Clay Smith

Clay Smith is an engineer on the Partnerships team at Lightstep. He’s passionate about helping development and operations teams use observability tools to make their jobs easier. Prior to Lightstep, Clay has been a technical consultant at frog design, a developer advocate at New Relic, and one of the first product engineers at PagerDuty.

Posts by Clay Smith

Integrations

Leverage Observability With OpenTelemetry to Understand Root Cause Quickly

An observability solution should help any incident responder understand what changed and why. A lot has been written on the difference between ...

Reliability

Lessons Learned from Creating a Reliable Mobile Build

PagerDuty engineers are obsessed with reliability. Letting down customers when they’ve been paged is the worst. With that in mind, we’re ...

Features

Hack Your On-Call Status with PagerDuty's API

Knowing your on-call status is more important than knowing if it’s raining outside. Unlike dealing with the drizzle that’s passed over San ...

Reliability

Holiday Gift Guide for On-Call Engineers

Don’t know what to give your on-call colleague or family member for the holidays? Look no further. Get them something they will actually use. Create...