# Google Cloud Observability Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Observability Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/observability-software) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 99 ## About Google Cloud Observability Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for applications on Cloud Platform and AWS ## Google Cloud Observability Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **concise APIs and documentation** for Cloud Logging and Tracing, making them easy to use. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **user-friendly APIs and concise documentation** of Google Cloud Observability for efficient log management. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Google Cloud Tracing, especially its integration with OpenCensus and clear documentation. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find **UX issues** in trace viewing, particularly with confusing time graphs and poorly designed hide functionality. (1 reviews) ## Google Cloud Observability Reviews ### 1. Plain and Simple, Easy to setup for a Cloud Operations tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Lot's of build in metrics for observability, Multi-cloud monitoring platform support. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** 1. The UI bit confusing, make more easy to operation friendly. 2. Support fees are 150 usd, it's too much 3. sometimes when we update check, it took 10 ~ 15 min to ingest data **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** Yes, I do. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Moved from nagios/onsite monitoring cloud base all in one system. ### 2. Consolidated tool for all your cloud platforms **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tuttu C. | Senior Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Filtering feature on the Logging interface. Easy integrations with other tools Multi cloud support **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Took some time to get used to it and the pricing is a little confusing. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to monitor application API calls ### 3. Easy Access to Logs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Stackdriver was great for easily finding logs and datasets that I needed to quickly access. Finding metrics by logs were a lot easier due to queries being saved, which is a big plus for query recipes/resources for new team members. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** At times it could be confusing due to nomenclature and the views that are provided can be overwhelming when first introduced to the platform. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Logs viewer, log metrics and exports are abundant and useful in analyzing data discrepancies or pulling data for reporting. The proactive alerting is also very helpful. ### 4. Very useful info, easy to use and friendly Logging and Monitoring tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Logs most of the useful information and easy to debug isues. Very description info **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Very very rare cases, capturing info takes some time. I faced this issue in couple of times, waited to see those log information. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some event related logging were very useful in debugging realtime system to found the root cause of the issue. It give right and useful information to fix some of my live issues. ### 5. One stop solutions for various features **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** As mentioned on title it's a one stop solutions for various features like monitoring and log management, where as in other cloud for the same thing 2 different features are there. It can be also used in other cloud service provider. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Graphical User Interface, what i feel is bit complex, once started using it become used too, but takes time to learn **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Log management, monitoring and performance monitoring ### 6. I used to monitor my GCP infrastructure and on-prem and it is fantastic to have such integrations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** It allows you to monitor not just GCP infrastructure but even resources outside of GCP. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** The interface it can be a bit tricky some times, when you want to find resources really quick **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** The UI experience could be frustrating at times **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed metrics, logging to be centralized and customer alert reporting based on logs. I realized that it can also include traces to detect latencies in my applications which is really useful. ### 7. Integrated and interactive monitoring tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prithviraj P. | Senior Enterprise Architect for Vodafone, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Integration with most of the GCP services. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Time related metrics and their calculation in monitoring dashboard. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** Go through the googl docs pages on cloud operations **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Resource monitoring and alerts ### 8. Helped in tracing performance issues & log reviews in debugging apps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The performance monitoring feature to alert & diagnose any key feature. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** it would be better to get stats based on log quereis, like some other SIEM's have **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** try to learn the concepts as the technical terms can be daunting for a non-stat person. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** web app performance monitoring and identifying bottleneck issues, & debug logs ### 9. Be patient with it **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hrishikesh B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Searching and Auto-complete on query search **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Load times are high. Also, the lag is high **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Alerting and Monitoring using custom metrics over logs ### 10. There are better softwares out there. **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Parsing and ingestion is fast, queries are simple and easy. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Bad User interface, lack of features, lack of in built graphical representation of metrics and dashboards. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** I would suggest using Splunk, datadog, and AppDynamics instead if stack driver **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Troubleshooting issues, application performance and errors. ### 11. Stackdriver logging Empowers customers toAnalyse, monitor and gain insights from data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Palak D. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Logging Feature, the detailed documentation . **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** There is no downside of using stackdriver **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analyzing boxes at run time Using pub/sub as broker ### 12. clean ui with all insights available **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** All the little details that stackdriver provide and the different ways to visualize those details are something that is really helpful. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** API integration is not straight forward which is sometimes can be a little painful to implement. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** We monitor our cluster and its nodes and we also get some useful insights about the cluster utilization and based on that we work on its optimization and cost reduction. ### 13. Is really nice with a lot of options to meet your business needs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** It gives option to create alerts based on application logs to do realtime monitoring. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Filtering of logs is difficult due to many default labels and logs **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to logs request, audit and application logs in stackdriver. Also creating alert policies on top of these logs ### 14. Get an overview of your health and performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** I like that I can see which parts of my app that's being the bottleneck. And that I can see how fast my app loads when everything is operating as planned. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** I don't have any dislikes about this product. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Overview ### 15. Great product to use and to find the anomalies in your cloud environment. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The way we can customize the time period and look for errors in specific timestamp easily **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** GKE logs are not easily accessible to users **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** VPN issues, VM issues, anything related to load balancers ### 16. Amazing experience with enterprise logs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Checking logs for everything at one place **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** The administration part is little confusing **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** Administration is little tricky and need patience in starting **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enterprise apps are running in GCP and we check logs for all apps. ### 17. Review of Stackdriver **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The Ui is very crisp and the dashboard helps to get the data cleanly **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** It would have been better if there were more integrations in place **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used it as a monitoring tool for our infrastructure ### 18. Stackdriver Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Functionalities provided by various tools like Logging, Monitoring, Debugging are amazing. Webhooks Functionality -Notify End users via Alerts is Amazing & use to use. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Lacking sufficient operations documentation. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Alerting Customer in case of any errors, Logs Analysis, Dashboarding ### 19. Monitor apps and projects with google Stackdriver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Available tools for monitoring are excellent and it is also set best examples of SRE. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Make it available for all kind of solutions **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I look for error, warning, designing self healing strategies and proactive monitoring. ### 20. Flexible data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raghuvaran K. | Project Manager - E-commerce Reliability Engineering, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Alert policy creation is pretty simple and easy to use. Creating new metric is also flexible and easy to use. log viewer, logs-based metrics, exports and log ingestion are great to use, Alert policy condition criteria list could have been better to use. In some scenarios we feel the criteria list is not helping much to meet our expectations. I'm able to detect issues in real time based on the alert policy that we setup and dashboards helps a lot to spot where the exact issue is like downstream system errors / high CPU / memory leaks, etc. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Alert policy condition criteria list could have been better to use. In some scenarios we feel the criteria list is not helping much to meet our expectations. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** Google provides excellent service and support to their customers and i highly recommend to user GCP and Google's other monitoring systems. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm able to detect issues in real time based on the alert policy that we setup and dashboards helps a lot to spot where the exact issue is like downstream system errors / high CPU / memory leaks, etc. Alert policy creation is pretty simple and easy to use. Creating new metric is also flexible and easy to use. log viewer, logs-based metrics, exports and log ingestion are great to use. Alert policy condition criteria list could have been better to use. In some scenarios we feel the criteria list is not helping much to meet our expectations. ### 21. It is easy and flexible for gcp environment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Easy configure alerts,metrics and notifications **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** It doesn't support all application level monitoring **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Alerting and notifications on gcp ### 22. Review of Stackdriver logging **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Easy querying of logs and Log views to control access **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Monitoring dashboard should be more customized **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralized Logging ### 23. Google Stackdriver is a great tool to invest learning in order to monitoring your projects. