We performed a comparison between GitLab and JFrog Xray based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."
"It is scalable."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution makes the CI/CD pipelines easy to execute."
"Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."
"I have found the most valuable feature is security control. I also like the branching and cloning software."
"This product is always evolving, and they listen to the customers."
"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."
"JFrog Xray's reporting feature has a lot of options in it, including scanning."
"JFrog Xray shows us a list of vulnerabilities that can impact our code."
"I would say that this solution has helped our organization by allowing us to automate a lot of the processes."
"If multiple dependencies and vulnerabilities are found in a project, JFrog Xray is intelligent enough to tell you which vulnerability to target first."
"Good reporting functionalities."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature of JFrog Xray is the display of the entire internal dependencies hierarchy."
"As GitLab is not perfect, what needs improvement in the solution is the Wiki feature of the groups or the repertories because currently, it's not searchable by default. You'll need an indexing service such as Elasticsearch to make it searchable, and that requires too much work, so for me, it's the main feature that should be improved in GitLab. In the next version of the solution, from the top of my head, the documentation could be improved. Besides the Wiki, it would be good if there's documentation that would be automatically generated based on the code repository. In other words, there should be some tutorials from GitLab for developers in the next release."
"The documentation could be improved to help newcomers better understand things like creating new branches."
"It would be better if there weren't any outages. There are occasions where we usually see a lot of outages using GitLab. It happens at least once a week or something like that. Whatever pipelines you're running, to check the logs, you need to have a different set of tools like Argus or something like that. If you have pipelines running on GitLab, you need a separate service deployed to view the logs, which is kind of a pain. If the logs can be used conveniently on GitLab, that would be definitely helpful. I'm not talking about the CI/CD pipelines but the back-end services and microservices deployed over GitLab. To view the logs for those microservices, you need to have separate log viewers, which is kind of a pain."
"Their RBAC is role-based access, which is fine but not very good."
"We'd like to see better integration with the Atlassian ecosystem."
"The integration could be slightly better."
"Reporting could be improved."
"I would like to see security increased in the future. A secure environment is very important."
"Reporting is crucial, but it is lacking in the current tool. Every organization seeks specific data points rather than general information. Therefore, we require customized reports from the Xray tool."
"JFrog Xray does not have a dashboard."
"I think that the user interface should be expanded to provide customers with a better dashboard for reviewing their feedback regarding their images and the vulnerabilities that are associated with the images."
"JFrog Xray's documentation and error logging could be improved."
"Lacks deeper reporting, the ability to compare things."
"The speed of JFrog Xray should improve. Other solutions have better performance."
"Since we have been using the solution via APIs, there are some limitations in the APIs."
GitLab is ranked 6th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 70 reviews while JFrog Xray is ranked 7th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 7 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while JFrog Xray is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JFrog Xray writes "An intelligent solution that prioritizes which vulnerability to target first in your project". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton, whereas JFrog Xray is most compared with Black Duck, Snyk, Veracode, Mend.io and Amazon Inspector. See our GitLab vs. JFrog Xray report.
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