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Cortex

Developer portal specializing in service reliability scorecards, health insights, and ownership tracking.

Custom pricing — Contact sales (Core plan starts ~$2/dev/mo)

Cortex is an Internal Developer Portal platform that specializes in service reliability and governance. It provides scorecards for measuring and improving service maturity, health insights for monitoring service performance, and automated ownership tracking. Cortex integrates deeply with incident management tools, monitoring systems, and CI/CD pipelines to give platform teams visibility into service health and standards compliance. It is particularly strong in enterprise environments with strict governance requirements.

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  • Pricing: Custom pricing — Contact sales (Core plan starts ~$2/dev/mo)

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Features

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API Catalog

Documentation and discovery of internal APIs

API catalog with spec ingestion

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Cost Visibility

Track cloud costs per service, team, or environment

Cloud cost integration and per-service cost tracking

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Environment Management

Manage and provision development, staging, and production environments

Focuses on tracking, not provisioning

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Ownership Tracking

Automated tracking of service ownership and team responsibility

Core feature: ownership mapping and tracking

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Plugin Architecture

Extensible plugin system for custom integrations

API-based, limited plugin ecosystem

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RBAC

Role-based access control for developers and platform engineers

Enterprise RBAC with SSO and SCIM

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Scorecards

Measure and track service maturity and standards compliance

Core feature: comprehensive scorecards with rules

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Self-Service Actions

Developer self-service for provisioning resources

Actions with metadata enrichment

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Software Catalog

Centralized inventory of all services, resources, and teams

Catalog with service discovery and grouping

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Tech Docs

Documentation management integrated into the developer portal

Integrates with Confluence, Notion, etc.

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