Datadog Service Catalog Alternative: Compare Cortex to Datadog Service Catalog

Looking for an Datadog Service Catalog alternative? You've come to the right place - Teams choose Cortex over Datadog Service Catalog to get complete visibility into their service architecture, up-to-date ownership information, and enforce best practices with Scorecards and powerful CQL.

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“Scorecards have made it incredibly easy to track the status of migrations across different services and teams.

We now have real data on which services are at risk and no longer need to manually check with teams, run scripts, or dig through several tools to find the right data. No one has to go in and update anything manually - it’s all automated and synced with Cortex.”

Rafael Garcia - Cofounder & CTO, Clever

“Cortex has tremendously helped with the visibility and discoverability of service info.

It’s very easy for a new engineer to learn more about the services they own and their downstream dependencies. We can understand what a service is calling, who it’s owners are, and where the documentation lives in one single dashboard.“

Sanket - Sr. Software Engineer

Cortex vs Datadog

Basic Service Catalog

Flexible Scorecards to drive best practices and standards, with 30+ direct integrations and unlimited extensibility

Automatically sync team memberships with Identity Providers like Okta, GitHub Teams, and Active Directory for up to date service ownership

One-click service creation powered by Cookiecutter to generate boilerplate and plumbing for new services

Executive reporting for Scorecards with historical data to drive service maturity

Query services across custom fields, integrations, and metadata

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Building a DORA metrics Scorecard

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scorecards

Align your team and drive accountability

Scorecards enable teams to drive what matters most to them – including service quality, production readiness standards, and migrations.

Tracking service quality on spreadsheets? That’s a thing of the past.

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Service Catalog

A single source of truth for your services

Cortex’s service catalog integrates with the most popular engineering tools, giving teams an easy way to understand everything about their architecture

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Teams

Build a culture of reliability and high performance

Teams enable organizations to drive a sense of ownership and pride as they improve service quality.

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Scaffolder

Ensure new services follow best practices from day one

Scaffolder lets developers scaffold a new service in less than five minutes using custom templates crafted by your team.

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