# 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 **easy-to-use APIs and documentation** for Cloud Logging and Tracing, enhancing their experience. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **concise APIs and documentation** of Google Cloud Observability, enhancing their log management experience. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Google Cloud Observability's Tracing tools, aided by concise documentation and APIs. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users encounter **UX issues** with the trace viewer, making it challenging to interpret time measurements and manage traces effectively. (1 reviews) ## Google Cloud Observability Reviews ### 1. Versatile and easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam A. | Full Stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** I use mainly Cloud Logging and Tracing, and I like the provided APIs and provided documentation. They are very concise and easy to use. I like the filtering on the logging interface. Although I sometimes prefer to use the old UI (maybe due to habit) I like how easy it is to use Cloud Tracing together with OpenCensus. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Some things that I would like to see improved: Tracing for multi threading and asynchronous operations Maybe an improvement in the trace viewer. For example: - the first few times I could not wrap my head around the time measurement graphs) - the hide button for traces doesn't really make sense in how it works. It's shown on the same level as it's child elements, which sometimes leads me to hide traces I want to examine. I'd like to see a design where it is more clear if a trace is a child **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** I definitely recommend using this service. I have only AWS Cloudwatch to compare it to and I prefer Google. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** At X-Cite, we develop high performance microservices that need to handle a significant amount of data. Naturally these services need to perform well, ALL the time. So when things go wrong, we need to know where, what and why. Cloud logging allows us to log errors, debug info and other things in a clean way in the cloud with the ability to easily search and diagnose and resolve issues in our deployed microservices. Meanwhile, Cloud Tracing allows us to see bottlenecks and inefficiencies in detail. We use OpenCensus to interface with Cloud Tracing and this gives us great versatility in choosing where and what aspects of our service we want to trace. ### 2. GCP cloud operations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sandopu p. | Cloud Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Here the most important usage of GCP stack drivers is that we can get the metrics and logs of drives timely manner. That helps developers or engineers to have a track and find the issue if any by inspecting into the logs and metric spikes and application errors, and also while deployments as well. This has a continuous guard setup, continuous integration and delivery. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** The least I can say is that an engineer should have at least knowledge of the metrics and GCP basic a normal engineer will not be able to work on it **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Say in general, I have a problem with my application and I am not aware of how to troubleshoot because I want to know what exactly the error is and where I have gone wrong, whether in integration or configuration. This product helps me to track all the logs and info. ### 3. Seamless Cloud Management: Unveiling the Power of Google Cloud Operations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Afroz S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Google Cloud Operations (formerly Stackdriver) excels in providing a unified and comprehensive cloud management solution. Users appreciate its powerful monitoring capabilities, seamless logging and debugging features, flexible alerting system, user-friendly interface, and robust integration with other Google Cloud services. The platform's reliability and ability to offer a holistic view of cloud infrastructure contribute to its positive reputation among users. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** While generally well-received, some users have reported occasional latency in metric updates as a minor drawback. However, it's important to note that individual experiences may vary, and the platform's overall performance remains highly regarded by many users. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google Cloud Operations (formerly Stackdriver) solves challenges in cloud management by offering unified monitoring, efficient troubleshooting, proactive issue resolution, a user-friendly interface, seamless integration with Google Cloud services, and comprehensive cloud management. These benefits collectively enhance system reliability, accelerate issue resolution, and improve overall operational efficiency. ### 4. Single place for collecting all your logs for your Google Cloud Project **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Parth S. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** It supports wide variety of source to collect your logs from. All google cloud product have native integration with cloud operations suite. Apart from logs it also provides ability to trace and alerting features. It also provides simple to use destination selector which allow you to export log to multiple services. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Only downside of using Cloud Operations is cost. It charges you for amount of data ingested instead of amount of data stored. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows you to have single dashboard which monitor your complete google cloud project. It reduce time to response in case of any possible downtime or service disruptions. ### 5. Google cloud operation review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sampada A. | Bank relationship executive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** 1.Comprehensive Monitoring and Logging 2.Integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) 3.Trace and Profiling Tools **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** The cloud monitoring landscape is competitive and rapidly evolving. Some users might have desired a faster pace of feature development or more frequent updates to stay ahead of emerging trends and user needs. