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New Feature: Automatic Snapshots When Latency Spikes
We’ve released an exciting new Lightrun capability: set a duration threshold on your Tic & Toc or Method Duration metrics, and Lightrun will automatically capture a snapshot whenever...
Why AI Observability Isn’t Enough for Coding Agents
Observability platforms collect pre-instrumented logs, metrics, and distributed traces to monitor production systems and surface...
Why CI/CD Pipelines Miss Runtime Failures
CI/CD pipelines do four things: it builds code, runs tests against mocked dependencies, lints for style violations, and scans for known vulnerability patterns. What it cannot do is...
Kubernetes Monitoring: Datadog Alert to Lightrun Root Cause
Datadog Kubernetes monitoring tells an SRE team what failed, which pod failed, and when. It...
Why Deterministic AI Engineering Requires Runtime Truth
AI-led engineering runs on probability. That accelerates development, but introduces a reliability cost that is...
Why Your Agentic Workflow Succeeds and Still Gets It Wrong
Agentic workflows are reshaping how engineering teams operate, fetching context, synthesizing decisions, and shipping results...