Cortex is a YC-backed startup founded in 2019. Based out of San Francisco, Cortex’s Service Catalog is designed to provide immediate visibility of all software entities to developers, including but not limited to documentation, change history, dependencies, and ownership information. Being a leading commercial SaaS provider for this category, Cortex has a lot of user love behind it — especially for their integrations.
1. Actions: Actions are a recent release in Cortex and have limited functionality with regards to the pre-defined templates,
2. No self signup: Cortex is an enterprise offering and requires setting up a call before a user can try the platform. They do have a platform demo on Youtube though.
1. Powerful Scorecards: Compared to other commercial tools, Cortex offers scorecards where evaluation criteria can be based on metrics or custom data points using their native CQL (Cortex Query Language). This empowers users to add custom metrics like MTTR, SLOs, Apdex scores, etc. within their scorecard.
2. Cookiecutter-based Scaffolding: Cortex has a Service scaffolding feature based on Cookiecutter, an open source project to define boiler plating for any new service.
3. Monorepo support: Across all of their VCS integrations (BitBucket, Github, Gitlab, etc.), Cortex has specific mention with support for monorepos.
4. SSOs: Okta, Azure AD and Google supported.
Website: https://www.cortex.io/
(Perfect for making buy/build decisions or internal reviews.)
