--- title: Google Cloud Observability Reviews meta\_title: 'Google Cloud Observability Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 99 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Google Cloud Observability works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 99 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Monitoring url: https://www.g2.com/categories/monitoring --- # Google Cloud Observability Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Google Cloud Observability but has limited features. Are you part of the Google Cloud Observability team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for applications on Cloud Platform and AWS * * * Seller [Google](https://www.g2.com/sellers/google) Discussions [Google Cloud Observability Community](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-observability/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Ryan Jarouche Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 14 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-observability/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Dynatrace](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dynatrace") Dynatrace 4.5/5(1,366) ](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews) [ ![Datadog](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Datadog") Datadog 4.4/5(726) ](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) [ ![Azure Monitor](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure Monitor") Azure Monitor 4.3/5(108) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-monitor/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-observability/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 99 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/31/2020 "GCO review for stackdriver product" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability? \* integration with Stackdriver is smooth if we are using GCP products, it seamless and easy to view the data on default dashboards. \* Kubernetes default integration is out of the box and has real meaningful insights into workload monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability? \* Lag in showing the data on the dashboard is huge, for some products it even reaches 4m, which is highly unacceptable to business usecases. For example, compute.googleapis.com ingestion delay is 240s. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability: \* integration with existing GCP product is seamless, especially with kubernetes. Hence I would recommend using it. The only concern I have to the data ingestion lag is 1 minute to 4 minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using Stackdriver logging and monitoring to view the logs and monitor the service running on Kubernetes. Also, we have stackdriver exporter which pull the stackdriver metrics and ingest them into our inhouse monitoring platform as we want to have a unified interface for all the monitoring across all the service running in GCP. We mostly pull data for cloud sql and VPN tunnels. Stackdriver APIs really helped in having a unified interface for alerting and visulization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") AR Verified User in Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/19/2019 "Have been using SD for 3 years now. Its sometimes lag in data loading and sometime is good." 3/5 What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability? I like the uptime check of the SD and its integration with Pager Duty and Slack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability? The data loading problem, had to open in in-cognito mode very often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability: Its a good tool. Lags a bit but will be better with updation in controller. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps us in monitoring, alerting and dash-boarding. Its PagerDuty integration helps us in our on-call rotation and other alert integration works best like Slack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite MW Matthew W. Software Developer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/24/2019 "Good for aggregating logs, easy to use if already on GCP, bad for metrics" 3/5 What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability? Easy to collect logs from all Google Cloud services you use. Logs are kept in an archive for a very long time (if you can pay for it). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability? Searching through gathered logs is a bit slow. Metrics are not well supported. There is a limit to how often you can send a particular metric to Google, no matter how many processes you have running that would need to send the metric. So, you must create your own metric collection infrastructure so that you can buffer them and send the aggregate metrics periodically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability: Useful for aggregating and searching logs, but less useful for metrics. Other products like Datadog have better support for being able to easily send metrics from each process. With Stackdriver metrics, you need to aggregate them yourself because you can only send one metric every 5 seconds or so. If you have two microservice instances, that means sending the metrics to a dedicated microservice just to collect them and aggregate them so that between your entire system, the metric is only sent to GCP every 5 seconds or so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you? Knowing what's going on in each stage of our big data pipeline. Logs from different microservices are aggregated and we can search through them. It supports structured logging, so we can attach tags to the log messages like the Kubernetes pod or cluster it's running in, to more easily filter the messages to what we want to see. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite NS Neeraj S. Solutions Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/11/2019 "Stackdriver Scope" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability? The ability to attach multiple projects to a single workspace Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability? Limits on number of projects which can be linked with one workspace. Why can't it collect metrics which prometheus is providing, why we need third party products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you? Single Pane for 2000 projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") EI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/7/2019 "Using it for GKE, DataProc logging and alerting" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability? Stackdriver's ease of use and the integration with the other google services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability? Still needs to mature and provide same capabilities as splunk Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you? Logging and Monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ## Questions about Google Cloud Observability? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Google Cloud Observability ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-observability/discussions/new) GU Guest User What improvements would you suggest for Google Cloud Operations to better meet your monitoring needs? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-improvements-would-you-suggest-for-google-cloud-operations-to-better-meet-your-monitoring-needs) ![Brian O.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Brian O.") BO Brian Obmalay • Last activity over 6 years ago What is the best way to learn Stackdriver? 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-way-to-learn-stackdriver) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-observability/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 14 months ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-observability/pricing) Google Cloud Observability Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_b3390b4cc3d92e87d570895f7358c003/amazon-cloudwatch.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Amazon CloudWatch 4.3/5(404) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/amazon-cloudwatch-vs-google-cloud-observability) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_f176b4154a751d10150daa67a57b7dc5/azure-monitor.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Azure Monitor 4.3/5(108) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/azure-monitor-vs-google-cloud-observability) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_393746d0cdc8904473bde59b5858158e/datadog.png "Product Avatar Image") Datadog 4.4/5(726) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/datadog-vs-google-cloud-observability) ##### ##### Google Cloud Observability Features Monitoring Usage Monitoring Database Monitoring API Monitoring Administration Activity Monitoring Multi-Cloud Management Automation Analysis Reporting Dashboards and Visualizations Spend Forecasting and Optimization [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-observability/features) ##### Categories on G2 [Observability Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/observability-software)[Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring) ##### Explore More [What's the top-rated voice control app for office productivity](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-s-the-top-rated-voice-control-app-for-office-productivity)[Best AI video generation platforms for social media content](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-is-the-best-ai-video-generation-platform-for-social-media-content)[What is the best user-friendly password manager software for desktop?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-user-friendly-password-manager-software-for-desktop) [What is the most cost-effective log monitoring tool for SMBs?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-most-cost-effective-log-monitoring-tool-for-smbs)[Top SEO tool used by professionals for keyword research](https://www.g2.com/discussions/top-seo-tool-used-by-professionals-for-keyword-research)[Pros and Cons Details](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-observability/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)