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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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What do you like best about Lightrun?

The way we connect to the customer in production mode Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

The account login can be easier and maybe approve the UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PZ
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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.

Gal S.
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

For years, I've been deploying and redeploying—it was the only solution I knew. Then LightRun came along and transformed my experience. Remote debugging became incredibly easy and saved me so much time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

I would be happy if the setup process would be a bit easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lightrun?

I am highly impressed with the seamless live debugging experience that Lightrun offers in production environments. The standout feature for me is its ability to effortlessly ingest logs within our codebase through its agents, enhancing our capability to troubleshoot issues in real-time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

need some improment in UI

improve in more docs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lightrun?

I like the ability to see problems as they occur with code. Most developers do not code with quality and performance in mind. This product helps them keep that in mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

There is not much to dislike, except that everyone isn't using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lior K.
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

Platform is very robust, seems like there is strong understanding with regards to market needs around runtime debugging and bringing high ROI to rev teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

Cannot state at this phase, seems like for now tool is serving the needs just fine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christopher K.
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

Lightrun allows me to easily troubleshoot my cloud native applications directly from my IntelliJ IDE in Java and in runtime, that allows me and my team to reduce the time it takes us to solve production issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

No complaints, everything works as expected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rotem B.
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

Instead of developing new code, new release to production, adding logs, and a hard debug, it is easy to debug in current version and find our bug. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

Helpful tool, might be event greater with option to share inside the org Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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EC
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

Really easy to implement and provides immediate results. Support team is super helpful and always available. They always go above and beyond to try and resolve issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

didn't find anything that I dislike yet. The UX could be improved, and the docs are sometimes difficult to search/navigate, but these issues were pretty minor compared to the overall experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IF
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

I like it all.

Perfect service and great people Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

Actually nothing special, totally happy with Lightrun Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.