Case Study: Taboola slashes MTTR and saves 260+ debugging hours a month with Lightrun

Taboola saves 260+ debugging hours a month with Lightrun

Taboola, a digital advertising company with a highly dynamic production environment, faced significant challenges in debugging and ensuring reliability. Their massive scale, with servers handling hundreds of thousands of queries per second, made reproducing issues locally impossible. Lengthy deployment cycles and the high cost of downtime meant they needed a better way to validate features and perform root cause analysis in production. They turned to the vendor Lightrun for a solution.

Lightrun provided Taboola with real-time production debugging capabilities using logs, snapshots, and performance metrics. This allowed developers to add instrumentation on-demand without code changes or redeploys, enabling fast validation of new features and rapid root cause analysis. The solution slashed their mean time to resolution (MTTR) and saved over 260 debugging hours every month, resolving issues that previously took weeks in under an hour and significantly increasing developer productivity.

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