# Lightrun Reviews **Vendor:** Lightrun **Category:** [Bug Tracking Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/bug-tracking) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 67 ## About 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. ## Lightrun Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Lightrun, making debugging and production issue resolution effortless. (7 reviews) - Users value Lightrun for its **real-time debugging capabilities** , simplifying the process of identifying and resolving production issues. (6 reviews) - Users value Lightrun for its **effective bug detection** , providing real-time snapshots that simplify debugging in production. (4 reviews) - Users commend Lightrun for its **responsive customer support** that enhances the debugging experience significantly. (4 reviews) - Users find the **initial setup easy** , enabling smooth integration into their workflow and enhancing debugging efficiency. (4 reviews) - Users value the **real-time monitoring** of Lightrun, appreciating its efficiency in debugging and understanding production flows. (4 reviews) - Useful (4 reviews) - Users value Lightrun's **real-time debugging capabilities** , enhancing workflow and improving customer experience significantly. (3 reviews) - Users praise Lightrun for its **real-time debugging capabilities** , significantly enhancing efficiency and understanding of production flows. (3 reviews) - Issue Detection (3 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users face **numerous bugs and integration issues** with Lightrun's plugins and agents, leading to frustration during debugging. (2 reviews) - Users face **"out of scope" errors** and bugs with plugins, complicating debugging despite quick support responses. (2 reviews) - Users experience **feature limitations** with Lightrun due to bugs and performance issues affecting integration and snapshots. (2 reviews) - Users experience **limited compatibility** with Lightrun due to ongoing bugs and lack of support for more IDEs. (2 reviews) - Users experience **limited features** with Lightrun, particularly due to snapshot performance impacts and IDE support issues. (2 reviews) - Limited Language Support (2 reviews) - Resource Limitations (2 reviews) - Users experience **occasional delays and persistent bugs** , which interrupt workflows and complicate debugging tasks. (2 reviews) - Compatibility Issues (1 reviews) - Users find **complex debugging** in Lightrun frustrating due to "out of scope" issues and a lack of step-by-step debugging. (1 reviews) ## Lightrun Reviews ### 1. Amazing product saved the customer two months of waiting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2025 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** Lightrun is a debugging system that runs directly on the client’s server, with no intervention needed from the client — all in real time! It’s an amazing product, especially for understanding the flow in production using real client data. It makes finding bugs much easier and faster, and because everything happens in real time, it’s incredibly convenient for everyday use. The snapshots are extremely helpful — I can see the data at each step of execution, which makes it much easier to understand what’s happening in real time. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Sometimes I run into “out of scope” issues when adding a debugging condition, and I don’t always understand why. It can be frustrating in the moment, but the Lightrun support team responds so quickly that I can just reach out and get an answer right away. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Lightrun to identify a NullPointerException. At first, I only knew the general area where it was thrown, but not the exact cause. By using Lightrun snapshots, I was able to narrow it down to the specific line where the exception occurred and inspect the object’s state. This revealed that the issue was caused by broken data in the environment. After fixing the data, the custemer was able to work normally again, without needing to wait for a future release. ### 2. Effortless Production Debugging with Root Cause Precision **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ranjit S. **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2026 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** I like how Lightrun helps compare two values, which is crucial for debugging and solving production issues effortlessly. The ability to trace step by step and pinpoint the exact root cause of production data issues is invaluable. Additionally, the initial setup of Lightrun is easy, which is a big plus for me. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Nothing everything looks good and solve our production debugging problem with more features **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Lightrun for production debugging, tracing step by step to debug production issues and find the exact root cause. ### 3. Efficient Debugging with Snapshot Insights **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankush R. **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2026 **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. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** P955/P99 metrics **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. ### 4. Lightrun's Real-time Debugging: Changing the Game for Developers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roi B. | R&D Team Leader at Migdal Group , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2024 **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. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** The only "complaint" I have is lack of support of more IDE's like ecplise. **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. ### 5. Lightrun: A tool for Development Observability **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2025 **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 **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. **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. ### 6. A must have tool that saved hours of debugging! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2025 **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. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Sometimes features are limitied because snapshots can affect the app performance. **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. ### 7. Helped me with debugging my environment production **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** shanir f. | Backend Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2025 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** The ability, to do snapshot during a run **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** The disability to evaluate different expressions while taking a snapshot **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. ### 8. Great tool to debug issues on the fly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2024 **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. **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. **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. ### 9. Lithrun helps you solve bugs when you think you've hit a dead end. