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Israeli startup Lightrun has developed a continuous debugging and observability platform. The company has closed a $23 million Series A round led by Insight Partners with participation from existing investor Glilot Capital Partners, bringing its total funding to $27 million.
Founded in 2019 by CEO Ilan Peleg and CTO Leonid Blouvsh, Lightrun is the first complete continuous debugging and observability platform. Lightrun says that it allows developers to easily and securely add logs, performance metrics and traces to production and staging environments in real-time and on-demand. “By enabling developers to gather data from the app in real-time,” it states, “developers and I&O leaders gain 100% code-level observability and faster resolution of production issues. Lightrun also boasts that it replaces the iterative, non-agile process required today for debugging applications.
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“We’ve seen a number of observability solutions joining the market, but found Lightrun’s shift-left approach to be truly unique,” said Teddie Wardi, Managing Director at Insight Partners, who will join the board of directors. “The main point of shifting observability to the left in the software development lifecycle is incorporating observability into the day-to-day developer workflow. Lightrun makes observability ops-free, real-time and ergonomic to the development process, and we believe they are in a position to capture a large international market of development teams at enterprises that prioritize rapid feature development and frequent shipping.”
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In April, Lightrun launched a free community edition of its popular platform for developer-native observability. Earlier this month, Lightrun was named a Gartner Cool Vendor for Monitoring, Observability and Cloud Operations. The company has doubled its number of employees in the last year and it recently announced numerous new integrations supported by the APM product ecosystem, including Datadog, IntelliJ IDEA, Logz.io, Prometheus, Slack and StatsD.
“For too long, developers have been forced to use traditional APM and observability tools that were designed for operators and IT, and correlating data on the ‘right,'” said Ilan Peleg, Co-founder and CEO of Lightrun. “We’re already seeing operations and security shifting left as startups like Snyk and Hashicorp disrupt those spaces. Now, Lightrun is flipping the paradigm of observability, putting the tooling in the hands of developers, and giving developers new observability into live applications’ state, rather than the ‘static,’ log-everything legacy approach to software debugging.”
“We’ve seen a number of observability solutions joining the market, but found Lightrun’s shift-left approach to be truly unique,” said Teddie Wardi, Managing Director at Insight Partners, who will join the board of directors. “The main point of shifting observability to the left in the software development lifecycle is incorporating observability into the day-to-day developer workflow. Lightrun makes observability ops-free, real-time and ergonomic to the development process, and we believe they are in a position to capture a large international market of development teams at enterprises that prioritize rapid feature development and frequent shipping.”
