I've been evaluating JFrog Xray for our container security scanning needs, and we're leaning towards the SaaS offering to reduce ops overhead. But I need to be sure we aren't trading convenience for critical features.
From what I can gather by reading the docs, the core scanning engines for vulnerabilities, licenses, and compliance seem identical. However, I'm concerned about integration depth and data control. Specifically:
* **API and webhook parity:** Can I automate everything the same way? Our CI/CD (GitLab) and alerting (Slack, PagerDuty) are heavily scripted.
* **Database access:** With on-prem, I can directly query the Postgres DB for custom reports. Is there any equivalent data export or query API in SaaS?
* **Performance & regionality:** Are there latency considerations if our registry and build nodes are in a different cloud or region than the SaaS service?
For those who have used both, are there any "gotchas" or subtle differences in:
- Policy configuration and inheritance?
- The way scan results are aggregated or historical data is retained?
- The available integrations (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow)?
I'm hoping the SaaS version is truly a 1:1 feature match, just hosted. Our stack is mostly Go services, Python tooling, and we rely heavily on webhooks and REST APIs to glue everything together. Any insights from your own comparisons would be really helpful.
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