Lightrun Reviews (67)

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Lightrun Reviews (67)

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Users consistently praise Lightrun for its ease of use and real-time debugging capabilities, which significantly streamline the debugging process in production environments. The ability to capture snapshots and logs without redeploying code is particularly valued, allowing developers to quickly identify and resolve issues. However, some users note limitations with UI improvements and support for additional programming languages.

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Verified User in Program Development
UP
Verified User in Program Development
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Amazing product saved the customer two months of waiting"
5/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ranjit S.
RS
Ranjit S.
"Effortless Production Debugging with Root Cause Precision"
4.5/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

Nothing everything looks good and solve our production debugging problem with more features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ankush R.
AR
Ankush R.
"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.

Roi B.
RB
Roi B.
R&D Team Leader at Migdal Group
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Lightrun's Real-time Debugging: Changing the Game for Developers"
5/5
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.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.

Verified User in Internet
UI
Verified User in Internet
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"A must have tool that saved hours of debugging!"
5/5
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.

shanir f.
SF
shanir f.
Backend Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Helped me with debugging my environment production"
4.5/5
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.

Verified User in Industrial Automation
UI
Verified User in Industrial Automation
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great tool to debug issues on the fly"
5/5
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.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Lithrun helps you solve bugs when you think you've hit a dead end."
5/5
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.

MS
Manish S.
Pre-Sales Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Lightrun helped me when we were doing a core upgrade and I had to debug something in production"
5/5
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.