We performed a comparison between CAST Highlight and GitLab 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."The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"The most valuable features of the CAST Highlight are the interface and there are three notations that are very simple to understand and communicate with."
"The way it tells you which codebase is more ready for the cloud and which codebase is less ready is very valuable. It works seamlessly with most languages."
"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."
"It offers good performance."
"Of all available products, it was the easiest to use and easy to install."
"GitLab's best features are maintenance, branch integration, and development infrastructure."
"CI/CD is valuable for me."
"The most valuable functionality of GitLab, for me, is the DevOps. Besides the normal source control based on Git, I find the Auto DevOps features most important in the solution."
"GitLab is being used as a repository for our codebase and it is a one stop DevOps tool we use in our team."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its security."
"The solution makes the CI/CD pipelines easy to execute."
"I like that you can use GitLab as a double-sided solution for both DevOps and version management. It's a good product for working in these two areas, and the user interface makes it easy to understand."
"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."
"Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. I would expect CAST Highlight to have the Help dashboard and the Engineering dashboard. These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time."
"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."
"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."
"I used Spring Cloud config and to connect that to GitLab was so hard."
"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."
"The only thing our company is really waiting on in terms of features is the development of metrics."
"I would like to have some features to support peer review."
"It can be free for commercial use."
"The documentation could be improved to help newcomers better understand things like creating new branches."
"Based on what I know so far, its integration with Kubernetes is not so good. We have to develop many things to make it work. We have to acquire third-party components to work with Kubernetes."
"GitLab's UI could be improved."
CAST Highlight is ranked 10th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 5 reviews while GitLab is ranked 6th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 70 reviews. CAST Highlight is rated 7.8, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of CAST Highlight writes "Easy to set up with optimized and automated insights". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". CAST Highlight is most compared with SonarQube, Checkmarx One, Snyk, Veracode and Sonatype Lifecycle, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton. See our CAST Highlight vs. GitLab report.
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