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2024 **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. **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. **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. ### 10. Lightrun helped me when we were doing a core upgrade and I had to debug something in production **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manish S. | Pre-Sales Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2024 **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. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** The amount of information a snapshot it provides. **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. ### 11. Best production ready observability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yuval Z. | Java Backend Tech Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** Best production ready applicat for observability at runtime **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** When taking a snapshot the full stack trace is not shown **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bug tracking in production ### 12. A tool not just for developers, but for test automation engineers as well **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2023 **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. **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. **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. ### 13. Live Debugging on Production made easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hardik K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2023 **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. **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. **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. ### 14. Debugging on a live environment! It can't get better than this! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chinmay A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** 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. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** 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! **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** I personally use lightrun for tracking difficult to track bugs that only happen on production or some other environment and would be pain to reproduce on local environemnt as many of other microservices or data patterns would have to be replicated. Lightrun is an extremely quick way to achieve what would take hours before! ### 15. Helped me solve debug **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Menachem F. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** solves production bugs that are not reproducable localy great support ease of use **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** needs to be instaled on every enviprment and agent **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helped me solve a bug that was not reproducible locally ### 16. Lightrun: A Powerful Solution for Debugging Complex Service Interactions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** 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. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** the only option is to log the data, I would like somehow to debug it step by step. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our service connects to another service through five services, making it challenging to load everything locally. To troubleshoot this, I integrated Lightrun with IntelliJ and utilized snapshots to pinpoint the problem. ### 17. The best debugging tool that market has to offer for developers.!!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashutosh S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** 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. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** 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! **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lightrun allows me to create a virtual breakpoint and capture a snapshot anywhere in my code. With this I get a full understanding of how my code is behaving eventually allowing me to understand what I am doing wrong or to identify a bug. This saves a lot of time as I dont have to add logs in the code and check everytime. ### 18. Lightrun is a great tool for troubleshooting and debugging production issues! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis Antonio L. | Technology Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** 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. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** 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! **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bugs and defects mostly, right now. But I'm looking forward to test the vulnerability and cloud features of Lightrun. ### 19. Lightrun is a valuable tool with a somewhat steep learning curve **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **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 **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 **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 ### 20. A great product that decreases invesigation time on issues **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dror H. | Software team lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** 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. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Plug ins to the IDE can be a little difficult to use from time to time **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring issues on the fly, being able to debug directly on production or testing environment without needing to recreate the issue prescisely ### 21. Really powerful **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** 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. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** accasional delays and small bugs that interrups workflows **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** User specific bugs that are really hard to replicate ### 22. Shift observability left and de-risk early! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** 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. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** 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. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Debugging critical issues at run-time, empowering our developers to observe complex and cloud native workloads on demand. It also compliments our APM tool stack ### 23. Lightrun - the tool that developers and ops teams have been looking for **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brooke H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** The ability to dynamically inspect variable values and performance in real-time while troubleshooting an application in production. While we all work very hard to create our unit and functional tests, some situations have not been anticipated. In these circumstances, nothing beats being able to do what LightRun can do. