Lightrun has announced Lightrun AI SRE, an AI-powered site reliability engineering (SRE) assistant designed to detect software production errors and performance degradations.

Introduced February 25, the Lightrun AI SRE correlates the service-level issues it finds with proven root causes to propose solutions. Drawing on on live, in-line runtime context, the AI SRE allows AI agents and engineering teams to create missing evidence dynamically, prove root causes with live execution data, and validate fixes directly in live environments, Lightrun said.

The company cited the folllowing key capabilities and benefits of AI SRE:

• Performs root cause analysis based on new evidence from live environments, without needing prior instrumentation.
• Suggests runtime-validated code changes to eliminate guesswork and reduce rollback-and-redeploy cycles.
• Performs live issue debugging in safe remote sessions with execution-level behavior inspections.
• Provides dynamic telemetry to running systems to fill visibility gaps that traditional, observability tools cannot address.
• Reduces reliance on expensive war rooms, due to autonomous remediation and the ability to receive a code fix of incidents before escalating to a human.
• Provides resilience to “unknown unknowns” introduced by multiple AI agents across the SDLC.

The Lightrun AI SRE safely interacts with live systems via Lightrun’s Sandbox to create new evidence, test hypotheses, and validate outcomes against real execution behavior, Lightrun said. This capability transforms AI SRE from a reactive, post-incident advisor into a trusted, runtime-verified autonomous engineer that ensures reliability by design, according to the company.