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Lens vs Komodor: What are the differences?
What is Lens? Open-source IDE to control your Kubernetes clusters. It is the only IDE you’ll ever need to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. It is a standalone application for MacOS, Windows and Linux operating systems. It is open source and free.
What is Komodor? *Kubernetes-native troubleshooting platform *. By providing a centralized view of all code, config & 3rd-party app changes across the entire k8s stack, Komodor offers contextual insights that help developers easily detect root causes, rapidly solve issues and innovate with confidence.
Lens and Komodor belong to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Lens are:
- Multi Cluster Management
- Multiple Workspaces
- Built-In Prometheus Stats
On the other hand, Komodor provides the following key features:
- Change intelligence - full view of all changes in your K8s system that shows you precisely who did what and when. This is invaluable for understanding exactly why something went wrong.
- In-depth visibility - complete activity timeline, including code and config changes, deployments, alerts, code diffs and more for easy drill-downs.
- Insights into service dependencies - this helps provide context for cross-service changes, visualizing the ripples across your entire system.
Lens is an open source tool with 20K GitHub stars and 1.14K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Lens's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Komodor
Pros of Lens
- Keep track of cluster changes4
- Easy management of multiple clusters2
- Open Source2
- Local installation, not SaaS1