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security Monitoring: Problem: Detecting and responding to security incidents can be a significant challenge. Benefit: The platform includes security monitoring features, allowing users to track and analyze security-related events. This enhances the ability to detect and respond to security threats effectively ### 6. Best observability tool for gcp hosted workloads **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunil D. | Co-Founder, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Awesome and fast logging search with inbuilt histogram and attributes level count Support for complex query support for aggregation od metrics Built in dashboard for many famous work load like kafka elastic search mongodb etc makes it easy to start **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Google could agent takes lots of memories cpu overhead in services Lack integrations with many tools for alerting like Ms team etc **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralised observability for microservices running in kubernetes and other cloud provider ### 7. Personal experience on working with stackdriver. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saurabh S. | DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The ease to implement logging, monitoring and the vast number of customizatin features it provides is really awesome. It gets really handy in integrating with GCP, obviously both are inhouse products. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** I just faced one issue like I had to implement the logging manually. It doesnt have some scheduler like kind of thing to automate the process of implementing logging. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It basically provides an easy way to implement logging to monitor the performance data about sevices, basically applications. Thus making the process quite helpful to monitor our application and metrics as well. ### 8. Efficient and Scalable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankush V. | DevOps/SRE Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2024 **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. **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. **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. ### 9. Google Cloud Operations Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sagar J. | Cloud Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** 1.Comprehensive Monitoring 2.Logging and Error Reporting 3.User-friendly Interface 4.Integration with Google Cloud Services **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** While Google Cloud Operations Suite integrates well with other Google Cloud services, users working in heterogeneous environments or with non-Google services may face integration challenges. Compatibility and ease of integration with third-party tools could be areas for improvement. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing logs and tracking errors in a distributed system can be time-consuming and challenging. ### 10. Google Cloud Operations formerly Stackdriver **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darshan T. | Cloud Support Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Unified Monitoring and Logging, Integration with Google Cloud Services **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Complexity in Setup, Limited Customization **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. ### 11. One of the best platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aman A. | Manager, Customer Success, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2024 **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 **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Nothing such as dislike, still exploring in the same **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. ### 12. It was easy to use and with all the documentation. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** DIVYANSH H. | Business Intelligence Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Seamless connection and scalability of the architecture. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** None of hat I can understand think of. It is just wondering. Customer support is once part where Google can support us. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** To manage the scalability of the app. ### 13. It is very useful while debugging the issues in project. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** shashi kiran Y. | Senior Cloud Engineer , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2024 **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 **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Little betterment to UI when using the cloud console of GCP **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automotiing the cloud operation and cloud monitoring ### 14. Google cloud operations review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anurag P. | AWS Cloud Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Integrated monitoring, logging and trace managed service **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Log searching and filtering is slow sometimes **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease application monitoring ### 15. Google Cloud Operation review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Badrish R. | Cyber security professional , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2023 **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 **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Nothing as much. Sometimes it is bit slow to fetch the data. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes the monitoring and logging very easy and their customized reports and Widgets are super easy to understand. ### 16. Great Dashboard **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** All logs can be customized at one location and a custom dashboard can be created **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** The Agent installation is necessary to monitor cloud components **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 ### 17. Stackdriver review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2020 **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. **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. **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. ### 18. GCP Stackdriver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Monitoring client and server error rate with reliable information **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Nothing so far.. we are still in progress to understand the stack driver. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** Its a best platform to enhance operational experience **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Identifiying fraulent transactions through kubernetes ### 19. Performing application metrics analysis and problem detection in a simple and reliable manner. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Somesh P. | Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** It provide the 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. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Log searching and filtering is slow sometimes, sometime 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. