
What is GitGuardian?
Secure your software development lifecycle with enterprise-grade secrets detection. Eliminate blind spots with our automated, battle-tested detection engine.
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89 Likeliness to Recommend
94 Plan to Renew
75 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+96 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love GitGuardian?
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Trustworthy
- Saves Time
- Respectful
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Feature Ratings
Public Monitoring
Container Security Testing
Infra as Code Security
Secrets Detection
Honeytoken (intrusion detection)
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) plug-in
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
Exploitability
Risk Scoring
Vulnerability Scanning
False Positive Remediation
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of IT Administration
Quality of Features
Ease of Customization
Availability and Quality of Training
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Implementation
Ease of Data Integration
Business Value Created
Vendor Support
Breadth of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
GitGuardian Reviews

Rajat S.
- Role: Public Sector
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2024
Effective secret detection
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitGuardian from other similar products?
GitGuardian is a valuable tool for developers and organizations looking to improve their code security posture and prevent data leaks. Its user-friendly interface, comprehensive features, and effectiveness in identifying secrets make it a popular choice.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Compliance support: Helps meet industry regulations and data security requirements. Automated remediation workflows: Streamlines the process of fixing security vulnerabilities
What do you dislike most about this product?
Limited free plan: The free plan has limited features and is suitable only for individual use or small teams. Pricing: Pricing can be a barrier for some users, especially for larger organizations.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
the pricing structure might be a consideration for some users.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Arghadeep D.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2024
A must have while using version-control
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitGuardian from other similar products?
As a rookie programmer, I frequently make silly git pushes revealing my API key. Sometimes, this small mistake can lead to loads of unwanted billing issues due to the revealed key, or it can get permanently deleted by the owner. GitGuardian comes in handy, as it always alerts me about these mistakes.Hence, I always use it, whenever I am working on any project. Another thing about GitGuardian is that it is very easy to use. Just integrate it with GitHub and it does it starts doing its job. The customer support is great as well.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The fact that I receive instant notifications of any API expose through my git commits, and also a severity rating of the expose (Critical, High, Low) is my favorite aspect of using GitGuardian. It allows me to prioritize my tasks and enhances my productivity of using GitGuardian.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Some times the alert emails can be too frequent. For non-critical API reveals , the alert emails' frequency can be reduced.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I will definitely recommend GitGuardian to anyone dealing with API tokens/keys and working on public repositories. It can save you from undesirable billing issues stemmed from that innocent mistake of unknowingly making a git push while not hiding the API key. This will save both time and money.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy

Kristijan L.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2024
The powers of git guardian
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitGuardian from other similar products?
Haven't tried others, I've been using this for 1.5years and am very proud.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The fact that I've made mistakes where I've exposed api keys a couple of times, and immidiately got an email by git guardian saying that I've exposed a secret. There is a great UI to work with, where you can say if it's a false positive, if it's resolved, if it's a secret but you want it public etc.
What do you dislike most about this product?
If I am not wrong, git guardian is fulfilling it's purpose. It's supposed to protect me and my secrets. I have no dislikes about it.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
#1 reason why you would try it, it's gonna happen sometime in the future when you're gonna leak some code and not see it. Then you would regret it. Better safe then sorry.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy