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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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.

DIVYANSH H.

Business Intelligence Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/15/2024

"It was easy to use and with all the documentation."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Seamless connection and scalability of the architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

None of what I can understand think of. It is just wondering. Customer support is one part where Google can support us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

shashi kiran Y.

Senior Cloud Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/15/2024

"It is very useful while debugging the issues in project."

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Scoping of projects. Operations project will be the monitoring add the remaining projects as per SLI metrics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Little betterment to UI when using the cloud console of GCP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anurag P.

AWS Cloud Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 1/15/2024

"Google cloud operations review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Integrated monitoring, logging and trace managed service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Log searching and filtering is slow sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Badrish R.

Cyber security professional

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/19/2023

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Google Cloud Operation review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Google Cloud Operations makes the integration very easy to different GCP services to monitor and logging. It is very easy and customize features which are making it different from other cloud vendors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Nothing as much. Sometimes it is bit slow to fetch the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 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.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 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.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/3/2022

"GCP Stackdriver"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Monitoring client and server error rate with reliable information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Nothing so far.. we are still in progress to understand the stack driver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Somesh P.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/29/2020

"Performing application metrics analysis and problem detection in a simple and reliable manner."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

It provides real-time log analysis and log alerts. It is fully managed and more scalable. Log alerts can be set for any string which occurred in logs and get alerts on mail, slack. Best part about the stack-driver is that it's available by-default for all the projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Log searching and filtering is slow sometimes, sometimes need to wait for longer time to get the old logs. For compute engine monitoring, an agent needs to be installed in each VM's to monitor specific metrics. Only 30 days log data is available by default. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:

I would like to recommend the stack-driver tool because it is easy to manage as everything is on one page on the Google Cloud Console. It is fully managed and more scalable, so no need to worry about management. It's available in all the projects at the default level, so no extra efforts are required. Log alerts are easy to set up and get notifications on email or slack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is fully managed and more scalable, so no need to worry about management. It's available in all the projects at the default level, so no extra efforts are required. Log alerts can be set for any string which occurred in logs and get alerts on mail, slack. As we are a startup, it's easy to manage everything at a single console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pankaj S.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/13/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Consolidated Monitoring for all cloud services Dashboard for DevOps and SRE"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

My experience for GCP Stackdriver (Cloud Ops) is as per below:

1. Nice tool for a complete stack of cloud resources to look into for regular monitoring and Alerting.

2.Helpful for the SRE team for proactive measures with help of logging, alerting, and monitoring.

3. Helpful for understanding latency and performance for per deployed application in GCP

4. Freedom of storing logs in various storages i.e. buckets, big query, and easily integrable with our other monitoring tools i.e. Splunk, etc.

5. Agent-based configurations for non GCP resources but we still exploring to get the most out of it for our On-Prem, Azure workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

1. Its logging dashboard and runtime query needs to be improved, it needs to be more user friendly and faster to provide results.

2. No log elements level grouping which would be helpful to get the specific drill to drown to the logs insights by a single click (from already filtered logs).

3. SLO and SLI level definitions solutions seem not available for each GCP service. Should be an option to add any other cloud or on-prem resources as well.

4. Its slow based and also does not like load old logs vs newer logs. I mean it should load all events at once and should next page option if one needs to look into it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1. Logging and Alerting for our current productions workloads

2. Monitoring Dashboards for separate resources are helping our DevOps and SRE team both

3. Its tracing feature has helped us to identify which particular methods or code piece was problematic to fix.

4. We are able to get real-time alerts to our emails and slack channel with its automated alerting feature in time of application and infrastructure downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.