Lightrun Extension for Visual Studio 2022

The Lightrun Extension for Visual Studio 2022 is currently in beta.

To get the Lightrun Extension on Visual Studio 2019 (beta), go to Lightrun Extension for Visual Studio 2019

Lightrun is a developer-centric observability platform designed to empower developers by enabling real-time troubleshooting of live applications directly within the Visual Studio IDE. It supports debugging of C#, Java, Node.js, and Python applications across any environment without the need for hotfixes, restarts, or redeployments. This approach drastically reduces the mean time to resolution (MTTR) for critical incidents, allowing developers to diagnose and fix issues quickly and efficiently, all within their existing workflow.

To view Lightrun debugging in action, see Live Debugging with Dynamic Instrumentation Using Lightrun.

To use this Visual Studio extension, software engineers must register an account and purchase a license. Once installing the extension, please visit https://lightrun.com to purchase your software license.

After purchasing your license, please read the following documentation to learn how to use and configure the extension: https://docs.lightrun.com/.

For more information about the extension, visit: https://lightrun.com/.

For feedback and bug reports, please email support@lightrun.com.

Lightrun features

Lightrun's IDE Extension enables the addition of real-time, code-level information to your running production applications. After a short download and configuration process, you will be able to:

• Add log lines - including the evaluation of expressions - without redeploying, recompiling or even restarting the application.
• Capture a snapshot (our version of a "virtual" breakpoint) to your running applications - without stopping the running program.

Using Lightrun, you can:

• See the full content (variables, arrays and objects) of any stack frame along a user’s journey through your application - without stopping the running process.
• Evaluate any expression, anywhere in the code, without changing the state of the running application or causing side effects.
• Get real-time alerts in Slack (or any application with a webhook) for every piece of instrumentation added.

Release Notes

For a full list of released highlights, feature enhancements, and bug fixes, see Lightrun Release Notes.