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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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octant
Discontinued Highly extensible platform for developers to better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters.
Having received a face-lift and new name, Skooner continues to be a leading open-source tool for holistically monitoring Kubernetes. The developers behind the project tout the simplicity and real-time availability of their solution—no refreshes or manual polling is required to fetch system data as it’s collected. Additionally, the YAML provided within the tool’s resource repository allows you to start leveraging Skooner in just a minute’s time.
Last but not least, Prometheus is a wildly popular open-source tool maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). As such, it enjoys significant backing and development support by the community at large. You’ll notice an immediate GUI difference between this and the other entrants on our list; Prometheus uses a darker palette and arranges its visualizations a little differently. The information is displayed more densely according to endpoint, host, and port. Prometheus helps monitor the following:
Like the Kubernetes Dashboard, Octant is an open-source web interface for visualizing your clusters and applications. The solution supports multiple plugins via a core gRPC API, making Octant extensible and richly featured. Like other tools, it provides real-time updates on the health and performance of your cluster’s objects plus related objects. This detailed metrics tracking is meant to simplify the debugging process and highlight problems before they become threatening. Building off of kubectl and kustomize, Octant is a simple and reliable tool for managing the Kubernetes system as a whole.