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** The one challenge I have run into is how I deployed the agent. On traditional VMs, it would have been wiser to deploy the Instana code with the application instead of in a central location - or to have a configurable way to select the deployment location and have multiple locations on the VMs. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping solve the problem of performance and bug issues in applications in production and pre-production environments. ### 24. Lightrun a tool for quick debug snapshots and code metrics **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prashant M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2023 **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 **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 **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 ### 25. Good tool for debugging applications without much overhead **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danesh Q. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** One of the best thing I loved about Lightrun is that the setup time is very minimal and then developers have full flexibility to take snapshots of heap or logs at any line of the code. This helps us move into a new direction of development wherein devs dont bother about putting a log statement just for debugging, which would often need a redeploy if log statements were missing. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Nothing to dislike as such. If I have to think about a point then I feel the UI of IntelliJ plugin can be more intuitive. There is only a slight learning curve **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helped me debug production issues by taking snapshot of the Heap ### 26. Life before and after Lightrun **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alon H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** It's powerful. Lightrun can be used to debug and profile frontend applications in real time, without the need to deploy your code to a staging or production environment. This can save you a lot of time and frustration when trying to track down bugs. It's easy to use. Once you get the hang of it, Lightrun is very easy to use. You can add breakpoints, inspect variables, and even step through your code, all without leaving your browser. It's constantly being improved. The Lightrun team is constantly adding new features and fixing bugs. This means that Lightrun is only going to get better over time. Overall, I think Lightrun is a great tool for debugging and profiling frontend applications. It's powerful, easy to use, and constantly being improved. However, it's important to be aware of its limitations, such as the fact that it can be difficult to get started and that it can add some overhead to your application. If you're looking for a simple and easy-to-use debugging tool, Lightrun might not be the best option for you. However, if you're willing to put in the time to learn how to use it, Lightrun can be a powerful tool for improving the quality of your frontend code. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Nothing to dislike about Lightrun. Lightrun is a powerful and innovative tool for debugging and profiling frontend applications. The company is constantly improving the product and documentation, which can sometimes create operational challenges for us. However, Lightrun support is always quick to help and resolve any issues. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lightrun is a powerful tool that helps me to debug and profile my frontend code in real time. This has saved me a lot of time and frustration, and it has made me a better frontend developer. I would recommend Lightrun to any frontend developer who is looking for a powerful and effective debugging tool. ### 27. Tried it on my a side project, very convenient **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eylon B. | Software Engineering Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** They offer free trial, so I could easily set it up on my project and see if it actually fits. Many of the other solutions require to pay upfront. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** I think that the UI could be better. I guess it's a matter of taste but it would be nice if I could customize a personal theme. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lightrun allows debugging production code quite easily. The setup is fairly simple and it saves a lot of unnecessary, expensive logs. ### 28. Lightrun is a huge timesaver when you need to understand complex code and debug an issue. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** I like that it helps me know which code flows are really used, espically the sanpshot feature which allows me to look at the call stack. The tool helps me validate my hypotisis when something goes wrong. We also have a Slack channel with Lightrun support which are super responsive and helpful. It's a valubale tool, easy to use, that I use very frequently. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Conditional breakpoints doesn't always work due to the fact that it might hurt production performence. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** I like that it helps me know which code flows are really used, espically the sanpshot feature which allows me to look at the call stack. The tool helps me validate my hypotheses when something goes wrong. ### 29. Live application debugging: a helpful tool to build an effective developer platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** As a consultant, I've seen the ins and outs of countless developer tools across various companies. Best practices and good tools exist, but they generally need to be planned in advance and often require a sizable dedicated team to manage (and sometimes use...) Lightrun has made my job of helping teams easier. In my case, I've implemented Ligthrun to debug Kubernetes applications. For developers, the whole Kubernetes debugging process becomes more accessible, even when Kubernetes skills are not across-the-board in the team. Instead of messing around with complex setups, they can dive right into the app, throwing in logs, metrics, and traces on-the-fly. It's basically a debugger that works on remote live applications, including in production, and it works well in a container environment. And let's not forget the operation teams. The on-demand logging is especially useful especially when considering the budget (both licensing and storage) to host logging applications. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** As far as the programming language you're using is supported, nothing to dislike. Go support would be helpful. