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Lightrun Launches Free Debugger For Developer-Native ObservabilityLightrun, the continuous debugging and observability company, today announced the release of a free, self-service version of its popular debugging solution for developers. Lightrun Cloud is not only the most powerful debugger a developer can use to troubleshoot production applications live from within the IntelliJ IDE - but also the easiest to set-up, with a complete self-service experience that gets developers up and running in less than five minutes. Self-Service Debugger Deploys in Less than Five Minutes Lightrun specializes in giving developers observability into running code, and pinpointing specific issues directly within the IDEs and CLIs they already use. Lightrun Cloud is optimized for debugging modern application architectures like containers, microservices and serverless, where the degree of difficulty is very high for pinpointing and reproducing bugs in production, as services and instances run across more than one machine. The dozens of organizations and development teams that have adopted Lightrun tend to be heavy users of Docker and Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Tomcat, Jetty, microservices frameworks like MicroProfile and Quarkus, and popular frameworks in big data and stream processing, such as Apache Spark and Apache Flink. "Distributed frameworks are the cornerstone of the most interesting cloud-native development use cases today, but all of these frameworks also carry their own complexities and opportunities for user error," said Ilan Peleg, co-founder and CEO of Lightrun. "Lightrun is particularly popular with developer teams that are shipping frequently, embracing failure, and who need the fastest possible way to identify and fix bugs in production. Lightrun Cloud is a free SaaS (News - Alert) offering that gives developers the easiest way to isolate bugs in running production systems -- everything from logic bugs based on developer error, to system related bugs based on cluster deployment and configuration. These are the types of bugs that are extremely difficult to find, but increasingly common while orchestrating these complex distributed systems." "Lightrun has been a game-changer for us," said Rami Stern, R&D infrastructure team leader at Taboola, the top content discovery platform worldwide, whose ads reach more than 44 percent of the total Internet population every day. "With Lightrun we shortened our development process significantly by skipping iterative deployment cycles when adding logs and metrics. A day's work turned into just one hour. Lightrun provided us with new observability into our production environment that was not accessible to us beforehand. Lightrun is a key component in our eveloper toolset here at Taboola and one of our development best practices." Logs, Snapshots and Metrics in Live Production Code "Shift Left" to the IDE Historically, observability into production applications relies on the paradigm of collecting massive volumes of logs, storing those logs, then analyzing them through application performance monitoring tools (APM (News - Alert)), like New Relic, Splunk and other popular tooling. Lightrun Cloud inverts the model -- instead of logging everything and working backwards, the platform gives developers "shift left" observability from within the tooling they already use (IDEs, CLIs, VCS), and the ability to add log lines to running applications. This new paradigm allows developers to own debugging within the software development lifecycle, reducing the time to discovery and reproduction of bugs, and significantly cutting operational and observability costs.
Product Availability Lightrun Cloud is available at https://lightrun.com Supporting Resources About Lightrun Lightrun is a Tel Aviv-based startup that is transforming the developer experience, bringing a developer-native observability platform. The company is the first to bring "shift left" observability, giving developers deeper insights into running applications by allowing them to insert logs, metrics and traces and more during runtime. Boasting the richest set of observability pillar tools for observing applications directly from within the IDE, Lightrun simplifies every aspect of incident resolution. Lightrun is ISO-27001 certified and is proud to have some of the most innovative technology companies in the world as customers, including Taboola, Sisense, Tufin and more.
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