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Learn more about teams and permissions"},{"section":"Alerting","feature":"Integration with ticketing systems","gitGuardian":"✅ Jira Cloud and Data Center, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, PagerDuty\n⚠️ Filtering by severity, validity, detector, or tag on Slack, Microsoft Teams, ServiceNow, and custom webhooks, rolling out to other channels","competitorValue":"❌ Not available","whyThisMatters":"Remediation happens in the engineering team's own workflow. Routing findings into the ticket queue or channel they already work from is what gets them fixed rather than acknowledged. 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Learn more about container scanning"},{"section":"Scanning of multiple sources","feature":"Other data sources","gitGuardian":"✅ Slack, Jira, Confluence, Teams\n✅ Public GitHub commits in real time and historically, public gists, and DockerHub image layers through Public Secrets Monitoring","competitorValue":"✅ Filesystem, S3, GCS, Postman, Elasticsearch, Hugging Face, Jenkins, stdin\n⚠️ Slack as a scan source is Enterprise only, though the open-source tool can detect Slack tokens; public web monitoring is Forager, an Enterprise add-on","whyThisMatters":"Credentials get pasted where work happens. A Slack thread, a Confluence runbook, a Jira ticket describing how to reproduce a bug. None of it is version control, and much of it is readable by more people than the repository was. 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Learn more about endpoint coverage"},{"section":"Monitoring perimeter","feature":"Bitbucket Server/Data Center – Instance level","gitGuardian":"✅ Native integration","competitorValue":"❌ Not supported","whyThisMatters":"Bitbucket estates are often the ones inherited through acquisition, which tends to make them less documented and more likely to hold old credentials. Instance-level reach earns its keep here. Learn more about VCS integrations"},{"section":"Securing the SDLC","feature":"Pre-commit","gitGuardian":"✅ Yes, via ggshield","competitorValue":"✅ Yes","whyThisMatters":"The cheapest secret to deal with is the one that never leaves the machine. A pre-commit check costs the developer a moment and prevents the incident. 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Learn more about custom detectors"},{"section":"Core detection capabilities","feature":"Sensitive file names","gitGuardian":"✅ Occurrences on likely-sensitive files are tagged automatically and feed severity and risk scoring","competitorValue":"❌ Not supported","whyThisMatters":"Some files are dangerous by name alone. A .pem, a credentials.json, a .npmrc committed by accident carries risk whether or not a pattern fires inside it. Learn more about how GitGuardian detects secrets"},{"section":"Core detection capabilities","feature":"Sensitive file extensions","gitGuardian":"✅ Covered by the same sensitive-file tagging","competitorValue":"❌ Not supported","whyThisMatters":"Extension-level tagging catches the whole class of key material, keystores, and dumps rather than waiting for a match on the contents. It is cheap coverage for a category that tends to arrive in bulk. 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Learn more about VCS integrations"},{"section":"Core detection capabilities","feature":"Detector activation/deactivation","gitGuardian":"✅ Yes, individually from the UI","competitorValue":"✅ Via CLI flags","whyThisMatters":"Not every detector earns its place in every environment. Turning off the ones that generate noise for your stack keeps the queue trustworthy, which is what determines whether anyone works it. Learn more about detector settings"},{"section":"Scanning of multiple sources","feature":"Git repositories (source code)","gitGuardian":"✅ GitHub, GitHub Enterprise Server, GitLab, Bitbucket Cloud, Bitbucket Data Center and Server, Azure DevOps, Gerrit","competitorValue":"✅ GitHub, GitLab, and any local git repository\n⚠️ There is no Azure Repos scan source in the open-source tool","whyThisMatters":"Most teams do not have one repository host. 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