Mist Reviews

Excellent customer service & responsive leadership team, easy to setup, and supports many clouds

Would prefer a lower price, or a different pricing scheme. Per CPU can be expensive for cloud servers.

Mist enables support staff to manage cloud servers with fine grained permissions

Mist.io provides our team with a single unified interface to manage our cloud infrastructure across four different cloud providers. Thanks to mist.io, all our developers can provision & configure VMs across clouds at the click of a button, following fine-grained access rules and usage quotas. Machine usage & cost are automatically monitored, which in combination with other features like scheduled machine destruction, has enabled us to seriously cut down on infrastructure cost.

I'd really like to see deeper integration with Kubernetes.

This is a really great product with an extensive and diverse set of features. I highly recommend it. I think it's a must, especially if dealing with multiple clouds.

Mist.io brings many benefits, but for our team, the two most important are:

1. It provides us with a single unified interface across our multi-cloud and ever-evolving infrastructure. The amount of time and effort this saves can't be stressed enough.

2. Its extensive Role Based Access Control system, usage quotas, preconfigured scripts etc have enabled us to securely provide limited access to our multi-cloud infrastructure to our entire team through a unified and intuitive web app. This has been very helpful since it allows our team to self-serve their cloud computing needs according to access policies configured in mist.io without requiring the intervention of a sysadmin each time.

Easy to onboard and use, great support, RBAC on all resources.

I would like to see support for managing K8s clusters

Time-saver. Provision machines within 1 minute across various providers. Managed to keep cost under control. RBAC is also a feature I really like, as I do not have to create policies across various providers

instant scale up to multi-cloud providers

Can't recall anything that I dislike....

Moving into the cloud is a time-consuming process. In our case, we needed to access services from different providers to take full advantage of the hardware for our architecture. We saved dozens of working days by using mist.io while the team was very responsive and helped us hands-on when we needed. Really good support!

- Clear overview of my infrastructure

- I can make changes to my infrastructure with minimal effort

- Alerting has saved me several times from downtimes

- The notifications UI could use some polishing

Mist.io is a sophisticated product with diverse capabilities. Take your time exploring it's functionality. With a bit of searching, I was able to find most of the functionality I was looking for.

I'm managing devops for a series of EU projects, where each projects has it's own requirements in terms of computing. Infrastructure needs to respond to applications ranging from machine learning to robotics and automation. Mist.io saves me a great deal of time due to the structured way in which I can manage and adapt infrastructure to the needs of the projects. It also saves my researcher colleagues and my organization time and helps reduce costs, as it allows automating the lifetime of computing infrastructure in a granular way.

It's simple to use, but this simplicity doesn't come at the expense of powerful features supporting more advanced use cases. You can be up and running with your entire team in just a few minutes, without changing your existing workflows and without needing an 8-hour webinar to get things going.

User docs need some improvement, but support was helpful and responsive.

Mist is ideal for managing hybrid setups with multiple teams needing controlled access to specific subsets of it. You can give it a try and see for yourself in less than ten minutes.

We use Mist to manage our infrastructure on-prem (VMware vSphere on bare metal) and on public clouds (AWS, Azure). Having to deal with 3 sets of tools and workflows was draining our energy and we moved slowly. Now, we have a unified experience across the board, deployments are more automated and a lot faster. Mist also saved us the headaches of enforcing policies for controlling costs. For example, we can automatically turn off VMs every night and/or clean up unused VMs periodically.

Onboarding is simple and in a few seconds you know what you have, where and how much it's costing you. It's also simple to use, even for non-experts. You can set up policies that allow everyone to safely provision resources, in a self-service way, within minutes

The CLI is not fully there. Needs further improvements

It's a user-friendly and powerful tool that allows you to manage multicloud infrastructure. It's ideal for enabling self-service provisioning. The barrier to entry is low. As you grow and look for more advanced workflows the tool can grow with you. Their support is very helpful.

We manage our research lab infrastructure across public and private clouds from one panel. Our team members can quickly provision resources in a controlled way. We don't worry about surprises at the end of billing cycles. The tool has helped us reduce public cloud bills by ~30% thanks to the various automations it offers.

Supports more than just the mainstream cloud vendors.

Inherant with any docker based application - but sometimes the app will need a restart due to some undefined issues.

The platform provides management and visibility of multi-cloud environments. Mistio enables full coverage of all assets regardless of cloud provider, with its support for many of the VPS providers.

As a company with many different teams, using Mist.IO, you can easily configure and set up machines per team to manage.

Whenever we require assistance from Mist support, the response is always speedy. They explain to you what must happen/ or why something is not working and they make sure that you understand why this happened. We've had nothing but good support from Mist.IO over the years.

We use Mist.IO alongside other tools as well. For the purposes that we are using Mist.IO, I can't think of anything that I dislike.

Mist.IO is a handy tool to have.

Developers requiring servers to be switched on/off for testing purposes have control to do that easily. We, as Shoprite Mist.IO administrators, don't have to get involved as much.

VCenter like experience for KVM with support for hybrid cloud environment .

Hypervisor management could be a little more robust. Would like to see available security updates for installed packages, and log management of hypervisor /var/log files so they can be viewed and included in machine rules. Finally, from a formatting standpoint it would be nice to have a hierarchial view of machine -> parent -> cloud relationships.

Easing our transition from VMWare Hypervisors to KVM while having the option to include cloud resources.