OpsLevel Alternative

Compare Cortexto OpsLevel

Like OpsLevel, Cortex makes it easy to onboard with templates for common use cases. But unlike OpsLevel, Cortex provides workflows and room to scale when your team is ready for new use cases and, like more complex scorecards, initiatives, querying, and the ability to build custom experiences via plugins.

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Loved by entire engineering teams

Cortex is loved not only by platform engineers but also across the entire engineering organization, including SREs, security engineers, DevOps, infrastructure professionals, and leadership.

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"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 OpsLevel

Out-of-the-box catalog
Scaffolding
One-click service creation powered by Cookiecutter to generate boilerplate and plumbing for new services. Our scaffolder in native in the platform and does not require custom tooling in third party pipelines
Actions
Chain together multiple actions wrapped in standards vs just pushing a single HTTP request. One of the most powerful features of Cortex Actions is their ability to be fully templated.
Workflows
Allows users to build and execute sophisticated workflows inside of Cortex, that are based on all of the contextual information that lives inside your workspace.
Catalog customization 
Catalog extensibility 
Cortex offers far more out of the box rules, in part due to a much higher amount of API based integrations
Basic Scorecards with custom data
Flexible scorecards with 50+ direct integrations and unlimited extensibility
The majority of OpsLevel integrations are webhook pushes, vs. API-based, vendor supported integrations.
Slackbot to fetch catalog data
Live integrations model with major third party tools like Pagerduty, Datadog, and more
Automatically sync team memberships with Identity Providers like Okta, GitHub Teams, and Active Directory
One-click service creation powered by Cookiecutter to generate boilerplate and plumbing for new services
Does not support extending existing services through PRs. No cookiecutter extensions, including field descriptions, service metadata, and more
Executive reporting with historical data
Query services across custom fields, integrations, and metadata
Initiatives functionality inside Cortex app
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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Overview of services ownership for a few dwevelopers using cortex app
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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