Lightrun
Lightrun is an Israel-based developer observability and AI SRE platform that enables enterprise engineering teams to dynamically instrument live production environments and ground AI coding agents in real runtime context for autonomous incident detection, root-cause analysis, and remediation.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2019
- HeadquartersTel Aviv, Israel
- Headcount51–100
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What Lightrun does
Lightrun is an Israel-based, venture-backed developer observability and AI SRE platform that enables engineering teams to dynamically pull logs, traces, metrics, and snapshots from live production environments without redeployments, using a sandboxed, SDK-based Runtime Context engine. Its product portfolio spans the Lightrun Runtime Sensor and Runtime Context MCP (the foundation that exposes live production state to AI coding agents and AI SREs), the flagship Lightrun AI SRE (an autonomous site reliability engineer for detection, root-cause analysis, runtime-validated remediation, and postmortem generation), and adjacent modules including the Runtime Aware PR Verifier, Autonomous Debugger, IDE plugins (JetBrains, VS Code, Visual Studio), AI Skills, LogOptimizer, Runtime Reachability Assessment, a CLI, public API, and language agents for Java, Python, Node.js, and .NET.
The company sells primarily to Fortune 500 enterprise engineering, SRE, and DevOps teams in regulated industries — financial services (Citi, Intercontinental Exchange, Clarivate), healthcare (UnitedHealth Group, Optum), telecommunications (AT&T), insurance (CHUBB), enterprise software (Microsoft, SAP, ADP, Gong.io), and travel/retail (Priceline, Taboola, Inditex, CWT) — under quote-based SaaS subscriptions with 12-month auto-renew terms and on-prem licenses, supported by a hybrid enterprise field sales motion plus a product-led self-serve free trial. Quantified customer outcomes include a 90% reduction in time-to-resolve at AT&T, 260+ hours per month reclaimed at Taboola, a 30% developer productivity uplift at Priceline across 2,000+ services, and a 30% incident response velocity increase at Drata.
Lightrun has raised $115 million across four funding rounds — a $4M seed (2020), a $23M Series A led by Insight Partners (2021), an $18M round led by GTM Capital (2023), and a $70M round co-led by Accel and Insight Partners with participation from Citi, Glilot, GTM Capital, and Sorenson Capital (April 2025). The company is co-founded and led by CEO Ilan Peleg and CTO Leonid Blouvshtein, is headquartered in Tel Aviv with a US affiliate (Lightrun, Inc.), operates at 51–100 employees, holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications with GDPR/HIPAA/CCPA alignment, and was recognized among Calcalist's 50 Most Promising Israeli Startups 2025.
Lightrun firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Lightrun
- Legal name
- Lightrun Platform Ltd.
- Website
- https://lightrun.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2019
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 51–100 employees
- Short description
- Lightrun is an Israel-based developer observability and AI SRE platform that enables enterprise engineering teams to dynamically instrument live production environments and ground AI coding agents in real runtime context for autonomous incident detection, root-cause analysis, and remediation.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Lightrun industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Developer Observability Platform
- NAICS
- Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)
- SIC
- Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)
- akta.pro primary industry
- AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Observability, Monitoring & AIOps (BPAEAKAG), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Reliability Operations (BPAEAKAD)
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Where Lightrun is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Tel Aviv
- HQ country
- Israel
- HQ region
- Middle East
Offices1 record
Markets served
Lightrun business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- SaaS Subscription: Primary revenue stream under a SaaS subscription model — personal, term-limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to access and use the Products and Services during the term specified in the Order Form, for internal use. Terms typically auto-renew in 12-month increments.
- On-Prem License: Available when specified in an Order Form, an On-Prem License grants the right to install a copy of the software in object code format and use it for the term, for internal use; used by customers requiring self-hosted deployment.
- Free Subscription / Trial: Free-of-charge SaaS subscription offered at Lightrun's discretion for evaluation or marketing purposes during a Trial/Free Period, with limited features and functionality, and may be revoked at any time. 'Try For Free' button visible on website and AI SRE sign-up flow.
