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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) ![Ankush V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ankush V.") AV 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. What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you? Realtime Monitoring: we are resolving this issue of our cloud infra based on realtime inputs that we are getting from monitoring, it helps to identify RCA and solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite DT 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. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Aman A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aman A.") AA Aman A. Manager, Customer Success Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/15/2024 "One of the best platform" 4/5 What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability? I like its features like comprehensive monitoring, error reporting profile and the best part is integration with google that gives it good scaling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability? Nothing such as dislike, still exploring in the same Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps me to manage my data, scaling yo my processes. Maintaining the security patches as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![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.) 6/16/2022 "Great Dashboard" 4/5 What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability? All logs can be customized at one location and a custom dashboard can be created Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability? The Agent installation is necessary to monitor cloud components Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you? It supports most of the Google cloud components and error tracking logs are easy to read and easy to access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/28/2022 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/29/2020 "Stackdriver review" 4/5 What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability? The integration of Stackdriver with the platform and the fact that it's free with the account is a good start for monitoring and notification. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability? The lack of ability to automate creating of monitoring and notification of Stackdriver is painful. Manual configuration is time consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you? We're able to get early warnings of issues/errors on our platform. This helps us meet SLAs, Mean Time To Recover and other metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 12/29/2021 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Medical Practice](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Medical Practice") UM Verified User in Medical Practice Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/29/2020 "Extensively use Stackdriver for monitoring but more intelligence to the product would be great asset" 4/5 What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability? Notification channels, graph for different time periods and few daily used metrics which are basic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability? Log based metric creations with more smartness to filtering the logs and frequency estimation in a given time period frame Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability: Start with pre-defined metric system to get hang of how Stackdriver can be of use and then create custom metrics by using logs generated and play around for more custom-tailed for your company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you? Keeping a tab of the CPU utilizations to my nodes in GKE, Filestore disk space usage, PUB/SUB related. CPU Utilization helps identify the load and helps make decision if we need to switch to a different machine type or increase the nodes per zone (auto-scaling). Filestore free disk space helped us by alerting and a solution by migrating data to much cheaper resource like GCS bucket to store the info that is not immediately needed in the Filestore space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Suryansh R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Suryansh R.") SR Suryansh R. Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/22/2020 "Google Cloud Operations - Almost Perfect !" 4/5 What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability? Google Cloud Operations does a lot of things right, from perfectly integrated logging and monitoring to debugging, tracing and alerting Policies. However, the feature most Cloud engineers find most useful has to be the graphs and statistics provided by the service. Another unique and pioneering feature is multi-cloud integration that helps you integrate Cloud Operations for projects across multiple cloud service providers. Valuable insights can be quickly drawn, metrics can be created and analysed to understand the performance uptimes and downtimes of the service. Being a Cloud Security Specialist, my focus is also on security of the service and having used GCP for three years now I can confidently say that Cloud Operations is market leader in terms of utility and security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability? It is difficult to point out any glaring flaws, simply because there aren't any but if I have nit pick, I will say it lacks documentation on multiple cloud integration and the interface is a not very streamlined. Creating your own dashboard can be automated and Machine Learning can be used for creation of custom metrics. Key Performance indicators (KPI) should be easily configurable. While the service is solid in terms of logging and monitoring, some UI elements can be further improved to provide a rich user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you? Google Cloud Operations helps me understand key performance indicators that might be causing application downtime or lower throughput. In any case, it helps me quickly create relevant custom metrics and analyse the user behaviour. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Risheak C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Risheak C.") RC Risheak C. Senior Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/22/2020 "Very helpfull tool to monitor and visualize your cloud infrastructure" 4/5 What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability? The ease of integration with various tools and softwares. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability? Hard to define some custome metrics for some of the services and softwares. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability: I would recommend to use Stackdriver for monitoring and getting insights to your cloud infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you? We use it for all our cloud infrastructure monitoring on GCP. We have configured uptime checks for our applications, some alerting policies and have created some dashboards to look at the data from different segments of our infrastructure. Since we are on GCP, it is quiteb easy for us to start sending data from our VMs to stackdriver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Adeel T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Adeel T.") AT Adeel T. DevOps Engineer - Team Lead Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/4/2021 "Google Cloud operations" 4/5 What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability? The user-friendly interface of the monitoring tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability? Agent configurations were difficult to be done on a VM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you? Logging issues can be managed easily here Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Satnam S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Satnam S.") SS Satnam S. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/6/2021 "Stack driver is user friendly dashboard, efficient, filter option makes this dashboard unique." 4/5 What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability? The best part is the custom dashboard where we can create our own dashboard and use filters accordingly. Also, we can see the logs in the GCP, and lots of info is available on google Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability? UI is not richer as per other tools. Please work look and feel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you? We monitored our test and solved many performance issues through this tool. Also, GCP logs helped me a lot to analyze the issue at an app, node, pod level, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## 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.") 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