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** I would like to recommend the stack-driver tool because it is easy to manage as everything at one page on google cloud console. It is fully managed and more scalable so, no need to worry to manage. It's available in all the projects at default level so, no extra efforts required. Log alerts are easy to setup and get notification on email or slack. **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 to manage. It's available in all the projects at default level so, no extra efforts required. Log alerts can be set for any string which occurred in logs and get alerts on mail, slack. As we are startup so it's easy to manage everything at single console. ### 20. Consolidated Monitoring for all cloud services Dashboard for DevOps and SRE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pankaj S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** My experience for GCP Statckdriver (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. **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. **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. ### 21. The one stop for audit and monitoring **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit J. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Very helpful to track down events and audit logs which helps pin point the problem. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Some time takes time to scroll the event logs, it could be faster. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps in creating log based metrics. Sink helps me focus on a set of logs and advanced filters further help narrowing down the problem ### 22. Google Cloud Operations Stackdriver **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Stackdriver lets you get logs of your application and infrastructure without coding or modifying the application. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Google doesn´t talk more about it; If you use some logs, there are different tools to get that. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** Before I used Stackdriver, I used other tools like Twitter Fabric and Firebase; Stackdriver is the next step. If you want to monitor your applications, you can get all your logs, all the events on your application. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool is to get all the status of your application; You can even get information about your application's hosting, so you don't need to access the application's SSH or Repo. I used this tool to get Events on the Application to set Custom status and custom events on the application. ### 23. Great tool to log and monitor cloud resources and applications. Very easy to use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ming H. | Full Stack Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** 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. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** 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. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Stackdriver to integrate with our applications' logging, so basically we want to be able to feel safe and have proper alerts from these logs in case something goes wrong, e.g. when a certain error message rate went above 3 times per hour, then we would create a customized alert to Slack, Pagerduty, or email, depends on different level of urgencies. Another problem we wanted to solve is to better monitor applications' usage and to test drive our new features with good logging and monitoring. ### 24. Extensively use Stackdriver for monitoring but more intelligence to the product would be great asset **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Notification channels, graph for different time periods and few daily used metrics which are basic. **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 **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. **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. ### 25. Google Cloud Operations - Almost Perfect ! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suryansh R. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2020 **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. **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. **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. ### 26. My feed back on the Google Stackdriver after using it on a large scale product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bilel Abderrahmane B. | Project Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The best part is the ability to authenticate from other services (wether on the same cloud of a completely different platform) which made the organization of the logs smooth and the connection with the BigQuery easy to make **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** When using third party libraries for the logging, it results in some errors whe 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 arround 2000 request per second during peak hours which resulted in arround 40 errors or so. so you can imagine having the monitoring screen looking a bit scary in the morning. So, i would reccomend using the Fluentd (the built in log support ) if you are hosting the entire solution on the Google cloud. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** The first problem was the debbuging and it was solver only the Stackdriver and the Winston js library The second problem was the collection of big data mainly for the maps related services. so, the combination was to use sinks to export the stackdriver data to a permanent location (BigQuery in my case). this data was consumed by one of the dashboards later. ### 27. Very helpfull tool to monitor and visualize your cloud infrastructure **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Risheak C. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The ease of integration with various tools and softwares. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Hard to define some custome metrics for some of the services and softwares. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** I would recommend to use Stackdriver for monitoring and getting insights to your cloud infrastructure. **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. ### 28. Everytype metric to run Operations in best way **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitin G. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** 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. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** When you enable Stackdriver logging for some metrics,the cost is sometimes can't be known properly. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** Native cloud logging for GCP. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring, Custom logging, SIEM integration, Security. All these are core components of operations day to day tasks and Stackdriver helps with all these. ### 29. Review of Google Cloud Operations (formerly Stackdriver) by Amit Yadav **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** 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. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Sometimes it takes a long time loading the filtered logs. I think this could be improved for a better experience. