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    GitLab

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AGitLab DevSecOps platform enables software innovation by aiming to empower development, security, and operations teams to build better software, faster. With GitLab, teams can create, deliver, and manage code quickly and continuously instead of managing disparate tools and scripts. GitLab helps teams across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, from developing, securing, and deploying software. Differentiators, as described by Gitlab: Simplicity: With GitLab, DevSecOps can…

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    Request Metrics

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ARealtime website performance tests generated from real user experience on a website. Request Metrics gathers performance data from actual users, rather than a synthetic tests. Request Metrics is website performance monitoring, simplified for small high performance teams. There is no complicated query languages to learn or theoretical metrics to understand. The service provides reports that help keep a website running fast, and customers…

    $37

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    GitLab Essential
    $0
    per month per user
    GitLab Premium
    $29
    per month per user
    GitLab Ultimate
    $99
    per month per user
    Essentials
    $37
    per month
    Professional
    $96
    per month
    Custom
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    Free Trial
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
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    Features
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    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of GitLab and Request Metrics
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    GitLab
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    Request Metrics
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Score6.8 out of 10
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    GitLabRequest Metrics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (142 ratings)
    10.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    GitLabRequest Metrics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GitLab
    GitLab is good if you work a lot with code and do complex repository actions. It gives you a very good overview of what were the states of your branches and the files in them at different stages in time. It's also way easier and more efficient to write pipelines for CI\CD. It's easier to read and it's easier to write them. It takes fewer clicks to achieve the same things with GitLab than it does for competitor products.
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    TrackJS
    Request Metrics is great for small web development teams that want to make fast web applications. It was quick for us to get started and we could use the reports right away without having to read through documentation. If you just need to get some performance metrics, Request Metrics is perfect. It would not be so good for a larger team or a complex backend application as it is pretty limited in what it can measure.
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    Pros
    GitLab
    • GitLab excels in managing code versions, allowing easy tracking of changes, branch management, and merging contributions.
    • It helps maintain code stability and reliability, saving time and effort in the development or research workflow.
    • Powerful code review features, enabling collaboration and feedback among team members.
    • Robust project management features, including issue tracking, kanban boards, and milestones.
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    TrackJS
    • Performance charts are really simple and easy for us to understand what is happening
    • It was easy to get started and doesn't need administration or training
    • It's affordable for our team
    • It's fast
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    Cons
    GitLab
    • CI variables management is sometimes hard to use, for example, with File type variables. The scope of each variable is also hard to guess.
    • Access Token: there are too many types (Personal, Project, global..), and it is hard to identify the scope and where it comes from once created.
    • Runners: auto-scaled runners are for the moment hard to put in place, and monitoring is not easy.
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    TrackJS
    • I wish that it could also do uptime checking of the site
    • There is not enough detail to drill into individual users
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    Likelihood to Renew
    GitLab
    I really feel the platform has matured quite faster than others, and it is always at the top of its game compared to the different vendors like GitHub, Azure pipelines, CircleCI, Travis, Jenkins. Since it provides, agents, CI/CD, repository hosting, Secrets management, user management, and Single Sign on; among other features
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    TrackJS
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    Usability
    GitLab
    I find it easy to use, I haven't had to do the integration work, so that's why it is a 9/10, cause I can't speak to how easy that part was or the initial set up, but day to day use is great!
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    TrackJS
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    Reliability and Availability
    GitLab
    I've never had experienced outages from GItlab itself, but regarding the code I have deployed to Gitlab, the history helps a lot to trace the cause of the issue or performing a rollback to go back to a working version
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    TrackJS
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    Performance
    GitLab
    GItlab reponsiveness is amazing, has never left me IDLE. I've never had issues even with complex projects. I have not experienced any issues when integrating it with agents for example or SSO
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    TrackJS
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    Support Rating
    GitLab
    At this point, I do not have much experience with Gitlab support as I have never had to engage them. They have documentation that is helpful, not quite as extensive as other documentation, but helpful nonetheless. They also seem to be relatively responsive on social media platforms (twitter) and really thrived when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft
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    TrackJS
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    Alternatives Considered
    GitLab
    Gitlab seems more cutting-edge than GitHub; however, its AI tools are not yet as mature as those of CoPilot. It feels like the next-generation product, so as we selected a tool for our startup, we decided to invest in the disruptor in the space. While there are fewer out-of-the-box templates for Gitlab, we have never discovered a lack of feature parity.
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    TrackJS
    We also consider Speedcurve and Calibre for monitoring. Speedcurve was really nice, but the reports were slow. We had to wait a lot to get information. It was also out of our budget and would require extra justification to use it. Calibre was also nice, but the numbers were based on synthetic rather than real user performance. We felt that this wasn't as helpful for us.
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    Scalability
    GitLab
    I think is very well designed, and like any VCS it works as intended
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    TrackJS
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    Return on Investment
    GitLab
    • GitLab cut down our spent on container, package and infrastructure registry
    • Best thing is we can now have everything in single platform which cost effective too
    • Quality of support is really good and they do have emergency support team as well which is great
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    TrackJS
    • The launch of our project dashboard was much smoother and more successful because we could fix problems earlier
    • It fit without our existing operations budget
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    GitLab Screenshots

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    Request Metrics Screenshots

    Screenshot of an illustration of how Request Metrics tracks Core Web VitalsScreenshot of an example of a few website performance tracking reportsScreenshot of load sequences available for debuggingScreenshot of problem drill downScreenshot of SEO monitoring