On-Demand Snapshots

Lightrun enables developers to add snapshots – a kind of virtual breakpoint – to live applications without needing to restart, redeploy or even stop the live application.

Instead, all Lightrun Snapshots:

 

• Can be added to multiple applications, simultaneously
• Can be added based on a variety of code-level conditions
• Can be added pre-execution and triggered when the code is invoked
• Are safe, read-only, and performant
• Debug across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, serverless, on-prem and more

 

Lightrun Snapshots do not break the application, resulting in a familiar (yet slightly different) debugger-like experience.

Instead of stopping the execution at each breakpoint, when an execution hits a Lightrun Snapshot it does not stop but continues, allowing the next execution to also hit the snapshot right after it.

In that way, snapshots can be compared and contrasted to show the change over time in variables and data structures.

 

Each Lightrun Action is invoked when the specific location in the code is reached during execution.

This means that developers can be alerted when a specific section of code runs, offering a deeper level of connection to the running application than any other comparable tool.

 

Lightrun works completely within the IDE, allowing you to ‘pop the hood’ of your application right next to its source code.

Every single Lightrun Snapshot is added from the IDE and instrumented in real-time in your live applications. Once it’s instrumented, it can be viewed in your IDE or shared using one of our various integrations.