Cortex
Developer portal specializing in service reliability scorecards, health insights, and ownership tracking.
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.
Features
API Catalog
Documentation and discovery of internal APIs
API catalog with spec ingestion
Cost Visibility
Track cloud costs per service, team, or environment
Cloud cost integration and per-service cost tracking
Environment Management
Manage and provision development, staging, and production environments
Focuses on tracking, not provisioning
Ownership Tracking
Automated tracking of service ownership and team responsibility
Core feature: ownership mapping and tracking
Plugin Architecture
Extensible plugin system for custom integrations
API-based, limited plugin ecosystem
RBAC
Role-based access control for developers and platform engineers
Enterprise RBAC with SSO and SCIM
Scorecards
Measure and track service maturity and standards compliance
Core feature: comprehensive scorecards with rules
Self-Service Actions
Developer self-service for provisioning resources
Actions with metadata enrichment
Software Catalog
Centralized inventory of all services, resources, and teams
Catalog with service discovery and grouping
Tech Docs
Documentation management integrated into the developer portal
Integrates with Confluence, Notion, etc.