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Monitoring: We have been using Stackdriver to actively monitor logs from our applications. 2. Debugging: Along with the above, we use Stackdriver to trace changes done in the infrastructure (both manually and using automated pipelines). Along with this, the ease of reading the logs makes it easier to see what exactly is the issue with the microservice. 3. Error reporting: Using Stackdriver filters we send an alerts to multiple destinations like Cloud Pub-sub, Big Query etc and a monitor looks for a message to restart / takes necessary actions to fix the issues and get the applications up and running again. 4. System monitoring: This is also one of the most important feature of stackdriver that we actively use. Be it Google Kubernetes Engine Cluster or Google Compute Instance, we have custom metrics for these and use stackdriver to monitor the CPU, Memory and I/O usage and make necessary changes to the configurations if needed. ### 30. GCO review for stackdriver product **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** * 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. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** * Lag in showing the data on the dashboard is huge, for some products it even reaches 4m, which is highly unacceptable to business usecases. For example, compute.googleapis.com ingestion delay is 240s. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** * integration with existing GCP product is seamless, especially with kubernetes. Hence I would recommend using it. The only concern I have to the data ingestion lag is 1 minute to 4 minutes. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Stackdriver logging and monitoring to view the logs and monitor the service running on Kubernetes. Also, we have stackdriver exporter which pull the stackdriver metrics and ingest them into our inhouse monitoring platform as we want to have a unified interface for all the monitoring across all the service running in GCP. We mostly pull data for cloud sql and VPN tunnels. Stackdriver APIs really helped in having a unified interface for alerting and visulization. ### 31. Tool that Makes Life Easy for SRE and Operation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kishan K. | Associate Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2020 **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 **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 **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. **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. ### 32. Good Monitoring solution, which supports multi cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lincy V. | Cloud Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Support alerts and promotive support alerts and VM integrations **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** cost is a little higher as per market stands **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** cost training on customizing monitoring API and references etc ### 33. Google Cloud Operations Review (Stackdriver) **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2021 **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 **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** coming to logs it might take some time to find the older logs. the older logs need to be available all the time. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** The cost report for the service needs to clear. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** the best thing is that we can get the application reporting in a single place. that would be a great help. ### 34. Google Cloud operations **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adeel T. | DevOps Engineer - Team Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The user-friendly interface of the monitoring tool **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Agent configurations were difficult to be done on a VM **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Logging issues can be managed easily here ### 35. Excellent Monitoring tool. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vikram S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2020 **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. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Pricing confusion, Logging views, There was no option for streaming logs in new previews. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** SLO Alerting, logging, dashboards, Trace. ### 36. Intuitive and detailed **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pradeep Kumar P. | Chief Devops Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2021 **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 **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Sometimes the log ingestion and metrics pricing make us worry **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Detailed monitoring of infrastructure and logging. We mainly get advantage of Stackdriver with GKE and Tracing the application performance monitoring ### 37. Google cloud Operation monitoring Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The metrics and dashboard which is provided by the google stackdriver it's easy to created and simple to understand **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** It not providing that much logs related application when we install stackdriver agent on a cluster or on a VM machine **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** When are set upping the logging and monitoring using the stackdriver for our google cloud infrastructure and the application which runs on GKE. the benefits of using a stackdriver we can sink with and any storage or data warehouse services like GCS and bigquery. and it simple to create the dashboard and metrics ### 38. Stack driver is user friendly dashboard, efficient, filter option makes this dashboard unique. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Satnam S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2021 **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 **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** UI is not richer as per other tools. Please work look and feel. **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. ### 39. Cloud Developer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Type of metrics available by default, user friendliness **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Visualization of the metrics and alerting **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring GKE nodes/pods cpu and memory, service mesh level metrics, trace & span logs ### 40. Google Cloud operations has definitely made life easier u **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anil Manohar M. | Solutions Manager/Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2020 **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 dash board and alerts dashboard and notification has made life simpler for app, developer and monitoring team. **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 **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving us a single pane of glass to monitor application related infra issues or network or storage ones. Also, a real time alert mechanism was received which solved our business issue ### 41. Great way to analyze what's going on under the hood **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aliaksei A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** With Stackdriver we were able to set up a recurring report on specific GCP resource usage for monitoring purposes. