Launched January 24, 2023
Lightrun
Connecting developers to their live applications
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Lightrun is a developer-centric observability platform. By securely adding logs, metrics, and traces in real time and on demand, Lightrun empowers you to observe and troubleshoot your running application code. No hotfixes, restarts, or redeployment are required.
Lightrun adds live logs, metrics and traces to running code for real-time observability and AI-agent troubleshooting.
- for
- Support, SRE, platform engineering and developers needing live runtime context.
- pricing
- freemium
works withSlackGitHubBitbucketJiraServiceNowAzure DevOpsIntelliJPyCharmVS CodeSAPOracleSalesforce
Key features
8 features of Lightrun
- Live runtime evidence — Collect logs, metrics, traces and dumps from code without redeploying.
- AI-driven investigation — Conversational assistant triages incidents and suggests remediations.
- Multi-instance debugging — Debug Kubernetes, serverless and other instances in real time.
- IDE integrations — Plugins for IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, VS Code and other editors.
- Enterprise system connectors — Integrates with SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps and more.
- Role-based access & SSO — RBAC, SSO, SCIM and SAML support for secure team collaboration.
- Audit & compliance — Full audit logs, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA aligned security.
- Custom connector setup — Unlimited APM, telemetry and third-party integrations via custom connectors.
Use cases
- Investigate production incidents without restarting services.
- Provide AI agents with full operational context to automate remediation.
- Debug multi-instance Kubernetes workloads in real time.
- Correlate data from enterprise systems (SAP, ServiceNow) to reduce MTTR.
Lightrun vs alternatives
 Lightrun |  Datadog |  Grafana |  Sentry.io |  SigNoz | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Live observability for enterprise applications | Monitoring & security platform | Dashboard & visualization | Error tracking | OpenTelemetry observability |
| Pricing | Freemium | Subscription | Subscription | Subscription | Free |
| DevHunt upvotes | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Launched | Jan 2023 | — | — | — | — |
- Lightrun vs Datadog: Datadog focuses on monitoring and security dashboards, while Lightrun adds live code-level context without redeployment.
- Lightrun vs Grafana: Grafana is an open-source dashboarding tool; Lightrun provides AI-driven incident investigation and runtime debugging.
- Lightrun vs Sentry.io: Sentry tracks errors and performance; Lightrun adds live logs, metrics and AI agents for proactive remediation.
- Lightrun vs SigNoz: SigNoz offers open-source OpenTelemetry observability, whereas Lightrun delivers enterprise-grade AI agents and custom connectors.
Lightrun FAQ
Do I need to redeploy my application to add observability?+
No, Lightrun injects logs, metrics and traces at runtime without hot-fixes or restarts.
What security certifications does Lightrun have?+
Lightrun is ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified and aligns with GDPR and HIPAA.
Can I control which actions AI agents can perform?+
Yes, actions are read-only by default and write actions require explicit approval via approval gates.
Is on-premise deployment available?+
Enterprise plans include on-premise deployment options.
What IDEs are supported for runtime debugging?+
Lightrun provides plugins for IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm and VS Code.
Summarized by DevHunt from lightrun.com · Oct 8, 2026. Details may change; check the official site.
