Lightrun Pros and Cons

Lightrun is an outstanding product. it's really true helping developers debug in real time. no need to deploy patches with log prints, just use Lightrun and see exactly what happened and what need to be fixedץ

Another advantage is their customer support which is very responsive.

It is very easy and intiutive to use Lightrun. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only "complaint" I have is lack of support of more IDE's like ecplise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool can help find bugs and to capture a real time picture of variables in a production enviroment in a very easy manner.

Very simple to enable Lightrun on services.

The tool is easy to use and Lightrun have a great support team.

I used this tool every day and it helps me a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes features are limitied because snapshots can affect the app performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As an SRE we predominantly work on customer issues related to our product, lightrun became the go-to tool now whenever we require to debug more on our application behavior. It is a small yet powerful tool that can help debug multiple corner cases with its logging capability. With Lightrun, we have debugged and resolved multiple issues on the fly. This will reduce lot of our headaches and hassle - "Code re-work --> Re-test --> Re-deploy and Re-execution of services" which we usually do just to debug one customer issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing much to dislike about it, just if theme changes are supported in UI it would be better and refreshing. The individual taste will vary with users I am fine with the current one as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it is very easy to use, just connect to the right agent and the party is on! The snapshot feature is incredible and helps you understand what exactly happened during your code execution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That you must verify that your file is identical to the one that running in your agent server. Even the slight change might affect the results of your snapshot and log, or even whether or not they will be hit.

Maybe this could be change if it will be enough just to verify that the function you are iterested in will be identical to the one that is in the agent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How easy it is to implement lightrun and use it. Everything was accessible from my ideaj. Amazing Ease of Integration and Customer Support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The amount of information a snapshot it provides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best production ready applicat for observability at runtime Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When taking a snapshot the full stack trace is not shown Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a tester, Lightrun has revolutionized my approach to a common hurdle: debugging issues found in production. Its integration directly into the production environment is a game-changer. No more endless emails or replication requests. With Lightrun, I'm diving into issues head-on, inspecting variables and expressions in real-time, all while the system runs smoothly.

So far it has streamlined my workflow remarkably, making debugging more efficient. This is crucial since getting access to production environments can often be a struggle in many companies.

The core benefit Lightrun offers to testers like me is the ability to debug in production. This sidesteps the often tedious task of replicating issues in development settings, which might not mirror production closely. Thanks to Lightrun, I'm able to deliver sharper, more accurate feedback to developers, boosting our collaborative efforts and overall efficiency.

The real-time debugging feature of Lightrun has significantly altered my approach to handling production-specific bugs. Its seamless integration into the production setting underscores its effectiveness, greatly improving my testing process and outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing specific. Some clients will not comfortable having an agent running on the system. In those cases the advantages should be demonstrated to overcome any potential pushback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability that Lightrun has to injest logs in our codebase through it's agents on live production environments is incredible.

Adding & configuring Lightrun integration to you codebase is very easy. We can also see the list of agents & configured actions in a nice grouped form.

Creating new actions is easy, with support for options like logs, snapshots, counters, etc.

When we have some issues, the Lightrun support team is very quick to respond & help us our with our queries.

Due to these amazing benefits, our Team uses Lightrun quite frequently whenever we want to debug any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Lightrun VS Code plugin has some minor issues, like it's UI can be improved a bit, & the account login issue can be resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We faced an issue where database was giving a mischevious error due to an incorrect index, the value showed an undefined.

In traditional setting we would have to replicate all the data of user with patterns to check that the index was failing for a certain pattern, this would be time consuming task and would mean a lot of TAT for the user.

With lightrun, we were able to solve this issue under 5 mins by simply adding a break point and logging it, finding out the issue is not in data but in a specific pattern that's getting inserted.

The customer support is so simple that you just send them a slack message and they come back on it instantly, no raise a ticket/email and wait asynchronously.

Integration with VS Code if flawless, due to ease of integration we can use it on dev environments quite frequently as well.

the imeplementation is also pretty straightforward and very close to regular debugging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VScode extension can be improved so that minor bugs related to UI can be solved and the product becomes "pixel perfect"

The feedback given to lightrun is usually taken sincerely and worked on! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

solves production bugs that are not reproducable localy

great support

ease of use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

needs to be instaled on every enviprment and agent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.