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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Kishan K.

Associate Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/12/2020

"Tool that Makes Life Easy for SRE and Operation"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

HealthCheck and Alerting Based on Metric is the Best Integration For GCP Stackfriver Tool. This Help us a Lot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Mail Option We can't make Dynamic Mail based on Log. Which would Help OP's Team to Not Dig Much Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:

Integrate Dynamic Mail Generation So Based on Metric or Name of Job Some Rule-based Mail can be sent so the operation team can be more specific after seeing the mail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Help to ShowCase SLO to Our Clients Using Metric, HelpOperation Team, and SRE to make the Development team to OP's Team Priority Properly in Dashboard which made your Process Smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lincy V.

Cloud Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/9/2021

"Good Monitoring solution, which supports multi cloud"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Support alerts and promotive support alerts and VM integrations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

cost is a little higher as per market stands Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 5/24/2021

"Google Cloud Operations Review (Stackdriver)"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

we can get logs metrics, and traces from your GCP resources. Dashboard creation is easy& simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

coming to logs it might take some time to find the older logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

Vikram S.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/21/2020

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

"Excellent Monitoring tool."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

The Cloud Operations (formerly Stackdriver) provides Monitoring, Logging, Debugging, Tracing, Profiling and Error Reporting all at one place.

It does not require me to have deep knowledge of system administrations.

I am confident that I would get notified, alerted if my application has an issue.

With auto integrated with Cloud Functions, Cloud Run and App Engine, I just need to use require libraries in Python.

Good thing is I can export the logs to BigQuery which can quickly query, aggregate or filter Terabytes of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Pricing confusion, Logging views, There was no option for streaming logs in new previews. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pradeep Kumar P.

Chief Devops Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/5/2021

"Intuitive and detailed"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Google Cloud Operations is great service to monitor cloud resources and very user friendly, the metrics are great and the UX makes for a excellent alarm system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Sometimes the log ingestion and metrics pricing make us worry Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/15/2020

"Google Cloud Operation Monitoring Review"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

The metrics and dashboard provided by Google Stackdriver are easy to create and simple to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

It does not provide enough logs related to the application when we install the Stackdriver agent on a cluster or a VM machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/30/2021

"Cloud Developer"

4/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Type of metrics available by default, user friendliness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Visualization of the metrics and alerting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anil Manohar M.

Solutions Manager/Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/20/2020

"Google Cloud operations has definitely made life easier u"

4/5

What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

An integrated set up which is also compatible with AWS also. This provides a single pane of glass to observe and monitor and act decisively based on the data inputs. Real-time dashboard and alerts dashboard and notification has made life simpler for app, developer and monitoring team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Initial learning curve is little high for someone who is not aversed with Cloud. However qwiklabs helps in the same Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.