Spotify Backstage vs. configure8

A developer portal for

cataloging everything

achieving high standards

velocity via self-service

improving via insights

cataloging everything

configure8 is the preferred choice for enterprises seeking an internal developer portal with more value-added features and a lower total cost of ownership.

What Makes configure8 Unique

A Truly Universal Catalog

Rather than stop at the service boundary, configure8 has built the first truly universal catalog – all your services and their cloud costs, dependencies, environments, clusters, resources, pipelines, metrics, owners, and more. It’s easy to set-up and automatically reflects changes. Best of all, it lays the foundation for other unique features like scorecards and analytics as well as artfully integrates the user experience and knowledge with self-serve actions.

Achieve High Standards

Want to define best practices and measure engineering teams’ compliance via Scorecards? Need an easy way to answer security, compliance and FinOps questions? You’ll need a solution like configure8 with a powerful data ingestion and storage and organization system to power (not a fancy RSS reader that embeds portions of other tool’s user interfaces).

Accelerate Velocity via Self-Service

Liberate developers from bottlenecks and manual ops, and reduce your maintenance overhead and TicketOps burden, all without sacrificing standards. Easily build reusable golden paths that enable developers to create not just new services but manage existing ones as well via a no-code UI

Superior Return On Investment

Enable the platform engineering team to deliver more business value with configure8’s unique features like a Universal Catalog, Scorecards, Actions, and Cloud Costs, a delightful user experience that makes for happier developers, and (far) fewer set-up and maintenance tasks so your team can focus on what matters.

Product Comparison

configure8
Spotify Backstage
Universal Catalog

Applications

configure8
Backstage

Services

configure8
Backstage

(confirm availability of data pipelines, serverless, etc.)

Environments

configure8
Backstage

Kubernetes

configure8
Backstage

(no visibility for certain K8 objects nor multi-cluster support)

Cloud Resources

configure8
Backstage

Credential-based, read-only AWS, Azure, GCP; many services per cloud

Service + Resource Dependencies

configure8
Backstage

Search Quality

configure8
Backstage

(due in part to uneven plugin quality as well as the Backstage data model and back-end)

Data Model + Back-End

configure8
Backstage

Robust

Limited; largely syndicated via plugins of uneven quality

UI Functionality

configure8
Backstage

Rich functionality per plugin, such as result filtration and native metrics + actions

?

Depends on plugin quality

UI Configurability

configure8
Backstage

Drag and drop

Coding required

Scorecards

Feature Functionality

configure8
Backstage

(paid plugin, coding required)

Breadth of Functionality

configure8
Backstage

Over 40 metrics plus custom data passed via API

?

Unknown

Native Data Integrations

configure8
Backstage

(repos, APM, on-call, ticketing, CI/CD, etc. + API)

Notifications

configure8
Backstage
?

Unknown

Manager View

configure8
Backstage
Self-Serve Actions

Create A New Service

configure8
Backstage

Coming soon!

Day 2 Actions

configure8
Backstage

Coming soon!

3rd-Party Runner Orchestration

configure8
Backstage

Coming soon!

Trigger via API

configure8
Backstage

Coming soon!

Usage Restriction Policies

configure8
Backstage

Coming soon!

Analytics

Answer powerful questions in a no-code UI

configure8
Backstage
Set-Up + Maintenance

Ease of Tool Integration

configure8
Backstage

Credential-based; no YAML required

Manual

Automatically Load Services Into Catalog and Map Dependencies

configure8
Backstage

Via supported tools or API

Manually declared; subject to drift

Drift Avoidance

configure8
Backstage

Via supported tools or API

Maintenance Cost

configure8
Backstage

White-glove support; minimal LOE to maintain

No support; LOE to maintain can be very high

Get Started in Minutes!

See how easy it is to get started in our documentation.

Single-click integrations

  • Why write YAML and manually configure each plugin when you can securely integrate in 1 click? Integrate K8s without an agent too.

Quickly populates; avoids drift

  • Automatically populate your catalog with services and dependencies.* 
  • Automatically map resources to environments and services.
  • Avoid drift to maintain catalog accuracy.*
* Requires use of supported tools

Enterprise features + support

  • RBAC, SSO, Audit Logs and rigorous security.
  • Hosted in our secure AWS environment or yours.
  • “White glove” support.