Lightrun Reviews & Product Details

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.

Its ability to seamlessly integrate with IntelliJ, allowing for real-time debugging without disrupting the workflow. The snapshot feature is particularly powerful, enabling me to pinpoint issues in complex, multi-service environments with ease and efficiency. This significantly accelerates the debugging process and enhances overall productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the only option is to log the data, I would like somehow to debug it step by step. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lightrun's best feature is that it is easy to integrate with any environment, be it production or lower environments. This amazing tool allows you to add a virtual brealpoint in application code and whenever that code gets a hit, it will capture all the data in a snapshot at that particular point. Also you can add conditions and expressions for when you want to capture the snapshot, making it easy to bifurcate from all the generic requests. The easy to use tool is acting as a game changer to debug and test your code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool is on the right path of its growth, Lightrun is constantly evolving itself with user needs and our feedback is actively taken for constant improvements. I am sure the tool has a great future plus working with this folks is super amazing as their primary goal is user satisfaction! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The agent approach is the way to go, used by many other specialized tooling solutions. The logging feature is very nice and it suports standard Java conditions evaluation. Snapshots are the most useful because you can add them anywhere you need. Also, you can use either IntelliJ IDEA or Visual Studio Code to use Lightrun plugins, which are easy to use. Finally, you can have as many agents as you need along with your deployments, which can be configured to run with minimal resources in order to not detriment environment resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You need to have the deployed source code version you want to debug using Lightrun and most features are only supported for Java and Node.js right now. Also AI features are not yet ready, but do look very promising! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

Great customer support and relations,

The people in lightrun helped us with implementation and use cases, and followed up with us along the way.

Great tools and options for on the fly debugging and problem investigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Plug ins to the IDE can be a little difficult to use from time to time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lightrun has become an essential debugging tool for our team. Its ability to capture snapshots during runtime, plus its speed, efficiency, and user-friendly features significantly improve our development workflow and ultimately, our ability to deliver a positive customer experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

accasional delays and small bugs that interrups workflows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lightrun makes it very easy to observe and debug our apps in runtime, because of that we have become more shift left ready. By allowing to inject telemetry directly from the developer machine we are able to reduce our MMTR in critical issues which significantly helped derisk and bring tangible cost reduction. Combining this with continuous testing via automation, mock services and API monitoring, we have a pretty solid pipeline in place now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wouldn't say dislike but I think more examples like the online playground would make ease our team adoption and usage further. There is a small learning curve, but like everything useful it's kind of part of the fun too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.