- Professional Services: Ancillary services such as installation, maintenance, adaptation, training, and other services designated as such in the applicable Order Form, invoiced per session.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | Annual | SaaS Subscription (quote-based) |
| One time/ perpetual license | Multi-year contract | On-Prem License (quote-based) |
| Freemium | Pay-as-you-go | Free / Trial |
| Other | Pay-as-you-go | Professional Services (add-on) |
Go-to-market motion4 records
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels9 records
Lightrun product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Lightrun provides a developer-native observability and AI SRE platform that enables dynamic instrumentation of live production environments without redeployments. Its sandboxed runtime sensor adds logs, traces, metrics, and snapshots to running applications and exposes live production context to AI coding agents and IDEs via Model Context Protocol (MCP). The flagship Lightrun AI SRE product autonomously detects, investigates, and resolves production software errors using this runtime context, targeting enterprise engineering teams at Fortune 500 companies.
Product overview
Lightrun offers a unified AI-powered developer observability and reliability platform composed of a core runtime context layer and several product modules built on top of it. The flagship offering is Lightrun AI SRE, an autonomous AI site reliability engineering tool for detecting and fixing production errors, which sits on top of the Lightrun Runtime Sensor — a sandboxed, read-only runtime instrumentation engine that exposes live production state via MCP, API, and IDE plugins. Supporting modules include the Runtime Aware PR Verifier (PR-time validation), Lightrun Autonomous Debugger (IDE-embedded), Lightrun AI Skills (Live Runtime Debugging, Error Remediation Automation, Ask Prod), Lightrun LogOptimizer (logging cost reduction), Runtime Reachability Assessment (dynamic SBOMs and package tracking), the Lightrun CLI, the Lightrun Public API, and language-specific Lightrun Agents for Java, Python, Node.js, and .NET, with a Self-Hosted Server (Helm chart) for on-prem deployments. Together these products ground AI coding agents and SRE workflows in live runtime context, enabling runtime-aware development, validated AI-generated code, and autonomous incident remediation.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Lightrun AI SRE: AI-powered site reliability engineering tool launched in February 2026, capable of detecting software errors and performance issues, offering root cause analysis, automated remediation, and live environment validation.
- Lightrun Runtime Sensor
- Runtime Aware PR Verifier
- Lightrun Runtime Context (MCP)
Products and services
- Lightrun AI SRE AI-powered site reliability engineering tool that autonomously detects, investigates, and resolves production software errors. Provides root-cause analysis, fix recommendations, live validation of fixes against running systems, triage and alert routing, and automated postmortem generation. Built on Lightrun's Runtime Context engine and positioned as the company's flagship offering for enterprise engineering teams.
- Lightrun Runtime Sensor Sandboxed, read-only runtime instrumentation that exposes live production behavior—variables, logs, traces, metrics, snapshots—to AI agents and developers via MCP, API, and IDE plugin. Acts as the foundational context layer that grounds AI coding agents and AI SRE in real execution state.
- Runtime Aware PR Verifier Pull-request reviewer that simulates each code change's effect on the live system and validates that the change resolves the underlying ticket before merge. Powered by Lightrun Runtime Context and marked as a new product on the homepage.
Quantifiable outcome
- AT&T reduced Time to Resolve incidents from 5 hours to 30 minutes (90% reduction)
- +5 more outcomes
Companies that use Lightrun
Customer profileNamed customers18 records
Segments6 records
Ideal customer profiles2 records
Lightrun technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration32 records
AI capability10 records
Feature8 records
Lightrun partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
33 partnerships are on record, tiered core technology partner, major integration partner, strategic partner, marketing partner, integration partner, strategic technology partner, strategic infrastructure partner, compliance partner and marketing analytics partner.
- JetBrainscore technology partnerDeep integration with the JetBrains family of IDEs (IntelliJ, WebStorm) via the Lightrun JetBrains Plugin, providing dynamic logs, snapshots, metrics, dynamic traces, and the Lightrun Autonomous Debugger directly inside the IDE.
- Microsoft (Visual Studio / VS Code)core technology partnerNative Lightrun plugins for Visual Studio and VS Code, including dynamic logs, snapshots, metrics, multiple sources, and deployment switcher; supports Java, Python, Node.js, and .NET agents via the VS Code extension.
