Spotify Backstage vs. configure8
configure8 is the preferred choice for enterprises seeking an internal developer portal with more value-added features and a lower total cost of ownership.
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.
Want to define best practices and measure engineering teams’ compliance via Scorecards? You’ll need a solution like configure8 with a powerful data ingestion, storage and organization system to power it.
Liberate developers from process bottlenecks and cognitive load without sacrificing standards. Enable them to easily configure a production-ready application (not just scaffold a microservice) and also manage common day 2 operations related to existing services, environments, and resources via configure8's no-code UI that loosely couples with your existing tools and processes.
Deliver more business value to your stakeholders with configure8. Get powerful functionality not available in
Backstage OSS, incur significantly less set-up and maintenance overhead, and de-risk your success with a partner who delivers a solution not just a tool or framework.
Applications
Services
(confirm availability of data pipelines, serverless, etc.)
Environments
Kubernetes
(no visibility for certain K8 objects nor multi-cluster support)
Resources
Credential-based, read-only AWS, Azure, GCP; many services per cloud; on-prem via API
Service + Resource Dependencies
Limited
Search Quality
(due in part to uneven plugin quality as well as the Backstage data model and back-end)
Data Model + Back-End
Robust
Limited; largely syndicated via plugins of uneven quality
UI Functionality
Rich functionality per plugin, such as result filtration and native metrics + actions
Depends on plugin quality
UI Configurability
Drag and drop
Coding required
Feature Functionality
(paid plugin, coding required)
Breadth of Functionality
Over 40 metrics plus custom data passed via API
Unknown
Native Data Integrations
(repos, APM, on-call, ticketing, CI/CD, etc. + API)
Notifications
Unknown
Manager View
Create Something New
Create production ready applications, services, environments, and resources
Limited to code scaffolded by Cookiecutter
Day 2 Actions
3rd-Party Runner Orchestration
Trigger via API
Usage Restriction Policies
Usage Insights
Paid plugin; limited functionality
Ease of Tool Integration
Credential-based and API; no YAML required
Manual
Automatically Load Services Into Catalog and Map Dependencies
Via supported tools or API
Manually declared; subject to drift
Drift Avoidance
Via supported tools or API
Maintenance Cost
White-glove support; minimal LOE to maintain
No support; LOE to maintain can be very high
See how easy it is to get started in our documentation.
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