Harness vs PerfectScale comparison

Harness and PerfectScale are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. Harness is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while PerfectScale is ranked #18 with an average rating of 10.0. Additionally, 100% of Harness users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of PerfectScale users who would recommend it.

Harness

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100% willing to recommend

PerfectScale

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Harness

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Build Automation (7th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (18th)

PerfectScale

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

18th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

1.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Featured Reviews

Linwei Yuan

Software Engineer at Citi

Streamline microservices deployment with integrated execution pipelines and comprehensive monitoring

Harness integrates all functions like execution pipelines, environment checks, and log monitoring in one place. It is very convenient since we have many microservices, so having one platform for all of them is beneficial. The dashboard allows me to monitor all core services' deployment status in one place, making it easier to find bugs and check logs.

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reviewer2750058

DevOps & FinOps Engineer at Papaya Global

Gain visibility into Kubernetes clusters and optimize resource allocation based on historical data

I think they should focus more on Kubernetes features that allow on-the-fly resource allocation without the need to restart services. They should implement this in their autoscaler to make it more useful in scenarios that require immediate scaling up or down. They should also offer more options for visualizing graphs in different ways, such as tabular views.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Harness starts integrating with organizations, making everything automated without the need for manual interruption."

"Everything in Harness is configured and runs smoothly."

"The features of Harness are valuable, supporting rolling deployments, basic deployments, and blue-green deployments with zero downtime."

"Harness integrates all functions like execution pipelines, environment checks, and log monitoring in one place, making it convenient."

"It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."

"Harness integrates all functions like execution pipelines, environment checks, and log monitoring in one place."

"The cluster and workload autoscaler gives us the ability to have control over all the workloads' resources instead of managing them one by one."

Cons

"I prefer the previous less compact UI version of Harness, which showed more details on the screen."

"Harness setup and configurations could be made easier to configure, which would be helpful."

"When integrating Harness with more than twenty applications in one place, it becomes less stable, causing improvements to be necessary."

"When deploying multiple components to multiple environments, like production and BCP, failures sometimes occur. Improvements are needed when deploying one component to one environment."

"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."

"Even with automation, there's a requirement for manual change requests for approvals."

"I think they should focus more on Kubernetes features that allow on-the-fly resource allocation without the need to restart services."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Harness?

It's a highly customizable DevOps tool.

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What needs improvement with Harness?

Harness setup and configurations could be made easier to configure, which would be helpful.

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What is your primary use case for Harness?

In Harness, we are basically using Canary type deployments. We have applications, web applications, and web servers. Whenever we get the WAR file with 50 servers in a load balancer, Harness will de...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PerfectScale?

There was not really a setup cost involved.

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What needs improvement with PerfectScale?

At the beginning, the support was not very impressive. There were some mistakes in the documentation, such as how to exclude a workload from automation.

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What is your primary use case for PerfectScale?

I used PerfectScale to gain insight into the workload and then optimized the resource allocation through manual configuration or automated allocation. By doing so, I was able to achieve Kubernetes ...

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Overview

Harness offers a comprehensive toolset for automating deployment processes and enhancing software update efficiency. It's lauded for its CI/CD capabilities, feature flagging, and real-time deployment monitoring. Key features include an intuitive UI, secret management, and robust rollback functionalities, all contributing to improved productivity and reduced errors in DevOps environments.

Harness

Ensure peak performance and cut costs by up to 50% with data-driven, autonomous actions that continuously optimize each layer of your K8s stack. Effortlessly control the scale of your K8s to ensure optimal resource allocation.

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Sample Customers

Linedata, Openbank, Home Depot, Advanced

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