- Datadogmajor integration partnerLightrun integrates with Datadog to forward Events and Logs, allowing Lightrun dynamic telemetry to be correlated inside the Datadog observability platform.
- Dynatracemajor integration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with Dynatrace for forwarding telemetry and events into the Dynatrace observability suite.
- New Relicmajor integration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with New Relic to surface Lightrun dynamic telemetry inside the New Relic platform.
- Splunkmajor integration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with Splunk for forwarding logs and telemetry events to Splunk indexes.
- AppDynamicsmajor integration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with AppDynamics for APM-style telemetry correlation.
- Elastic Stackmajor integration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana) for forwarding logs and events.
- Grafanamajor integration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with Grafana for visualizing Lightrun metrics and traces.
- Prometheusmajor integration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with Prometheus for exporting metrics from Lightrun into Prometheus scrapers.
- Sumo Logicmajor integration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with Sumo Logic for forwarding logs and events.
- Instanamajor integration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with Instana for APM-style telemetry correlation.
- Sentrymajor integration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with Sentry for forwarding error events into Sentry's error tracking platform.
- Slackmajor integration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with Slack Alerts for routing Lightrun events and alerts into Slack channels.
- JFrogstrategic partnerJoint webinars and content (Nov 2020, Dec 2020 'Continuous Observability' and 'Continuous Observability & Continuous Debugging') featuring JFrog DevRel/Advocacy and Lightrun DevRel, plus integration with JFrog Artifactory documented in the runtime reachability assessment section.
- Azulmarketing partnerJoint webinar (Sept 2022) on 'Faster Performance and Better Debugging with Lightrun & Azul', covering Java performance and real-time debugging.
- HashiCorp (Nomad)integration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with HashiCorp Nomad for running Lightrun in HashiCorp Nomad-orchestrated environments.
- Google (SAML SSO)integration partnerDocumented SAML-based SSO integration with Google Workspace for Lightrun user authentication.
- Okta (SAML and OIDC SSO)integration partnerDocumented SAML and OIDC-based SSO integrations with Okta for Lightrun user authentication and SCIM provisioning.
- Microsoft Entra ID (SAML and OIDC SSO)integration partnerDocumented SAML and OIDC-based SSO integrations with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) for Lightrun user authentication and SCIM provisioning.
- Ping Identity (SAML and OIDC SSO)integration partnerDocumented SAML and OIDC-based SSO integrations with Ping Identity for Lightrun user authentication.
- OpenAIstrategic technology partnerLightrun's AI Addendum incorporates OpenAI's row terms of use and policies (<https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/>) governing use of OpenAI-powered AI Tools integrated into Lightrun's products.
- Anthropic (Claude Code)integration partnerLightrun Runtime Sensor integrates with Claude Code as one of the supported AI coding agents, enabling live production context for Claude Code workflows.
- GitHub (GitHub Copilot)integration partnerLightrun Runtime Sensor integrates with GitHub Copilot as one of the supported AI coding agents.
- Google (Gemini)integration partnerLightrun Runtime Sensor integrates with Gemini as one of the supported AI coding agents.
- AWS (Amazon Q)integration partnerLightrun Runtime Sensor integrates with Amazon Q as one of the supported AI coding agents.
- OpenAI (Codex / Cursor / Windsurf / Antigravity / Kiro / Junie)integration partnerLightrun Runtime Sensor integrates with multiple AI coding agents (Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Antigravity, Kiro, Junie) shown on the homepage.
- FluentDintegration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with FluentD for log forwarding and collection pipelines.
- StatsDintegration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with StatsD for metrics forwarding.
- SIEM platformsintegration partnerDocumented Lightrun integration with SIEM (Security Information & Event Management) platforms for forwarding security-relevant events.
- AWS (KMS / hosting)strategic infrastructure partnerLightrun uses AWS KMS for encryption key management with annual key rotation, and AWS Lambda is a supported deployment target.
- Prighter Groupcompliance partnerAppointed as Lightrun's privacy representative and point of contact for the European Union and United Kingdom under GDPR.
