Full Software Distribution Pipeline
What do you like best about the product?
I don’t know anyone who offers distribution, access, multi site replication at a single place.
What do you dislike about the product?
Artifactory Service would go down with no notice couple of times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use it store JAR to containers, Python and NodeJs modules at one place only. Artifactory is very helpful.
One of the best Artifactory that i use as a Devops Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
me as a devops engineer where i need to store, manage, and serve build artifacts and dependencies in DevOps and CI/CD workflows. and JFROG is the best software that i have used. must recomended
What do you dislike about the product?
the UI has two many options it might be overwhelming to new users
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
JFrog helps me keep all my build artifacts organized in one place, which makes my deployments more consistent and reliable. Before, we struggled with version mismatches and slow builds — now everything is traceable and cached, so it saves us time and reduces headaches. It also makes it easier to promote builds between environments without rebuilding from scratch
DevOps
What do you like best about the product?
JFrog Artifactory provides a centralized, reliable, and scalable solution for managing artifacts across all stages of the software development lifecycle. I especially appreciate its support for multiple package types, seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines, and robust REST APIs that enable automation and DevOps best practices. The addition of JFrog Xray for security and license compliance is also a major advantage for maintaining secure and compliant releases.
What do you dislike about the product?
While JFrog offers powerful features, it can be complex to set up and manage, especially in multi-environment or hybrid cloud setups. The user interface, though improved, can still feel unintuitive at times. Additionally, the pricing model may not be cost-effective for small teams or organizations with basic artifact management needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
JFrog is solving the challenge of managing and securing software artifacts across multiple teams and environments. It provides a centralized repository for storing Docker images, Helm charts, and other build artifacts, ensuring consistency, traceability, and version control across the CI/CD pipeline. With JFrog Xray, it also addresses security and license compliance by scanning artifacts for vulnerabilities before deployment. This improves our software delivery speed, strengthens security posture, and enhances collaboration between development and operations teams.
Once again, JFROG has totally tanked my artifactory account
What do you like best about the product?
When it works, its OK. Reasonable integration with gradle.
What do you dislike about the product?
They keep changing policies, pricing, features --> mostly trying to drive you to pay them more money.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sharing JAR files with all our teams and outside vendors
JFrog as a handy DevTool Platform for devops
What do you like best about the product?
I started using it as an artifact managing platform in my early dev days, it proved to be a well handled usecase in that manner. And very recently explored it's other offerings like end to end CI/CD & security while working on more infra & devops like tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
The release bundle distribution management seemed a bit complex, however it becomes easier with time & getting more familiar with the processes by doing it a couple times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The security offerings & artifact management are our primary usecases of having JFrog in place to manage it.
Jfrog Review
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to manage because Jfrog provides centralised repository for my artifacts. As I am a devops engineer it helps me in integrating with CI/CD tools also and the implementation is also easy and it supports wide range of packages and it is good in scalability and also highly avaialable making it suitable for my complex projects. I frequently use this tool in my daily working life.
What do you dislike about the product?
Jfrog user interface can be more user friendly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping me by storing my all artifacts at one place and also It has multi-cloud support and It is very efficient to use as container registry in using CI/CD pipelines for automation. This tool helps me in daily working with maintaining the artifacts.
Jfrog review by Jannatul
What do you like best about the product?
Best about Jfrog is security of its platform due to which I feel most secure platform to store the artifacts.
What do you dislike about the product?
Least helpful if you want to use it as CICD tool compared Gitlab. Dislike about is the pricing model
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Problems solved by Jfrog is software packaging and sharing the artifacts with the end user in most secured way
Manageable, regular updates, and core functionality worked fine
What is our primary use case?
The main use case was to store the artifacts, store the binaries, basically. And then we used it as a container registry as well.
One of my tasks was to get X-ray running. I got the product running and tested it, but users never really started using it. So, from the user perspective, I don't really know how much they used X-ray.
What I can say about X-ray is that it did what Artifactory advertised. So, from that point of view, in my opinion, it worked fine, but we never really got to use it too deeply. We never got enough requests from our customers, the developers, or the security management team to implement some checks or block downloads from Artifactory, even when the software is too old or has some vulnerabilities.
That was a disappointment for me because I worked on the installation and management of X-ray for a couple of months. But that's not something that X-ray is responsible for.
How has it helped my organization?
