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Lightrun Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages

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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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EC
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

Integrated with IntelliJ. Has an on-prem option. Secure architecture. Has a good support team. Does not affect the underlying service operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

The UI and usability can be improved. The on-prem still has disadvantages vs. the cloud in the day-to-day operation, support, stability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yan D.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

Easily debug your code in production without redeployment, add logs at any point, get to any of your pods, take as many snapsots as you like and review the whole picture Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

Not always easy to find the right pod, even using tags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eran K.
EK
Chief Evangelist Perfecto,BlazeMeter,Author,Sr. Dir. Product Marketing,Perforce
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

A non-intrusive solution, helps reduce MTTR of issues, and injects performance and profiling monitors to enhance overall product performance, reliability and quality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

Add more IDEs support in the future like Xcode and other environments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shir M.
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Software Engineering Intern at Google
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Lightrun?

Great tool for faster incident resolution and real-time debugging without needing to add new code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightrun?

I would love if they could create a collaborative add on to share in between teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.