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All Quiet vs CrowdSec
A side-by-side editorial comparison of All Quiet and CrowdSec — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
All Quiet vs CrowdSec: at a glance
What is All Quiet?
All Quiet moves from enterprise integrations to the on-call engineer's own day.
All Quiet is an incident management and on-call tool. Three releases on 28 September rebuilt the on-call calendar with effective and detailed views and overrides from any cell, added recurring snooze windows per integration plus detection of incidents that resolve themselves quickly, and introduced a personal on-call dashboard with shift summaries and noise metrics. Before that, August and early September added scoped API keys, Salesforce and Jira two-way sync and webhook rate-limit alerts.
What is CrowdSec?
CrowdSec's 1.8.2 candidates let operators write their own bot fingerprints.
The bot detection introduced with 1.8 is now being opened to customization. The 1.8.2 candidates add custom JavaScript fingerprinting, a cscli bot subcommand and a FlagSubmission helper, and rc2 adds a RateLimit helper for the WAF plus a cookie option for embedded contexts. Operational work runs alongside it: a cs_features metric, optional limits on concurrent decision streams and TLS certificate reloads.
All Quiet vs CrowdSec: editorial side-by-side
All Quiet
0.0INFRA · APIS
All Quiet moves from enterprise integrations to the on-call engineer's own day.
◆ Current state
All Quiet is an incident management and on-call tool. Three releases on 28 September rebuilt the on-call calendar with effective and detailed views and overrides from any cell, added recurring snooze windows per integration plus detection of incidents that resolve themselves quickly, and introduced a personal on-call dashboard with shift summaries and noise metrics. Before that, August and early September added scoped API keys, Salesforce and Jira two-way sync and webhook rate-limit alerts.
◆ Where it's heading
The summer work targeted buyers: access control and integrations that larger organisations require. The September work targets responders: less noise, clearer schedules and a view of one's own shifts. Noise detection for auto-resolving incidents is the most consequential piece, since it turns alert fatigue into a metric teams can act on.
◆ Prediction
Expect noise metrics to feed into suppression or routing rules, since detection without action is the obvious next gap. The feed has no entries after 28 September.
CrowdSec
5.0INFRA · APIS
CrowdSec's 1.8.2 candidates let operators write their own bot fingerprints.
◆ Current state
The bot detection introduced with 1.8 is now being opened to customization. The 1.8.2 candidates add custom JavaScript fingerprinting, a cscli bot subcommand and a FlagSubmission helper, and rc2 adds a RateLimit helper for the WAF plus a cookie option for embedded contexts. Operational work runs alongside it: a cs_features metric, optional limits on concurrent decision streams and TLS certificate reloads.
◆ Where it's heading
The WAF remains the center of gravity, and the direction is programmability. RateLimit, SkipProcessing and the fingerprinting hooks give rule authors primitives rather than fixed behavior. The LAPI changes point at larger deployments, where decision streaming puts load on the central API.
◆ Prediction
The final 1.8.2 is dated 26 October on GitHub, though it has not reached this feed yet. Whether fingerprint data ever joins the community blocklist remains unanswered in these notes.
Alternatives to All Quiet and CrowdSec
Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either All Quiet or CrowdSec.
Apache ShenYu
ShenYu's AI gateway plugins are back in motion, with 2.7.2 candidate tags in October.
TestingBot
TestingBot's autumn work is plumbing: a rebuilt tunnel and another bug-tracker link.
KubeArmor
KubeArmor ships fixes as release-candidate tags, and its feed misses the finals.
Robusta
Robusta's recent releases patch its runner image rather than add features.
Uptrends
Uptrends spent October on account plumbing: vault credentials, bulk edits and a free trial path.
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Recent activity from All Quiet and CrowdSec
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 10d agoCrowdSec1.8.2 rc2 adds a WAF RateLimit helper and decision stream limits
- 19d agoCrowdSec1.8.2 rc1 adds custom JS fingerprinting for bot detection
- 1mo agoAll QuietIntegration Snooze Windows and Auto-Resolved Noise Detection
- 1mo agoAll QuietPersonal On-Call Dashboard and Team Activity Metrics
- 1mo agoAll QuietOn-Call Calendars: Interactive Overrides, Timeline Views, and Schedule Controls
- 2mo agoAll QuietWebhook Rate Limit Alerts and Diagnostics
- 2mo agoAll QuietJira Integration: Precise Field Mapping and Safer Two-Way Sync
- 2mo agoAll QuietPublish and Unpublish Comments
- 2mo agoCrowdSec1.8 rc2 tunes the bot-detection challenge, hardens acquisition
- 3mo agoCrowdSecCrowdSec 1.8 RC adds WAF bot detection and a Kubernetes datasource ⚡
- 6mo agoCrowdSec1.7.8 RC: OpenAPI schema validation in the WAF
- 7mo agoCrowdSec1.7.7 RC: flexible WAF rule conditions and RE2 by default
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between All Quiet and CrowdSec?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. CrowdSec is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is All Quiet better than CrowdSec?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. CrowdSec is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to All Quiet?
Top All Quiet alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "All Quiet alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/allquiet for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to CrowdSec?
Top CrowdSec alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "CrowdSec alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/crowdsec for the full list with editorial commentary on each.