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian O. | Python Developer Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** What I like most about Google Stackdriver is the customizable dashboards you can create where it can compare different usages of different projects in a centralize enviroment. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** What I don't like about Stackdriver is the lack of support it has. What I mean by that is since it is fairly new you're not going to find the answers to problems you run into on forums. I think some of Stackdriver is still in beta so there isn't a real community of users that you can go to for answers and the only real source of help is the documentation. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems that Stackdriver is helping me with is notifying me when issue arise with client projects so that I can fix them before anyone calls in to complain. ### 24. Detailed Logger **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arvind Y. | Senior Associate, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** When we started working on the stackdriver it was initially bit difficult as not much of the information is available however by the time we found this tool as much easier to check for the logs. One more good thing about the stackdriver is the history it keeps. Once we have a query setup in it, it becomes very easy for it to operate. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** There is not much information available about the filtering and queries criteria. It should have more handy filters to be applied. Observed one more this is like sometime it crashes or doesn't show the proper records and we have to restart and login back in to check the records. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** this is very handy and easy to track tool. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** As mentioned above it is very handy for tracking the errors and logs for the any payment we submitted. ### 25. Very easy to use, yet powerful with deep metrics **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jackreece E. | Wolfram Ambassador, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** I found it very easy to use and setup. There are all sorts of deep and powerful metrics giving you great power when it comes to managing your resources. The dashboard is also well designed enabling you to rapidly deploy charts and the default sizing of the charts are great. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** I wish it were more deeply integrated into the GCloud ecosystem, more like a default. I think that signing in over and over again is kinda boring. Another issue I discovered was that there are lags in the charts. If things were more realtime it could be better. I would also prefer tighter integration so that it is available by default without any resigning. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** It is a great way to view all kinds of metrics about your cloud implementation. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helped me while I was studying GCloud with Qwiklabs. A great way to monitor resource usage and manage cloud investments. The biggest issue when using the cloud is resource management, Despite the power of the cloud if you are running on a tiny budget it is so easy to run out. But with good metrics software like StackDriver you are able to view metrics on literally everything going on in your system enabling you to make the proper allocation of resources and see exactly where you need to optimize with respect to your IT budget. ### 26. Pleasing but could be better in terms of features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The Ui is easy to follow and navigate through.It is multi cloud, but I have not used it. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** health check of VM's could be more real time There is no api to create stackdriver monitoring workspace direct export of metrics to gcs could be provided as an option. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had to provide system health metrics reporting for our clients for SLA requirements. We used to make api calls to timeseries api , store it in a gcs bucket and then export to bigquery. ### 27. Have been using SD for 3 years now. Its sometimes lag in data loading and sometime is good. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **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. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** The data loading problem, had to open in in-cognito mode very often. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** Its a good tool. Lags a bit but will be better with updation in controller. **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. ### 28. Great tool to get alerts on the instances **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nihit M. | Operations Analyst, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Quick to setup and can be easily applied across the project as well as an Individual instance as an when required. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Well there should be an option to copy alerts across projects. I couldn't find that option. Maybe its there but I couldn't find it. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** Try it and you will love it. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped me keep my services up and running close to 99% and keeping my customers happy :) ### 29. Is good, **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antonio G. | Technical Solutions Representative, Infrastructure, GCP, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** You can have all kind of metrics, graphs, notifications, dashboards, etc. Easy configuration. Better than other Monitoring system out there. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** It's good, but you can experience many issues, and the metrics could have a delay and also be approximate, very approximated, but not 100% exactly **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can have a control of my resources acorss all my projects. ### 30. Very good solution for monitoring and logging **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** I like simplicity and flexibility of solution. A lot of triggers, customizable dashboards **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Log aggregation might be better, there might be easier way to aggregate and analyze logs. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** Just implement it - it is very easy and have nice integration with other google cloud products **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are monitoring our application deployed to GKE. Benefits are integration, simplicity and flexibility. ### 31. Good for aggregating logs, easy to use if already on GCP, bad for metrics **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew W. