ControlMonkey Reviews & Product Details

Cloud resiliency — ControlMonkey focuses on configuration, not just data. It captures how our cloud environment is actually set up, which means we can rebuild entire environments instead of only restoring individual pieces. That closed a gap in our disaster recovery plan that we didn’t fully realize existed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There’s nothing critical that we dislike at this point. Like any product, there’s always room for improvement, but overall it has been meeting our needs and the experience has been positive. When we first started, orchestration for configuration and data was missing, but that gap is now covered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like ControlMonkey's self-service experience, which provides a low code, no code experience for all our IT teams. It helps in seamlessly provisioning resources and codifying unmanaged resources into a managed state, removing the dependency on a core platform team. The integration with our standard tools like Terraform and GitLab is another highlight for me. The initial setup was also very easy, with seamless integration and onboarding of cloud platforms. Special Mention to Ori and Product teams who have been outstanding with their understanding and support to add new feature requests at lightning speeds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The IAM and the workflow options specifically for multistage approvals could be simplified. Also, the way things are organized could be done better, but I feel it has come a long way from where it started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ControlMonkey gives us significantly better visibility and control over our cloud environments.

Our DevOps team supports multiple internal teams, each with different infrastructure needs. We operate mainly on AWS, and most of our infrastructure is managed through Terraform, Terragrunt, OpenTofu, and Crossplane.

Before ControlMonkey, managing everything was more challenging. We had several Terraform codebases, different Terraform versions, and a mix of pipeline-based and manual deployments. It wasn’t always clear what had changed, where drift existed, or whether our environments were fully aligned with our IaC.

After onboarding our environments to ControlMonkey, we gained much better control. The drift alerts helped us catch changes we didn’t know were happening, including cloud provider changes, automatic upgrades, and limited manual changes in sensitive environments.

We also use ControlMonkey to manage GitHub repositories and configuration as IaC, which made repository creation and configuration more structured, consistent, and easier to govern.

Overall, the product simply works. Our cooperation with the ControlMonkey team has also been excellent—they’re responsive, practical, and genuinely care about our feedback and use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing major at this point. The product has been working well for our needs.

One area that could be useful for us is more flexible grouping of namespaces, especially as more teams and environments are onboarded. Overall, the core functionality is strong and the team has been very responsive to feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What stood out most was how smooth ControlMonkey made our migration from Terraform Cloud. They provided a migration script that let us complete the entire move in under two weeks — without interrupting any ongoing work. That kind of low-friction transition is rare.

The UI is genuinely easy to use. Navigation is intuitive, and the SSO integration with our Google IDP and Slack was straightforward to set up.

The team's responsiveness has been exceptional. We requested features we relied on in Terraform Cloud — like triggering build pipelines on commit and gating merges on pipeline success — and they delivered. They also built us a custom migration dashboard so we could track exactly which workspaces had moved over and which hadn't, giving us full visibility throughout the process.

On the technical side, support for multiple IaC runners (Terraform, OpenTofu, etc.) meant we didn't have to standardize our tooling just to use the platform.

We're now exploring ControlMonkey's Disaster Recovery capabilities, which speaks to how much confidence we've built in the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's nothing significant to call out. As with any platform migration, there were occasional rough edges early on, but the ControlMonkey team was quick to address them. A few of the features we needed weren't available out of the box, but they were responsive to our requests and delivered them faster than expected. Overall the experience has been smooth and continues to improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ControlMonkey helped us shift to Infrastructure as Code easily and swiftly while saving 80% of the migration time. Now we manage most of our AWS Infrastructure in a GitOps methodology through the ControlMonkey platform, with no ClickOps operations, saving countless hours of DevOps time for infrastructure provisioning and management.

Best of breed product for IAC automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing.really nothing.

Love the product, support and the feature released. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Extremely fast at delivering new backup features. If you’re using a third party that has a Terraform provider and you realize you don’t have IaC, no problem—get CM on their case and they’ll get you a daily backup of the entire vendor stack within a week or two. That’s amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The stored IaC is raw and not directly usable in its current form. It would be great to have a generic way to store module inputs instead, so that the backed-up IaC can be reapplied directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What used to take days now takes minutes, I feel confident working with them and suggest to customers their solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the biggest benefits for our customers is how much manual work it removed from recovery situations. Before, it depended a lot on who was available and what they remembered. Now they have snapshots and a clearer path to recovery, which takes a lot of pressure off the team when something goes wrong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have clear RTO for our Cloudflare/Datadog/etc.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At this stage, there isn’t much I can point to as a downside. It’s been working as expected, and we’re still exploring more of the capabilities as we g Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Many of our AWS networking resources were not managed with Terraform Code, leaving us with no easy way to roll back configuration when needed. ControlMonkey's Terraform Import Engine connected to our AWS accounts in minutes, and with a few clicks, we automatically generated the Terraform Code that represented our existing configuration. We now have a DRP for our networking architecture, and we also utilize ControlMonkey to identify drifts from our desired networking configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Currently supporting only Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt. I’d like to see them supporting more IaC Frameworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ControlMonkey was exactly the solution we were looking for to help us shift all our cloud accounts to Terraform. Their generative algorithm automatically generated the Terraform code for thousands of resources, and right before we knew it, we were managing and scaling our Infrastructure with Terraform. Rather than taking a few months, ControlMonkey completed the migration project in just a few weeks, and freed my DevOps time to work on other urgent projects. Further more, we absolutely love the support we get and the professional level of the team that are ready to tackle any challenges we encounter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Currently, for visibility, they only fully support AWS, which makes it a bit challenging if you're running multi-cloud. I guess they will expand their offering to Azure and GCP as well very soon Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.