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** It requires a lot of digging through KB's or an SME to share the tips (tribal knowledge) on certain parameters that one needs to use for getting specific search results. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the use cases for us was Google Access Transparency monitoring. No other tools but Stackdriver were adequate for this type of task. ### 42. It was great , easily configurable with docker **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Easy handling and configuration. Great help to analyse the servers **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Nothing as such. As per my usage I haven't been through any difficulties **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Server related issues especially to handle disaster management ### 43. GCO Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sal J. | DevSecOps Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** I like how you can easily find the information you require quickly and efficiently. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Occassionally, when there is too much information, it can be difficult and time consuming to find the exact information you need. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** Even though you should do your research, for google cloud platform workloads, hands down GCO is the go to. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** The power of data has enabled and empowered our teams to build better software. ### 44. Stackdriver or GC Opeations works good for most of the scenarios **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dheeraj R. | Senior Devops Site Reliability Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The monitoring is good. Few best features are graphs, collecting logs, multi-cloud integration **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Can't get to track round-trips/breakdowns of response times. Estimation of costs is also an issue. Integration for Kubernetes pods **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Setting up monitoring for Kubernetes pods was an issue. I had to enable sidecars and enable logging/monitoring aspect to report back to Stackdriver server wasn't so easy. Few benefits were out the door solutions provided like collecting few metrics when enabled. ### 45. One stop solution for all monitoring requirements in google cloud **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhawani Shankar P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Logs Dashboard. It has all the basic charts for a complete overview of the system. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Support for log query is not up to the mark. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralized logging of multiple applications. ### 46. Great monitoring option for GCP **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bryan F. | Startup and Sales GTM Advisor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** The query capabilities across logs is extremely fast and easy to use **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** The layout and design of the query dashboard could be better for testing **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** SaaS operation troubleshoot ### 47. It is a good inbuilt monitoring tool for your GCP **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** I like the health check option. And integration of it to email. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** I dont like how the graphs take time in loading. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** Its a good tool to monitor apps on cloud and make use of integrating the email and other notification tool like PagerDuty and Slack helps alot for this to work efficiently. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in monitoring and alerting our critical applictions ### 48. I m using gcp in our company and to see logs we are using stackdriver. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** I am using gcp and stackdriver from last two year and I am very much experienced with that. We can monitor our application health, traffic, error counts etc which is very useful to decide whether application is performing well or we need to look into this immediately to resolve any kind of issue which we observe during stackdriver stats monitoring. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** Sometimes I have seen that stats not updated property as compared to Grafana is doing better in that direction. Also UI interface can be better. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly we are doing monitoring using stackdriver and also seeing applications logs. ### 49. Using stackdriver for microservices logging **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Both implementation and integration with google cloud platform are quite simple. For maven project it just requires certain dependency. It adds a lot of default info in header. Comparing with Splunk I think stackdriver logging lookup in GCP is much easier and user friendly with graphic UI. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** At first we had hard time to find the logger location. **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provided us a very good logging management system which replaced our logger file system in server. That makes logger lookup much easier. ### 50. Google Stackdriver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?** Easy to use and create parameters and notifications **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?** The tool is very easy to use, I liked it at all **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:** Excellent tool **What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?** CPU performance was fixed, Network and bytes TX to check validation with top parameter ## 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?qs=pros-and-cons§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-18+07%3A04%3A55+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=c771df39-102d-4bf3-89ff-46b16b0f8670&secure%5Btoken%5D=268256357f3f043ffd05deb8da1a7b40bf56cf3cc9122a1257a00435f502c02a&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 (689 reviews) - [Azure Monitor](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-monitor/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (89 reviews)