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What is Lightrun?

Named 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor, Lightrun builds an IDE-native observability & debugging platform that enables developers to securely add logs, metrics and traces to production and staging environments in real time, on demand. No hotfixes, redeployments or restarts required. Developers use Lightrun for multiple code-level observability needs, including: * Code-level alerts (Java, Node.js, Python, .NET) * Feature verification * Testing / debugging in production * Troubleshooting cloud native apps, Serverless, and more * Log optimization capabilities through a Log Optimizer(TM) By eliminating the need to reproduce bugs locally or issue a new software version for adding new logs or metrics to troubleshoot production issues, Lightrun's customers consistently reduce their MTTR by up to 50-60% and significantly improve development productivity. Issues that used to take 1-2 weeks to mitigate now take our customers on average less than an hour to solve. Lightrun empowers our customers' developers by eliminating the need for costly developer lifecycle operations like reproducing locally, or issuing a new software version just for adding new logs or metrics. Our customers, running petabyte-scale workloads with QPS in the high 100Ks across thousands of production servers, include companies that reach 44.5% of the internet's population and major, publicly-traded cybersecurity companies.

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Product Description

Powerful Production Debugger - securely add logs, performance metrics and traces to production and staging in real time


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Seller
Lightrun
Year Founded
2019
HQ Location
Tel Aviv, IL
Twitter
@Lightruntech
269 Twitter followers
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Lightrun: A tool for Development Observability"
It's really useful for diagnosis in higher environments, the usage of logs allows us to verify if a request is reaching a certain part without manu...
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shanir f.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Helped me with debugging my environment production"
The ability, to do snapshot during a run
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"A must have tool that saved hours of debugging!"
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 enabl...
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R&D Team Leader at Migdal Group
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

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.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

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

What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using Lightrun saves a lot of development and production investigation time.

We are using Lightrun during our development phase and to investigate production issues.

Instead of deploying a spcieal version with logs to see what happened (and then redploy without the logs), we just use Lightrun.

With a few clicks in the IDE we can see a snapshot of the code in the corresponding environment and see what is wrong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

It's really useful for diagnosis in higher environments, the usage of logs allows us to verify if a request is reaching a certain part without manually adding logs to the code and re-deploying the application which used to take a lot of time. Implementing it in the codebase is really straightforward for most agents and the support from the Lightrun team has been great. Its a really good tool for daily debugging tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

The plugins and agents are still a work in progress, there a many bugs related to them and the integration with certain agents like NodeJS have proven problematic and limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm able to create new logs without redeploying my application everytime, also i can see information from higher environments without connecting my local environment to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lightrun?

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.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

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

What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main benefit of the tool is finding bugs and have a glossary of your real time data in a very easy and simple way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Backend Developer
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

The ability, to do snapshot during a run Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

The disability to evaluate different expressions while taking a snapshot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows me to track bugs and issues in production without needing to release a new version each time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lightrun?

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.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

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.

What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?

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.

Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

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.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

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.

What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?

It especialy helpful in bugs that are being reproduced only in SQA servers, bugs that can not be reproduced and debugged on your local envrionment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lightrun?

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.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

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

What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lightrun helped me with a Kafka bug we had in our production environment and they was no way other than this to find the problem out and fix it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Java Backend Tech Lead
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

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

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

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

What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?

Bug tracking in production Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lightrun?

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.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

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.

What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?

The tool fits perfectly into my testing using Webdriverio with Node.js and TypeScript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lightrun?

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.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

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.

What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?

When you are a development team which has got multiple services running across various environments, tracking down & debugging issues becomes challenging. Lightrun helps us to greatly reduce debugging time on production environments by adding logs & snapshots in real time, without having to redeploy any services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.