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **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). **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. **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. **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. ### 32. simple to use and easy to configure for application logging. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Easy configuration to push logs from containerized applications, structured logging, easy and simple query structure to retrieve the logs. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Uptime checks can be made better performant, its takes considerably longer time to actually start checking after u define them. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are mainly using Stackdriver for pushing logs of our apis, so far its been very efficient and we troubleshooting time has considerably gone down by using logging and monitoring. ### 33. Google Stackdriver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Easily monitor, logging and diagnostic resources in Cloud GCP as well in AWS. Create custom metrics as per requirements easily. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** There are not much on solutions of some issue and taking time initially while creating metrics **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitor resources and in case of any weird behavior it triggers alerts and repair as per configuration ### 34. Pretty useful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Security and Investigations | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The time it takes for our events to be logged and alerted is really fast. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Nothing in specific. I don't have anything that I dislike. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** The ones who will use definitely benefit out of the service. Very critical in the present business market. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** GCP monitoring for our clients. ### 35. SRE/DevOps Engineer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** StackDriver is naturally integrated with Prometheus, my favorite monitor tools. We can easily transfer out existing monitor strategy to StackDriver. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** StrackDriver document and examples could be improved for the users. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google support team help us to enabled Stackdriver in GKE clusters. ### 36. Excellent tool to trace the issur **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** It is really easy to trace the issue very quickly **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** I have not seen anything which i do not like **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are logging application logs into stackdriver. And it is really easy trace and investigation the issue ### 37. Love it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew N. | Director - BI, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Love the amount of grain and information logged in stack-driver... I have yet to find anything that's missing and it can always answer my questions. Even better is the export ability into BigQuery for detailed analysis, reporting and automation. Thanks! **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** So far don't dislike anything... Everything is great! **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Auditing our use in BQ, cost analysis, and tracking activities in the cloud ### 38. Unified monitoring engine for AWS and Rackspace. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David G. | Network Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The service has a simple user interface and very good integration with a wide variety of workloads. Local variables and the call stack at a specific location in the source code can be captured as a snapshot, which applies to all running instances of the application. Snapshots can be shared with other team members via a URL. It collects application latency data and displays it almost in real-time on the console. It supports default metrics such as CPU utilization, disk I/O, memory usage, network traffic, and uptime. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** It is necessary to install an agent on each VM to monitor specific workload metrics. Developers integrating their applications with Stackdriver need to install the agent for the supported language. After installing the agent, it is necessary to install specific language plugins and modules. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** I would recommend the service based on the stackdriver monitoring, which is one of the key features of the service. Clients can create dashboards to track various metrics related to the virtual machines and the services deployed with them. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** The service can be used to investigate the latency affecting the application's performance. We can collect and store logs of workloads deployed both on the Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services. ### 39. Stackdriver Scope **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neeraj S. | Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The ability to attach multiple projects to a single workspace **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 **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Single Pane for 2000 projects ### 40. Stackdriver experience (a student and intern POV) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohamed Y. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** It's easy to use and enable, the provided metrics are more than enough in most of the cases, and it allows reporting new metrics if needed. It has a good interface and provides a nearly perfect alarming system. It is considered very cheap compared to the provided features. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** The provided API is not that intuitive, I needed to dig deep to know how to use and report custom metrics. It was painful at the beginning but afterwards, it became easy. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** If you want a strong cloud monitoring service with reliable notification and alarm system and good interface, then Stackdriver is the answer. