Hi everyone, I'm currently evaluating our artifact management and security scanning stack. We're consolidating several services into a single monorepo on Artifactory (cloud), and I'm trying to justify the added cost for Xray.
Our setup:
* Single monorepo with 50+ microservices (mix of Java, Node, Go)
* Multi-stage Docker builds are the norm
* Currently using Snyk for container and dependency scanning, but it's a separate pipeline step
* We need compliance reports (like SBOMs) for audits
The promise of having security, license, and compliance scanning natively integrated into the Artifactory pipeline is very appealing. However, the pricing for Xray seems to be on top of our existing Artifactory subscription, which is a significant jump.
My main questions:
* For those using Xray with a monorepo, how well does it handle deeply nested dependencies across many different package types? Does scan performance become an issue?
* How does the vulnerability database and update frequency compare to dedicated tools like Snyk or Trivy?
* The "watch" and "policy" features seem powerful for auto-failing builds. In practice, is this robust, or do you end up with too many false positives that block deployments?
* From a cost-benefit perspective, did you find the integration and workflow unification worth the premium over stitching together separate, cheaper scanning tools?
I'm particularly interested in the operational overhead. Managing one vendor vs. several has value, but only if the core scanning is at least as good. Any insights or gotchas from your own evaluations would be really helpful.