts** for now and change it later.
6. The next page show additional settings such as customer alert templates or notification prioritiy. Click on **Finish setup** for now.
7. On the final page, an API key and / or webhook URL will be generated that you will need later in this guide.
## In Lightstep
1. Create a **Notification Destination** by clicking the **Bell Icon** on the left of Dashboard, and click "**Notification Destination**" tab and click "**Create a Destination**" and choose "**Webhook**"
2. Complete the webhook creation, by putting in the name and put the **Lighstep URL** that we got earlier in ilert dashboard on URL field
3. You need to assign the webhook destination to an Alert, if you don't have an Alert, you can create a new one, by navigating to Stream (**Frequency Wave icon** on the left side of the dashboad) and click the stream that you want to assign to
4. **Create an alert** by clicking the button on the top right of the stream dashboard, fill in the details, and assign the **Notifcation** **Destination** to the one that we created earlier
5. Upon clicking "**Create**" button, the alert should be created and the Notification Destination should be assigned, and when the condition met, it will create an incident on ilert
