We performed a comparison between GitLab and SonarCloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."GitLab offers a good interface for doing code reviews between two colleagues."
"A user friendly solution."
"I have found the most valuable features of GitLab are the GitClone, GitPush, GitPull, GitMatch, GitMit, GitCommit, and GitStatus."
"I have had no problem with the stability of the solution."
"We use the Git repository and tagging feature. We are a product-based company and use this solution to move to a forward or backward tag."
"The merging feature makes it easy later on for the deployment."
"This product is always evolving, and they listen to the customers."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its convenience. I am able to trace back most of my changes up to a far distance in time and it helps me to analyze and see the older version of the code."
"I'm not implementing the solutions. However, I've talked to the people who deploy the tools, and they are happy with how easy setting up SonarCloud is."
"The solution can be installed locally."
"SonarCloud is overall a good tool for identifying code smells, bugs, and code duplication, but we've found that using Android Lint is more effective for our needs."
"The most valuable features of SonarCloud are the ability to discover vulnerabilities, security weak points, security hotspots, and all the feedback that comes into the feature branch. You can deploy the code with the security, you can eliminate the problem at the developer level rather than identifying the problem in the productions."
"For what it is meant to do, it works pretty well."
"Its dashboard provides a unified view of various code quality metrics, including code duplication, unit test coverage, and security hotspots."
"The reports from SonarCloud are very good."
"The most valuable feature of SonarCloud is its overall performance."
"Even if I say I want some improvement, they will say it is already planned in the first quarter, second quarter, or third quarter. That said, most everything is quite improved already, and they're improving even further still."
"The price of GitLab could improve, it is high."
"Their RBAC is role-based access, which is fine but not very good."
"GitLab could improve by having more plugins and better user-friendliness."
"We'd always like to see better pricing on the product."
"When deploying the solution on cloud and the CI/CD pipeline, we have to define the steps and it becomes confusing."
"Expand features to match other tools such as a static code analysis tool so third-party integrations are not required."
"It is a little complex to set up the pipelines within the solution."
"The reports could improve by providing more information. We are not able to use the reports in our operation until they are improved. Additionally, if the vendor provided more customization capabilities it would be a benefit."
"We had some issues with the scanner."
"The solution needs to improve its customization and flexibility."
"There's room for improvement in the configuration process, particularly during the initial setup phase."
"I've been told by the developers that the solution is too limited. It's not testing enough within the containers."
"The documentation needs improvement on optimizing build time for seamless CI/CD integration with our Android apps."
"SonarCloud can improve the false positives. Sometimes the gates sometimes act a little weird. We then need to manually go and mark the false positive."
"CI/CD pipeline is part of a whole chain of design, development, and production, and it's becoming increasingly crucial to optimize the various tools across different stages. However, it's still a silo approach because the full integration is missing. This isn't just an issue with SonarCloud. It's a general problem with tooling."
GitLab is ranked 7th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 70 reviews while SonarCloud is ranked 10th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 10 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while SonarCloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonarCloud writes "Beneficial vulnerability discovery, simple to maintain, and proactive support". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo and AWS CodePipeline, whereas SonarCloud is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Checkmarx One, OWASP Zap and Coverity. See our GitLab vs. SonarCloud report.
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