We performed a comparison between GitLab and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of GitLab is the automatic merging of code."
"The stability is good."
"The most valuable functionality of GitLab, for me, is the DevOps. Besides the normal source control based on Git, I find the Auto DevOps features most important in the solution."
"The code merging capability is something that we use very frequently."
"It is scalable."
"I find the features and version control history to be most valuable for our development workflow. These aspects provide us with a clear view of changes and help us manage requests efficiently."
"GitLab is very well-organized and easy to use. Also, it offers most features that customers need."
"We like that we can create branches and then the branches can be reviewed and you can mesh those branches back. You can independently work with your own branch, you don't need to really control the core of other people."
"It is fully automated."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting, which provides a good level of detail with respect to vulnerabilities."
"We can get detailed information about vulnerabilities."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is stable."
"We use the tool for our websites. We have a vulnerable subdomain. The tool helps to scan it for vulnerabilities."
"The solution's instant reports feature is the most effective for detecting threats."
"Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is very easy to use."
"We are having a few problems integrating with Jira at the moment, which is something that our IT department is investigating."
"We would like to have easier tutorials. Their tutorials are too technical for a user to understand. They should be more detailed but less technical."
"The solution should be more cloud-native and have more cloud-native capabilities and features."
"In the free version, when a merge request is raised, there is no way to enforce certain rules. We can't enforce that this merge request must be reviewed or approved by two or three people in the team before it is pushed to the master branch. That's why we are exploring using some agents."
"GitLab could add a plugin to integrate with Kubernetes stuff."
"GitLab's Windows version is yet not available and having this would be an improvement."
"Reporting could be improved."
"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."
"The reporting has a very limited customization capability."
"Tenable.io Web Application Scanning could improve by offering faster fuzzing."
"The technical support should be improved. Currently, some attacks are detected while others are not."
"They have a general dashboard for web application scanning, but the dashboards and reporting can be improved. They probably have some features in their roadmap."
"Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is not very user-friendly and you need a lot of information to get proper reports. The tool's support is not very responsive."
"The solution's dashboards could be improved and made more user-friendly."
"The report customization needs to be better."
"It would be great if there were a dashboard that is more user-friendly."
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GitLab is ranked 6th in Application Security Tools with 70 reviews while Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is ranked 24th in Application Security Tools with 14 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable.io Web Application Scanning writes "Highly Recommended Solution with Latest Scanning Methods". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is most compared with Acunetix, Qualys Web Application Scanning, Fortify on Demand, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. See our GitLab vs. Tenable.io Web Application Scanning report.
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