Lightrun’s Product Updates – Q3 2023

Throughout the third quarter of this year, Lightrun continued its efforts to develop a multitude of solutions and improvements focused on enhancing developer productivity. Their primary objectives were to improve troubleshooting for distributed workload applications, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) for complex issues, and optimize costs in the realm of cloud computing.

Read more below the main new features as well as the key product enhancements that were released in Q3 of 2023!

📢 NEW! Lightrun Support for Action Creation Across Multiple Sources !

Lightrun is excited to announce that developers can now select multiple agents and tags as a single source when creating an action directly from their IDEs. This option lets them simultaneously apply an action to a custom group of agents and tags, which improves their plugin experience and makes it easier to debug with multiple agents and tags. To learn more, see selecting multiple sources in VSCode and selecting multiple sources in JetBrains.

📢 New! Enhanced Capability for Capturing High-Value Snapshot Actions

We’ve taken snapshot capturing to the next level by enabling you to now capture large values for Python and Node.js agents. As part of this enhancement, we’ve raised the default settings to accommodate larger string values. You can also define maximum limits in the agent.config file through the introduction of the max_snapshot_buffer_size, max_variable_size, and max_watchlist_variable_size fields. For more information, refer to the relevant Agent documentation: Python Agent Configuration and Node.js Agent Configuration.

📢 NEW! Duplication of Actions from Within the IDE Plugins 🎉

Lightrun now offers an easy and more efficient way to insert Lightrun actions using ‘Copy and Paste’ within your JetBrains IDE, which allows developers to easily reuse existing actions in multiple locations within your code. This new functionality applies to all Lightrun action types, including Lightrun snapshots, metrics, and logs. It simplifies the task of reviving expired actions or duplicating actions which have non-trivial conditions and/or watch expressions.

Similarly, we’ve added a new Duplicate action within the VSCode IDE, which allows developers to easily reuse existing actions in multiple locations within their code. This new functionality applies to all Lightrun action types including Lightrun snapshots, metrics, and logs, simplyfying the task of creating non-trivial conditions and/or watch expressions.

📢 NEW! PII Redaction per Agent Pool 

With the introduction of PII Redaction Templates, Lightrun now supports additional granularity for utilizing PII Redaction effectively. You can either establish a single default PII Redaction template to be applied to all your agents or alternatively create and assign distinct PII Redaction templates for different agent pools. For example, if you would like to apply PII Redaction only on a Production environment and not on Development or Staging.

To help you get started with configuring your PII redaction on Agent Pools, we provide a single Default template on the PII Redaction page which serves as a starting point for creating your templates. Note that it does not contain any predefined patterns and is not assigned to any agent pools. For more information, see Assigning PII Redaction templates to Agent Pools.

Feel free to visit Lightrun’s website to learn more or if you’re a newcomer, try it for free!