Last updated: Nov 04, 2026
Very helpful to track down events and audit logs which helps pin point the problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some time takes time to scroll the event logs, it could be faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Stackdriver lets you get logs of your application and infrastructure without coding or modifying the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Google doesn’t talk more about it; If you use some logs, there are different tools to get that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like that Stackdriver provides really intuitive and clear data visualization for different metrics of the application. For example, when I was monitoring our messaging app's queue, with Stackdriver it's very easy to notice the pattern of how our app was processing these messages, and thus make it easy for me to notice if for example the queue got stuck or became way slower. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
When I was using it, sometimes it was not easy to share a certain metric or a certain view with other people. So maybe that part could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Notification channels, graph for different time periods and few daily used metrics which are basic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
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.
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.
The best part is the ability to authenticate from other services (whether on the same cloud or a completely different platform) which made the organization of the logs smooth and the connection with BigQuery easy to make. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
When using third-party libraries for logging, it results in some errors when there is a heavy load on it. I believe this is due to gRPC but I am not sure. The product I was working on had around 2000 requests per second during peak hours, which resulted in around 40 errors or so. So you can imagine having the monitoring screen looking a bit scary in the morning. So, I would recommend using Fluentd (the built-in log support) if you are hosting the entire solution on Google Cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The ease of integration with various tools and software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Hard to define some custom metrics for some of the services and software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Stackdriver is a great Logging and Monitoring product. You have inbuilt ingestion for default metrics or you can save your own. Once you have these in stackdriver logged we can do variety of action based on logs received. Send it to SIEM, Get alerts, Build dashboard etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
When you enable Stackdriver logging for some metrics, the cost is sometimes can't be known properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
1. Stackdriver has one of the best log filters in the market. This feature (along with sinks) can be used very effectively for monitoring microservices health.
2. Conversion of basic to advance search filter is also a good feature that reduces the burden of writing your own complex queries.
3. Stackdriver's log retention (default 30 days) along with sinks to cheaper storage is useful to store logs and make on demand queries in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes it takes a long time loading the filtered logs. I think this could be improved for a better experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
* 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.
* Lag in showing the data on the dashboard is huge, for some products it even reaches 4m, which is highly unacceptable to business use cases. For example, compute.googleapis.com ingestion delay is 240s. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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