Google Cloud Observability is used to monitor applications and cloud infrastructure by bringing logs, metrics, and traces together. It helps teams spot problems, investigate errors, and understand application performance.

What company sizes and industries is Google Cloud Observability the best fit for?

Google Cloud Observability’s positive experiences are most concentrated among small, mid-market, and enterprise organizations, with software and IT-oriented industries especially represented.

Company size: Mid-market teams are most prominent, with small businesses and enterprises also represented.
Industries: Computer software and information technology and services stand out, alongside computer and network security and telecommunications.

What customer support options does Google Cloud Observability provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

Google Cloud Observability’s support experience comes across as mixed rather than a consistent strength. Users raise concerns about the cost or availability of support and the effort involved in finding useful guidance.

What features or capabilities could make Google Cloud Observability even more useful?

Google Cloud Observability could be more useful with faster, clearer workflows for finding and working with operational data. The most practical improvements would be:

Speed up log search and retrieval, particularly when filtering or looking for older records.
Make the interface and query tools easier to navigate, especially for new users.
Expand integrations and simplify automation for alerts, dashboards, and metric setup.
Make cost reporting and usage estimates easier to understand.

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Adam A.

Full Stack Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Originally submitted 11/18/2020

"Versatile and easy to use"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

I use mainly Cloud Logging and Tracing, and I like the provided APIs and provided documentation. They are very concise and easy to use. I like the filtering on the logging interface. Although I sometimes prefer to use the old UI (maybe due to habit) I like how easy it is to use Cloud Tracing together with OpenCensus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Some things that I would like to see improved: Tracing for multi threading and asynchronous operations Maybe an improvement in the trace viewer. For example: - the first few times I could not wrap my head around the time measurement graphs) - the hide button for traces doesn't really make sense in how it works. It's shown on the same level as its child elements, which sometimes leads me to hide traces I want to examine. I'd like to see a design where it is more clear if a trace is a child Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:

I definitely recommend using this service. I have only AWS Cloudwatch to compare it to and I prefer Google. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

At X-Cite, we develop high performance microservices that need to handle a significant amount of data. Naturally these services need to perform well, ALL the time. So when things go wrong, we need to know where, what and why. Cloud logging allows us to log errors, debug info and other things in a clean way in the cloud with the ability to easily search and diagnose and resolve issues in our deployed microservices. Meanwhile, Cloud Tracing allows us to see bottlenecks and inefficiencies in detail. We use OpenCensus to interface with Cloud Tracing and this gives us great versatility in choosing where and what aspects of our service we want to trace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sandopu p.

Cloud Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/12/2024

"GCP cloud operations"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Here the most important usage of GCP stack drivers is that we can get the metrics and logs of drives timely manner. That helps developers or engineers to have a track and find the issue if any by inspecting into the logs and metric spikes and application errors, and also while deployments as well. This has a continuous guard setup, continuous integration and delivery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

The least I can say is that an engineer should have at least knowledge of the metrics and GCP basic a normal engineer will not be able to work on it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Afroz S.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/16/2024

"Seamless Cloud Management: Unveiling the Power of Google Cloud Operations"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Google Cloud Operations (formerly Stackdriver) excels in providing a unified and comprehensive cloud management solution. Users appreciate its powerful monitoring capabilities, seamless logging and debugging features, flexible alerting system, user-friendly interface, and robust integration with other Google Cloud services. The platform's reliability and ability to offer a holistic view of cloud infrastructure contribute to its positive reputation among users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

While generally well-received, some users have reported occasional latency in metric updates as a minor drawback. However, it's important to note that individual experiences may vary, and the platform's overall performance remains highly regarded by many users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Google Cloud Operations (formerly Stackdriver) solves challenges in cloud management by offering unified monitoring, efficient troubleshooting, proactive issue resolution, a user-friendly interface, seamless integration with Google Cloud services, and comprehensive cloud management. These benefits collectively enhance system reliability, accelerate issue resolution, and improve overall operational efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parth S.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/11/2024

"Single place for collecting all your logs for your Google Cloud Project"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

It supports a wide variety of sources to collect your logs from. All Google Cloud products have native integration with the Cloud Operations Suite. Apart from logs, it also provides the ability to trace and alerting features. It also provides a simple-to-use destination selector which allows you to export logs to multiple services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

The only downside of using Cloud Operations is cost. It charges you for the amount of data ingested instead of the amount of data stored. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sampada A.

Bank relationship executive

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Originally submitted 1/16/2024

"Google cloud operation review"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

1.Comprehensive Monitoring and Logging

2.Integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

3.Trace and Profiling Tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

The cloud monitoring landscape is competitive and rapidly evolving. Some users might have desired a faster pace of feature development or more frequent updates to stay ahead of emerging trends and user needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Security Monitoring:

Problem: Detecting and responding to security incidents can be a significant challenge.

Benefit: The platform includes security monitoring features, allowing users to track and analyze security-related events. This enhances the ability to detect and respond to security threats effectively Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sunil D.

Co-Founder

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/21/2023

"Best observability tool for gcp hosted workloads"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Awesome and fast logging search with inbuilt histogram and attributes level count

Support for complex query support for aggregation of metrics

Built in dashboard for many famous workloads like Kafka, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, etc., makes it easy to start Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Google Cloud agent takes lots of memory and CPU overhead in services

Lack of integrations with many tools for alerting like MS Teams, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saurabh S.

DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/16/2024

"Personal experience on working with Stackdriver."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

The ease to implement logging, monitoring and the vast number of customization features it provides is really awesome. It gets really handy in integrating with GCP, obviously both are in-house products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

I just faced one issue like I had to implement the logging manually. It doesn't have some scheduler-like kind of thing to automate the process of implementing logging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ankush V.

DevOps/SRE Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/15/2024

"Efficient and Scalable"

4/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

It provides a scalable and robust infrastructure to manage cloud services. It provides very good monitoring and logging solutions which is done on the realtime basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Cost management should be more forward, apart from that no other demerits I have about this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sagar J.

Cloud Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Originally submitted 1/16/2024

"Google Cloud Operations Review"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

1.Comprehensive Monitoring

2.Logging and Error Reporting

3.User-friendly Interface

4.Integration with Google Cloud Services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

While Google Cloud Operations Suite integrates well with other Google Cloud services, users working in heterogeneous environments or with non-Google services may face integration challenges. Compatibility and ease of integration with third-party tools could be areas for improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Darshan T.

Cloud Support Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/17/2024

"Google Cloud Operations formerly Stackdriver"

4/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Unified Monitoring and Logging, Integration with Google Cloud Services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Complexity in Setup, Limited Customization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Real-Time Monitoring:

Problem: Lack of real-time visibility into the performance and health of applications and infrastructure.

Benefit: Google Cloud Operations provides real-time monitoring, allowing organizations to detect issues promptly and respond proactively to ensure optimal performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.