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Right now, I am using some instances for machine learning and doing some exhausting training on them, so I wanted stackdriver to keep an eye for me and report any weird behaviour. Also, I used stackdriver while interning at Google, to do some load-test monitoring. ### 41. Great product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The stackdriver integrates with many of the other GCP products seamlessly **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** There are not much to dislike bur it could have been a bit faster. It takes time to load **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** We do all the monitoring on Stackdriver and have set up alerts ### 42. Great one stop shop for monitoring **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Facilities Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Integrates easily across the stack to enable enterprise level alerting and monitoring that is reusable and scalable **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** The only thing that could potentially be a disadvantage is getting the teams to use the solution across products **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enabled uptime monitoring and supporting defect resolution ### 43. Stackdriver is the single best log aggregator **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Convenient logging that provides deep, meaningful insights and is easy to export to other services. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Literally nothing - stackdriver is perfect. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stackdriver is the reason I have a job! Integrating stackdriver with our product has been a gamechanger. ### 44. Using it for GKE, DataProc logging and alerting **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Stackdriver's ease of use and the integration with the other google services **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Still needs to mature and provide same capabilities as splunk **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Logging and Monitoring ### 45. Stackdriver is developer magic **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sports | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Stackdriver is so simple to use but shows a ton of value. You don't need to watch a video / read about how to use it, you can just start using it and uncover where bugs lie. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** I wish I'd found out about it earlier as it is such a good tool. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Stackdriver to see what bugs are occurring in the application and to fix them quickly based on impact. ### 46. Good hybrid monitoring solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** It integrates well with GKE and also exposes google or aws metrics that may not be exposed by other means (e.g. prometheus) **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** The UI is sometimes slow to load and needs refreshing the page when it throws errors **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're monitoring multiple clusters and also do health checks on frontend UI to use it instead of pingdom and also funnel all prometheus data to it ### 47. Nice log aggregation platform with usability issues **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Easy to setup in all environments and native support in lost languages **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Kubernetes Integration is subpar. Usability of viewing and analyzing the logs is pretty bad as well, though this may be a side product of the former. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're able to track down exceptions and other things in a aggregated way. In the future this can lead to ML and other unrecognized opportunities for analysis of these logs it ### 48. Excellent Monitoring Solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Very easy to setup and works seamlessly with the Google Cloud Platform. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** The pricing model is a little confusing. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Google Stackdriver we now have realtime alerting with servers or websites go down. This has been invaluable to our business. ### 49. Awesome cloud monitoring/debugging application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ross B. | Engineering Productivity - Staff Software Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Stackdriver integrates natively with the google cloud products and makes it easy to diagnose issues with your service **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Good solution but not as great yet until it catches up with competitors **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trace, logging, monitoring, alerting ## Google Cloud Observability Discussions - [What is the best way to learn Stackdriver?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-way-to-learn-stackdriver) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Google Cloud Observability pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-observability/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-30+11%3A14%3A56+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7bcddbac-36ea-4548-90c1-1bec579e0f29&secure%5Btoken%5D=565ca51a5288deed3ce71d30a778b62a527321bebbb3eb37c003c06bbac369fa&format=llm_user) ## Google Cloud Observability Features **Monitoring** - Usage Monitoring - Database Monitoring - API Monitoring - Real-Time Monitoring - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring - Security and Compliance Monitoring **Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability** - Multi-Telemetry Ingestion - OpenTelemetry Support **Agentic AI - Observability Software** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Administration** - Activity Monitoring - Multi-Cloud Management - Automation - Auto-Scaling & Resource Optimization **Visualization & Dashboards - Observability** - Service Dependency Mapping - Unified Dashboard - Trace Visualization **Analysis** - Reporting - Dashboards and Visualizations - Spend Forecasting and Optimization **Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability** - Cross-Telemetry Correlation - Root Cause Detection - Intelligent Alerting **Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability** - Kubernetes Monitoring - Hybrid/Multi-Cloud Support **Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring** - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **AI Features - Observability** - Predictive Insights - AI-Generated Incident Summaries - AI Anomaly Detection **AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring** - AI-Powered Anomaly Detection - AI-Driven Insight Recommendations ## Top Google Cloud Observability Alternatives - [Dynatrace](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,231 reviews) - [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (694 reviews) - [Azure Monitor](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-monitor/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (89 reviews)