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing developer teams with an effective obsersability tools into live applications ### 30. Lightrun: Save Time, Reduce Friction, and Increase Output **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** Lightrun stands out for its rapid troubleshooting capabilities, allowing us to resolve complex database issues quickly, bypassing the need for extensive data replication. Its seamless integration with VS Code and user-friendly debugging features enhance its utility in development environments. The responsive customer support through Slack is a significant advantage, offering immediate assistance without the usual delays of traditional ticketing systems. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** While the VS Code extension could benefit from minor UI improvements, the overall experience is greatly enhanced by the supportive and receptive Lightrun team, who are committed to continuous improvement based on user feedback. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real-time debugging of our production environments. Optimizing performance across our applications. ### 31. Great futuristic tool for developers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arjun N. | Data Engineering Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** Lightrun is a fantastic and dynamic tool to have live debuging session without having any impact on live environment. It has great capabilities to add logs, snapshots and debugger session to any live running environment without any code change or redeployment required. Also it is light weight so add negligible overhead on the application infrastructure. Loved the tool. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Not exactly a dislike but would like tool to have capabilities to have better retention of the captured logs and snapshots. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lightrun has great capability of identifying the actual impact of CVEs on the application by determining the usage of the impacted libraries by the application, this would be great help in priotising the work list of impacting CVEs. ### 32. It is fastest way to debug log on prod issue **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayankkumar P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** Log and snashot are best i have ever use to debug any issue from light run. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** It has limited to line level specific veriable scope to snapshot object details, It would be nice if it is at class or method level **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solve problem of logs details where logs are on debug mode disabled in prod enviroment. ### 33. Real-time debugging is the future of debugging **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** Adding Lightrun actions is straightforward just like a local breakpoint is working, but remotely. It is very simple to add a snapshot and a log directly within my code I am using Scala and for me, debugging without the need to recompile and redeploy my code, is a great time saver. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Using the “evaluate” field sometimes not working for me. I assume I’m not using it correctly. I sometimes get the following error: “Invalid expression syntax” **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Production bugs that I can easily debug and fix. This tool has changed my entire debugging workflow. ### 34. Save time and Reduce frustration with this tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Omer B. | Senior Web Developer and Tech Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** Being a web developer I was frustrated by bugs which reproduced only in production env and were nowhere to be found in development env. By using lightrun to debug production env I was able to reduce time and tons of e-mails with requests for specifics about how to reproduce the bugs. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Nothing stands out for now, but I've been using it for a short time. I haven't used other tools like it in the past, so this is my only experience. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can debug my code in production and it reduces a lot of time needed to reproduce issues in dev environment which is not always the same as production and may not show me the issue. ### 35. Lightrun and in complex production environments **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **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🙏🏼 **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 **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 ### 36. Efficient Cloud-Native Debugging with Lightrun: Seamlessly Debug Your Java Apps in IntelliJ IDE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Asaf S. | Vice President Of Product Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** Lightrun has changed the way I approach debugging for my cloud-native applications. The ability to debug during runtime, directly from my preferred integrated development environment (IDE), has been a game-changer in my development workflow. The seamless integration of Lightrun with my IntelliJ IDE has been a boon. Gone are the days of having to rely solely on post-mortem analysis or setting up elaborate debugging environments. With Lightrun, I can now put breakpoints, inspect variables, and step through my code as it's actually running, all without disrupting the application's flow. This dynamic approach to debugging has been instrumental in identifying and resolving issues that might have been elusive otherwise. One of the most significant advantages of using Lightrun is the speed at which I can address problems. By being able to debug directly from my IDE, I can quickly pinpoint the root cause of issues and make necessary corrections without the need for time-consuming back-and-forths between code and debugger interfaces. This has had a tangible impact on my productivity and has allowed me to allocate more time to actual development tasks rather than wrestling with debugging complexities. Moreover, Lightrun aligns perfectly with the fast-paced nature of modern development. It not only accelerates issue resolution but also empowers me to experiment and iterate more effectively. This is particularly vital in a cloud-native environment where changes need to be implemented swiftly to meet evolving requirements. In conclusion, Lightrun's ability to facilitate real-time debugging from within my IntelliJ IDE has elevated the quality and speed of my development activities. It's a tool that has brought efficiency, precision, and agility to my Java development process, allowing me to build and refine cloud-native applications with greater confidence and swiftness. