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Harness pros and cons

Vendor: Harness
3.9 out of 5
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PROS

Harness is a highly customizable DevOps tool.
Harness automates processes without the need for manual interruption.
Harness integrates execution pipelines, environment checks, and log monitoring in one place, providing convenience.
Harness supports rolling deployments, basic deployments, and blue-green deployments with zero downtime.
By adopting templates and various pipelines within an IDP platform, Harness saves development time and reduces failure risks.

CONS

Debugging pipeline issues can become complex.
Manual change requests for approvals are required despite automation.
Integrating Harness with over twenty applications may cause instability.
Failures occur when deploying multiple components to environments like production and BCP.
Harness lacks infrastructure as code or pipeline as code capabilities.
 

Harness Pros review quotes

Misbah Mohammed Kollathodi - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Technical Leader - SRE (Cloud/Kubernetes-Security) at Cisco
Apr 5, 2024
It's a highly customizable DevOps tool.
NK
DevOps Enginee at LTIMindtree
Oct 18, 2024
Harness starts integrating with organizations, making everything automated without the need for manual interruption.
Linwei Yuan - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Citi
Dec 16, 2024
Harness integrates all functions like execution pipelines, environment checks, and log monitoring in one place.
Learn what your peers think about Harness. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: December 2025.
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RB
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Apr 28, 2025
The features of Harness are valuable, supporting rolling deployments, basic deployments, and blue-green deployments with zero downtime.
SAURAB K GANGURDE - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators
Sep 23, 2025
Everything in Harness is configured and runs smoothly.
MK
Technical Associate at ZS
Nov 24, 2025
By adopting templates and various different pipelines across our own IDP platform, we have saved upwards of 30 to 40% of development time and also reduced risks of failures or error rates by upwards of 70%.
reviewer2787357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 5, 2026
Production deployments are faster and more reliable, especially for Kubernetes and cloud-based services, with significant reduction in deployment-related incidents, faster recovery when issues occur, faster, more confident releases, increased deployment frequency with higher confidence, and better governance and compliance that improved visibility and coordination across Dev, QA, Ops, and SRE teams.
 

Harness Cons review quotes

Misbah Mohammed Kollathodi - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Technical Leader - SRE (Cloud/Kubernetes-Security) at Cisco
Apr 5, 2024
There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex.
NK
DevOps Enginee at LTIMindtree
Oct 18, 2024
Even with automation, there's a requirement for manual change requests for approvals.
Linwei Yuan - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Citi
Dec 16, 2024
I prefer the previous less compact UI version of Harness, which showed more details on the screen.
Learn what your peers think about Harness. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: December 2025.
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RB
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Apr 28, 2025
When deploying multiple components to multiple environments, like production and BCP, failures sometimes occur. Improvements are needed when deploying one component to one environment.
SAURAB K GANGURDE - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators
Sep 23, 2025
Harness setup and configurations could be made easier to configure, which would be helpful.
MK
Technical Associate at ZS
Nov 24, 2025
Infrastructure as code or pipeline as code is something that Harness severely lacks.
reviewer2787357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 5, 2026
The first point for improvement is the steep learning curve, where concepts such as services, environment, pipelines, and templates take time to understand.