--- title: Lightrun Reviews meta\_title: 'Lightrun Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 67 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Lightrun works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.8 review\_count: 67 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: DevOps url: https://www.g2.com/categories/devops --- # Lightrun Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Lightrun but has limited features. Are you part of the Lightrun team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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. * * * Seller [Lightrun](https://www.g2.com/sellers/lightrun) Discussions [Lightrun Community](https://www.g2.com/products/lightrun-lightrun/discuss) Languages Supported English, Hebrew, Russian Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Or Maimon Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/lightrun-lightrun/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Dynatrace](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dynatrace") Dynatrace 4.5/5(1,366) ](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews) [ ![Datadog](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Datadog") Datadog 4.4/5(726) ](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) [ ![New Relic](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "New Relic") New Relic 4.4/5(586) ](https://www.g2.com/products/new-relic/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/lightrun-lightrun/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 67 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Ankush R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ankush R.") AR Ankush R. 1/14/2026 "Efficient Debugging with Snapshot Insights" 4/5 What do you like best about Lightrun? I use Lightrun for debugging and metrics, and I really like the snapshot feature and method duration. These features help me find specific values during debugging which is quite useful. The initial setup of Lightrun was quite easy for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Lightrun? P955/P99 metrics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you? I use Lightrun for debugging and metrics, finding specific values during debugging and checking method duration using its snapshot feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/4/2025 "Lightrun: A tool for Development Observability" 3.5/5 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. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Ryan D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ryan D.") RD Ryan D. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/19/2023 "Lightrun is a valuable tool with a somewhat steep learning curve" 4/5 What do you like best about Lightrun? Being able to easily see within running prod environment apps is very helpful for debugging issues and can show information that you could never get without running the app locally, which can become very difficult in setups with many apps communicating between themselves. The actual writing of logs is easy and setup isn't too difficult Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Lightrun? When Lightrun logs throw errors it can be difficult to parse why they're happening. Sometimes there will be errors for "unreachable code" when I know the code is getting hit and it can be hard to figure out why a log is failing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you? When I am working on fixing production bugs, Lightrun helps get a quick eye in the code for checking where an issue or a missing piece of information is happening Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Prashant M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Prashant M.") PM Prashant M. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/31/2023 "Lightrun a tool for quick debug snapshots and code metrics" 4/5 What do you like best about Lightrun? Lightrun allows you to debug code remotely in Intellij super fast without any nasty ports being opened in Production and connect to a specific pod/node if required to isolate the problem real quick and remediate it. Adding loggers is a plus too to observe values real time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Lightrun? The UI for Intellij plugin can be worked upon more for searching tags etc and integration for NewRelic and splunk can be more verbose in docs for Infra teams to understand. Also if they can have some mechanism of integrating agent keys in a different way and not have to add arguments to each agent which can be a lot of services in an org that would make adoption smoother and faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps in faster QA development turn around times for developers while deploying branches for testing before merging PRs and helps in production incidents to debug issues quicker Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/19/2023 "Lightrun and in complex production environments" 4/5 What do you like best about Lightrun? Lightrun helped us to debug a complex system in production with very few steps. It helped us also to with sneaky memory leaks. The IDE plugin just works! The deployment and the integration was just like installing any 3rd party libs. The snapshot feature helped us a lot. Thanks to Eliran and Noam for the support🙏🏼 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Lightrun? The bad thing is that you need to know what you are looking for. Also maybe the tags should be better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you? Some sneaky memory leaks and some annoying bugs that were reproduced only in production Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic PZ Pavel Z. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/14/2023 "Remote debug with friendly UI" 4/5 What do you like best about Lightrun? Simplicity in debugging, logging on remote deployment. Friendly and simple UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Lightrun? Not supporting new java versions on time, some limitations related to performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you? Remote debugging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") EC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/7/2023 "A great tool for production debugging" 4/5 What do you like best about Lightrun? Integrated with IntelliJ. Has an on-prem option. Secure architecture. Has a good support team. Does not affect the underlying service operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Lightrun? The UI and usability can be improved. The on-prem still has disadvantages vs. the cloud in the day-to-day operation, support, stability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you? Many issues are reproducible in production only. This tool allows us to debug effectively in production. Saves time and logging costs. Improves the time to resolution for customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about Lightrun? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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