For me, Artifactory was just a system that I needed to maintain, install, update, and back up.
What is most valuable?
I was an administrator of Artifactory, the person who manages the software. For me, it was manageable and stable. The upgrades were coming regularly, and the documentation on how to upgrade the system was clear.
Then, when we had to implement certain customizations because of the way our networking is set up, it could get messy. But with the help of support, we got it working. Sometimes, the database got corrupted or something wrong happened, and then we needed support. In most cases, they were able to help us and sort it out.
So far, the software worked fine. There are some other products like Artifactory Insights that provide some level of monitoring and management and graphs of utilization.
What needs improvement?
Sometimes the documentation was sort of messy because there are many possibilities for where and how to install Artifactory. So sometimes, I got a little bit lost, and it wasn't very clear which path in the documentation to take. But when I tested things and could just follow the manual, that was working fine.
Sometimes the UI was not working as expected. Users were complaining that they didn't see their Artifactory, but they had to clear their browser cookies or something. It was just the browser taking some information from the caches of the user's PC. So sometimes, this can be better. The UI could get laggy; maybe because our environment reached its limit. We had a large number of assets. It could take time for all the artifacts to load.
If there could be some better features for me, it would be being able to upgrade Artifactory directly from the UI. I think that is something that JFrog maybe offers with the cloud solution, but I don't know. For some reason, we still use the standalone on-premise solution. Maybe that version doesn't provide this functionality.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've worked with Artifactory for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
For the most part, it's pretty stable. We had some performance issues. Sometimes, users complained that it was slow, especially with replication. We upload the artifacts into a central Artifactory that then replicates the artifacts to our other networking environments. Sometimes, it may be slow because of our network.
Sometimes, it seemed to me that something was happening in the architecture itself that was making this process slow. Either it was maybe some kind of Artifactory process running in the background that slowed down this replication process, or, at times, I had this kind of feeling that I don't know why it's not replicating that Artifactory. And I wasn't able to really tell the user what was happening. It was mostly with the container images. Sometimes, it seemed that the container image was not replicated completely. You can see the container image in the other location, but the container image consists of several parts. And for example, one or two parts were missing. So then, the user was not able to download the container image and to really use it. So there were cases like this, and we had to basically delete the artifact in the affected location and try to replicate it again. I think, if I remember correctly, we were solving this issue with support.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have piles of data in there. We put lots of data into just one Artifactory. There were several millions of artifacts and terabytes of data, like hundreds of terabytes of data, on the file system.
We used three or four virtual computers to run the software and utilize the load, and those machines handled it fine. So, from this kind of point, it was okay.
But from the manageability point of view, I would probably do it differently. I would probably split the data into several Artifactory instances because of backups and such things. So, from the scalability point of view, it was scalable.
How was the initial setup?
We had developed some Ansible scripts that deployed Artifactory. I don't remember it exactly, but I guess they were sort of using the solution that JFrog provides. They have some Ansible scripts. So, I think we used those scripts to some extent and then modified them to our use case. That's the way we deployed Artifactory with Ansible scripts.
I came to an almost ready solution that was done by my colleague. I tweaked a little bit here and there depending on the changing requirements, like from the security team that told us to install certain firewalls or antivirus software. So, there were not any significant challenges to using those scripts.
From my point of view, the maintenance aspect is not difficult. Doing the backups or updates usually worked fine.
What other advice do I have?
I personally would probably recommend it. For me, it did what it did well, or at least that was my feeling from it. So, I would recommend it.
Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.
Best for Artifact Storage
What do you like best about the product?
It was very easy to implment the Artifact storage solution for our Docker products and NPM packages. We had a seamless integration and migration from Artifactory to Jfrog.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing was not transparent initially and initially we expected more help from the customer support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fast Storage and Retrival of Packages.
Security analysis along with the Artifact Storage.
JFrog Artifactory User Review
What do you like best about the product?
Jfrog's interface is very user-friendly and it is much reliable to securely store and distribute binary files. The tracking and versioning along with its robust security measures enhanced our workflow efficiency.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features are bit complex to set up initially and their pricing is bit higher comparitively. Some advanced features requires higher resource, so it is affecting the system performance in large scale environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps me to organize and manage our software files more efficiently and it enhances security to our files with JFrog we can control who has access to what it ensures our software is safe.