- Google (Google Analytics)marketing analytics partnerGoogle Analytics used by Lightrun for measuring site usage and marketing performance, with restricted data sharing per Google's terms.
Scale indicators13 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Lightrun competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- Datadog: Broad observability and monitoring platform for cloud-scale applications; Lightrun explicitly positions itself against Datadog as complementary/integrated, but Datadog's Watchdog and Bits AI efforts overlap with Lightrun's AI SRE vision.
- Dynatrace: Enterprise APM and observability platform with AI-driven RCA (Davis AI); Lightrun lists Dynatrace as both an integration partner and a competitor in narrative, given overlap on automated root-cause analysis and production debugging.
- New Relic: Application performance monitoring and observability suite with New Relic AI; comparable to Lightrun as a telemetry destination for production debugging and an existing integration partner.
- Splunk: Log analytics and observability platform (now part of Cisco); competes in production telemetry and is a documented Lightrun integration, with overlapping enterprise debugging and SRE use cases.
Direct peers
- Rookout: Israeli-founded developer observability platform offering dynamic debugging and live data extraction from production; the closest direct competitor to Lightrun's dynamic instrumentation model, with overlapping runtime debugging value proposition.
- Honeycomb: Observability platform purpose-built for production debugging with high-cardinality events and incident investigation; competes with Lightrun for SRE and engineering team budgets focused on debugging live production systems.
- Sentry: Application error tracking and performance monitoring platform widely used by developers; overlaps with Lightrun on production error visibility and is a documented Lightrun integration/SIEM partner.
Emerging players
- Chronosphere: Cloud-native observability platform with cardinality control and AI-driven incident response; competes for enterprise SRE budgets and intersects with Lightrun's AI SRE positioning.
- Coroot: Open-source APM and observability tool with AI-powered root cause analysis aimed at engineering teams; an emerging alternative in the AI-assisted SRE space where Lightrun competes.
Others
- PagerDuty: Incident response and on-call management platform used by SRE teams; complementary rather than directly competitive, but adjacent to Lightrun's triage and alert routing functionality within the AI SRE product.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Lightrun social profiles
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Trust signalCompliance5 records
Lightrun financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Lightrun leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles7 records
Lightrun funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds4 records
Investors7 records
Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Lightrun M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Frequently asked questions about Lightrun
What does Lightrun do?
Lightrun provides a developer-native observability and AI SRE platform that enables dynamic instrumentation of live production environments without redeployments. Its sandboxed runtime sensor adds logs, traces, metrics, and snapshots to running applications and exposes live production context to AI coding agents and IDEs via Model Context Protocol (MCP). The flagship Lightrun AI SRE product autonomously detects, investigates, and resolves production software errors using this runtime context, targeting enterprise engineering teams at Fortune 500 companies.
Is Lightrun a public or private company?
Lightrun is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was Lightrun founded?
Lightrun was founded in 2019. It employs 51 to 100 people.
Where is Lightrun based?
Lightrun is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, in the Middle East region.
How does Lightrun make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. SaaS Subscription is the primary driver. The others are on-Prem License, free Subscription / Trial and professional Services.
Who are Lightrun's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and Splunk. Direct peers are Rookout, Honeycomb and Sentry. Emerging players are Chronosphere and Coroot. PagerDuty is listed as an others.
Does Lightrun have an API?
Yes. Lightrun offers a public API and a Lightrun MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. The API supports programmatic access for tasks such as managing agents, viewing actions, and integrating with Lightrun's runtime observability platform. The MCP enables AI coding agents to access real-time runtime context for debugging and validating AI-generated code across the SDLC. Authentication is supported via SSO (SAML/OIDC), LDAP, and SCIM provisioning. The Lightrun API is documented at the public developer portal. SDKs/agents are available for Java, Python, Node.js, and .NET runtimes. Developer documentation is at docs.lightrun.com/public-api/api-reference.
What industry is Lightrun in?
Lightrun's product category is Developer Observability Platform. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDAEANAF, AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety), with a secondary code of BPAEAKAG, Observability, Monitoring & AIOps. Its NAICS code is 54151 and its SIC code is 7371.