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** I'll be happy to see the solution grows and cover more technologies, it certainly on the right path **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real time debugging ### 37. Game Changer for software tester **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joe L. | Director, UAT Canada , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** Lightrun has been a game-changer for me as a tester, addressing a critical pain point that many of us encounter: the challenge of debugging production-specific bugs. Lightrun's standout feature is its direct integration into the production environment. This capability eliminates the need for back-and-forth emails and replication requests. As a tester, I can now swiftly identify issues, evaluate variables, and scrutinize expressions in real-time, all while the system functions seamlessly. In my short time using Lightrun, I'm yet to uncover significant drawbacks. This tool has streamlined my workflow, providing efficient solutions for debugging, especially considering testers' need for access to production environments, which can be a hurdle in some organizations. Lightrun addresses a vital concern for testers: the ability to debug in production. This eliminates the time-consuming process of recreating issues in development environments that might differ significantly. With Lightrun, I can now provide more accurate insights to the development team, enhancing collaboration and efficiency. In conclusion, Lightrun's real-time debugging capabilities have transformed how I tackle production-specific bugs. Its integration into the production environment is a testament to its value, significantly enhancing my testing process and effectiveness **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Lightrun's real-time debugging capabilities have transformed how I tackle production-specific bugs. Its integration into the production environment is a testament to its value, significantly enhancing my testing process and effectiveness **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a tester, I can now swiftly identify issues, evaluate variables, and scrutinize expressions in real-time, all while the system functions seamlessly. ### 38. Necessary tool for production support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** thomas h. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** The tool is user friendly. It contains the features necessary for us to perform appopriate failure analysis. Our prior state (and current state for many teams) involves cobbling together from various sources and using individuals as oracles for past failures. Lightrun makes it easier to doo root cause analysis. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Nothing about Lightrun the tool. I would love to see some industry recognized certifications on the tool with additional "university" courses from the vendor, so as I recruit I can have more confidence in an individuals ability. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Don't need to reproduce the prod environment to perform root cause analysis on incidents. Ability to pinpoint issues so we can take preventive measures. ### 39. A great addition to the developer's toolbox **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Iris C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** Lightrun makes it easy to gain insight into the production environment without going through the tedious process of making changes to the codebase (no PRs, no release pipelines needed). **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** The setup could have been more intuitive but once you get it to work it's great. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ligthrun allows me to gain insight into my services running in production without having to make changes to the codebase which is a great timesaver. It offers anything I need to examin things live, making it easier to detect issues early on and fix them faster than with traditional tools. ### 40. A time saving tool for real-time debugging and dynamic observability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aymen E. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** The ability to add logs, and metrics to a running application without requiring restarts or redeployment is extremely helpful. The integration is also simple and straightforward. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** No complaints. Thus far in my use of Lightrun, I haven't encountered any specific problems **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lightrun addresses the challenges of real-time debugging and dynamic observability in applications that are already running - in other words, by adding logs, metrics, and traces in real-time and on-demand, teams can achieve significant time savings and increase efficiency. This can improve metrics such as Mean Time to Detection and Mean Time to Recovery. ### 41. Working with Lightrun is cool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Idan S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** - It supports typescript! - I can easily add logs and snapshots to a running code in production without the need to wait for a deployment to run. this is a major advantage if I need to understand what's going on in real-time. - I don't need to replicate the production environment in my local machine. I can work directly on production. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** - no support in GO which is unfortunate. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't need to spend time recreating an environment with the archituecture as in production, I can simply add logs and snapshots to a running code and get to the bottom of raised issues rather quick ### 42. Using LIghtrun to debug, identify and solve issues in production **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Or A. | R&D Group Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** 1. Reduce a lot of time and effort to debug issues in distributed production Environment. 2. Very easy-to-use, clear, and simple user interface. 3. Bring varieties of options such as trace printing and console.logs 4. Great user interface, integrated into the vscode as an extension. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Generally, to tool is excellent, We can always improve the way of manage agents/ instances from the app/ website management dashboard and manage the tool more at the user level and not the account level. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before using Lightrun, the procedure for investigating and debugging stuff in production environment was complex. With light run we not depend on technical knowledge and reduce the time for actually debugging the system and find issues root causes. ### 43. Very Helpful for debug in production env **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sharon B. | backend developer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** We have been using Lightrun for several years now and the tool is a tremendous time saver. it is almost as good as running IDE debugger attached to production env. The ability to print log conditionally is especailly useful. Also, the guys over at Lightrun are very responsive for questions and comments. