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Users commend the ease of use of Lightrun, appreciating its seamless integration and intuitive functionality. (20 mentions)
Users value Lightrun for its efficient debugging capabilities, revolutionizing real-time issue resolution in production environments. (17 mentions)
Users praise Lightrun's real-time debugging tools, enhancing efficiency and streamlining the debugging of production issues. (12 mentions)
Users value the excellent customer support from Lightrun, assisting with implementation and ongoing issues effectively. (9 mentions)
Users find Lightrun's interface to be intuitive, making debugging in production effortless and efficient. (9 mentions)
Users struggle with error handling in Lightrun, finding it hard to diagnose issues from error messages. (5 mentions)
Users note the limited features, especially regarding variable scope and support for additional IDEs. (5 mentions)
Users suggest there are issues with poor UI design, impacting usability and requiring significant improvements. (5 mentions)
Users suggest that UI improvements are needed for easier navigation and enhanced customization options. (5 mentions)
Users desire more limited customization options in Lightrun's UI to enhance personalization and user experience. (4 mentions)

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Lightrun Pros and Cons

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Amir R.
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Sr. Director, Product Management
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

Nothing to dislike. Just continue to grow and add great features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
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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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

No Go / Ruby support, and it's a shame that the metrics don't work in Node. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Suvish T.
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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

Support for certain langauges and platforms are pending (for e.g. Golang) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Guruswamy B.
GB
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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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

Extensions can be bit better with minor UI fixes and elaborated error details Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

integration with certain frameworks or languages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

So fae, can't find negative points. The team is helpful with every issue we face Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SS
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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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NV
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

Does great for tracking and troubleshooting. Also - very good post sales team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

I am still new with the tool so I can say only good things for the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pavel B.
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Backend Team Lead
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

Lightrun live debugging is magic. It's so easy to troubleshoot bugs with it. And I can do that without leaving my favorite VSCode. Also it's very simple to start off, it takes couple of lines in our node.js code to set it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

No downsides, this is very robust solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lightrun?

1) Helps to easily troubleshoot remote and distributed apps in production and it saves several hours/ days to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues.

2) Since it is part of the IDE it makes our developers lives easy to use during development as well as debugging workflows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

Provide more online tutorials and guides Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.