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** the compiler that Lighgtrun uses is not as powerful as the one from the JDK so you need to learn its eccentricities. for example, it does not do autoboxing so you cannot compare Integer object to number literal like you would do in your source code. you have to explicitly convert the object to primitive value (intValue()) The guys at Lightrun have improved the user experience of the tool with every new release, and there is still way to go. there are little QoL improvements that can help in picking tags of server instances, managing multiuple log files and snapahots. Also, I can see many places where AI would be very helpful: creating log condiitons and expressions, duplicating log msgs, "linking" log msgs at begining and exit of method, auto expiration of logs and snapshots ... **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** We devs all have encountered cases where an error is only reproducible in production. For example, integration with an external system that requires credentials of user that are (of course) unavailable. So I examine production log files and I can identify the area where the cause of the error might reside, but I need more data than is presented in the log files. sometimes I need to understand how a specific if statement is resolved or what is the data that was just fetched from DB. in the past, we had to fork master branch, add the necessary log msgs and deploy to a separate production env and recreate the error. this was an iterative process that was very time consuming and error prone. with Lightrun, I can add log msgs and snapshots of data structures on-the-fly. We have also used lightrun to do performance testing on env that is replica of production. ### 44. Excellent and cost efficient observability solution for developers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amir R. | Sr. Director, Product Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** Lightrun enables me to debug my distributed app on AWS EKS during runtime from my IDE With lightrun I can troubleshoot my application directly from my development environment and reduce my MTTR so I can advance with my development activities. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Nothing to dislike. Just continue to grow and add great features. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can control the level of logging in real time as needed, allowing be to be efficient both in terms of time spent going through logs and $ spent. But when I need extended logging, I have it. ### 45. One of the best debugging tools I’ve ever tried **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** Using Lightrun has completely changed how I approach debugging. The live debugging feature is a game-changer! Making tweaks to my code in real time without the hassle of redeployment has saved me countless hours of frustration. It's made my debugging process incredibly efficient and straightforward. I highly recommend Lightrun to any developer looking for a seamless debugging experience! **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** No Go / Ruby support, and it's a shame that the metrics don't work in Node. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lightrun's real-time code insights without redeployment are a game-changer for me. It's a time-saver, letting me make live code changes and giving instant application insights, making my development process incredibly smooth! ### 46. Debugging on production without risk **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suvish T. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** Ease of use, very similar to setting a breakpoint locally using your IDE. Care is taken to not break things accidentally on production. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Support for certain langauges and platforms are pending (for e.g. Golang) **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing us to debug unique issues on production (and other environments) without needing to painstakingly replicate the setup on local. This saves a lot fo time and improves our MTTR (Mean TIme To Resolution) ### 47. Friendly Dev Environment: Loved Every feature offered **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guruswamy B. | Principal Technical Account Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** 1. Easy integration with IDE 2. The ability to add logs and metrics without redeployment 3. Support for Multiple Languages like Java and Python 4. Quick customer support **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Extensions can be bit better with minor UI fixes and elaborated error details **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** increase development velocity without compromising quality and performance of the product ### 48. Lightrun has been an invaluable addition to my toolkit **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** The user interface is intuitive and user-friendly The ability to insert logs on-the-fly without redeploying or restarting has saved us countless hours Minimize disruption to our workflow **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** integration with certain frameworks or languages **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** in log monitoring, Lightrun revolutionizes our approach by offering real-time insights into our codebase. It allows us to insert logs dynamically without restarting or redeploying applications. Lightrun seamlessly integrates into our development environments, enhancing our Python debugging capabilities. The tool's live debugging features empower us to conduct on-the-fly inspections. ### 49. A very good debugging tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** We've been testing this product for several weeks now and it is being loved by our developers. It helps productivity by allowing better debugging on our code base. **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** So fae, can't find negative points. The team is helpful with every issue we face **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing faster and better production debugging capabilities ### 50. Lightrun significantly reduced our MTTR **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shani S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Lightrun?** Lightrun’s platform allows my developers to connect to the live app deployments and troubleshoot complex issues and outages directly from their VSCode IDE and by that we’re always quick to respond to defects **What do you dislike about Lightrun?** Support for additional languages and IDEs would always be nice but for the most part it covers my needs. **What problems is Lightrun solving and how is that benefiting you?** investigating and debugging stuff in production ## Lightrun Discussions - [What is Lightrun used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-lightrun-used-for) - 5 upvotes - [View Lightrun pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/lightrun-lightrun/reviews?source=search§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-19+13%3A00%3A42+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e2f8f20f-1213-4573-9c67-3dc5f8d74f00&secure%5Btoken%5D=08eb3e247c29ed295a935c085994dceee2b289837a095167a1d528c1994ded88&format=llm_user) ## Lightrun Features **Operations** - 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