# Google Cloud Trace Reviews
**Vendor:** Google  
**Category:** [Cloud Management Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-management-platforms)  
**Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 71
## About Google Cloud Trace
Find performance bottlenecks in production



## Google Cloud Trace Pros & Cons
**What users like:**

- Users appreciate the **exceptional customer support** offered by Google Cloud Trace, enhancing their overall experience and satisfaction. (1 reviews)
- Users value the **ease of use** of Google Cloud Trace, enjoying its user-friendly interface and quick implementation. (1 reviews)
- Users value the **easy access** of Google Cloud Trace, benefiting from its user-friendly interface and extensive support documentation. (1 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **ease of use and versatility** of Google Cloud Trace, enhancing their experience with sophisticated workloads. (1 reviews)
- Users value the **ease of implementation** with Google Cloud Trace, appreciating its user-friendly interface and comprehensive documentation. (1 reviews)

## Google Cloud Trace Reviews
  ### 1. It's really gives us comfort.very user friendly

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Diwakar D. | D, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

All features.Liked storage and smoothness of the functions

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

Nothing as such as I didn't find anything to be disliked

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

It saves the documents.Can access the documents anytime

  ### 2. good one

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

it is good for me as a developer to get to know about the trace and the time consumed by the process in development env.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

nothing, for now, any disliking features for the Google Cloud Trace.

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

yes, it is good for the complex query to know the trace of the execute time so it is good.

  ### 3. It's really good

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Priyanka D. | H, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

quick response, Deatailed Information with examples

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

Exacts search sometimes does not pop up.

**Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Trace:**

yes

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

Nothing like that

  ### 4. Awesome tool!

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Prateek C. | Campaign Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

I love the API connectivity and compatibility it offers.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

The tool exceeds the expectation, nothing to dislike.

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

It helps trace the latency and shows the performance on the console.

  ### 5. My observation on cloud trace

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

It is fast and automatic issue detection, and it helps to reduce time and human intervention.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

Everything is automatic, humans jobs are not secure.

**Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Trace:**

User friendly and quick support and help required.

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

It is language specific. Mostly people can use this and retrieve data from any source.

  ### 6. Favourite Trace Software

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

Excellent program to trace all actions, and comes with a free trial.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

There are no major issues that we do not like using Google Trace Cloud

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

The ability to connect everything from apps to websites to tracking using Googles integrations is so easy to use.

  ### 7. Great tool for viewing application latencies

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

Tracing in real-time with little or no overhead on application performance.
Simple navigation between trace view elements and logs.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

Report should be more detailed.
Pricing model could take a hit for a large scale application.

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

Helping me understand latency of requests and for debugging them. Direct navigation to logs is a plus.

  ### 8. It has been  great experience so far.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

Allows tracing in real time with no overhead and easy to set up.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

Till now, there is nothing like dislike. Has worked perfectly as per the requirements

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

It's ability to trace in real time is awesome. It is very helpful from the product pov.

  ### 9. Easy setup,for tracing everything

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Alternative Dispute Resolution | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

It very Cost optimizations and efficient improvements by the latest cloud services.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

I don't have anything to dislike. useful

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

The tool is very useful and very helpful for any business

  ### 10. Very helpful

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

Intuitive and convenient. Very easy to use.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

Sometimes it takes longer time than expected

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

It helped me solving CRM related problems. It helped in reducing operating costs. The productivity has gone up.

  ### 11. Google cloud trace

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

Distributed tracing,automatic issue detection

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

There is nothing to dislike about google trace

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

User friendly upi and effectiveness.

  ### 12. Great experience

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

With the google trace life becomes easy.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

I haven't disliked any from the google trace

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

Google cloud trace is an distributed tracing system that provides cloud storage,data transfer,

  ### 13. Google Cloud Trace Platform Review

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

We use Google Cloud Trace to perform performance bottlenecks analysis.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

The visualization can be improved. It can be made more user-friendly.

**Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Trace:**

Improve the visualization part.

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

Tracking performance bottlenecks and automatic issue detection.

  ### 14. Good

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

It is readily available and easy to use.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

Was not aware that it is available and can be used.

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

I could check my connection

  ### 15. Useful performance insights

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Andrejs S. | Translator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

Clear and easy to read interface with excellent insights that help you undertand your application latency data.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

I am happy with everything so far, no major issues occurred while using Google Cloud Trace.

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

Monitoring application latency data never been more convienient and easy.

  ### 16. Interesting cursus to get an overview of GCP products

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2021

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

Some of the labs give you a nice insight into tools and capacities

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

some other labs were very hard to finalize, due to bugs it seems in the validation process.

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

none I'm afraid, as I was not involved in any practical activity with GCP, just passed certificates

  ### 17. Google cloud trace is an effective tool under GCP

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2021

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

Google cloud trace provides the integrated capability to get complete insights for the business environments.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

Nothing at the moment. Only I would suggest Google may publicize more on its products.

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

At this stage, I have just started using it.

  ### 18. Using stack tracker currently

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Natalie R. | Owner/Sole properter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2020

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

At the moment i am still currently using it,it seems to do as claimed by the maker. It has easy to use almost effortless

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

I really havent found any dislikes as to im currently still ysing product but realky seens a very wonderful

**Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Trace:**

Give it try you will not regret it. Well worth the time and effort

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

I have relized that this app hel9s me teack personal data and track how my productivity is. It works seamlessly with other apps

  ### 19. Easy to pull traces for service performance at a reasonable price.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

Multi language supported.
Well documented.
I use java, the dep lib is not hard to set up.
Easy to switch different projects across the platform.
There are also alerting configuration based on the trace performance.
The price is reason able: $0.20/million spans	First 2.5 million spans free.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

Though it's not hard to set up the agent in the service code project, it will be even better if the 

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

We used trace to monitor the service API latencies and get a idea of how the server are running. And we set the alters for the scenario when something abnormal keeps happening.

  ### 20. Making it easier to find discrepancies 

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

While developing data flow processes, the trace helped us a lot in correcting the behavior of the process. The detailed information trace provided with clean UI is very helpful

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

Sometimes it gets too verbose and it can work against you 

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

We used it in Cloud Pub/Sub implementing to keep track of business data and some background processing 

  ### 21. Google Cloud Trace provides practical capability

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Trace?**

The integrated capability with others. While you can get insight about what is happening in your environment. It is good if you try it yourself. Comparing with other offerings in cloud market Google is good.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Trace?**

No really. If I have to say something I would suggest Google to enhance Google cloud trace API to get better popularity of its use for developers as well as system administraters

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

Monitoring application and runtime


## Google Cloud Trace Discussions
  - [What is tracing in Google?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-tracing-in-google) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
  - [How does Google Cloud trace work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-google-cloud-trace-work) - 1 comment, 1 upvote

- [View Google Cloud Trace pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-trace/reviews?page=2&section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+16%3A33%3A56+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ac170b71-6c32-43a2-8691-48f30b4587c6&secure%5Btoken%5D=89b7b00217609a780b8526a221a861dea0930780483502ccb1b4be14ad3c37cf&format=llm_user)
## Google Cloud Trace Integrations
  - [Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)](https://www.g2.com/products/google-kubernetes-engine-gke/reviews)

## Google Cloud Trace Features
**Operations**
- Scheduling
- Automation
- Multi-Cloud Management
- Usage Monitoring

**Functionality**
- Cloud Consolidation
- Cloud Orchestration
- Cloud Optimization

**Cost Optimization**
- Spend Forecasting and Optimization 
- Recommendations  
- Spend Tracking 

**Management**
- Cloud Cost Analytics
- Cloud Security
- Cloud Resource Management
- Cloud Backup and Recovery

**Administration**
- Reporting
- Dashboards and Visualizations 
- Compliance

**Agentic AI - Cloud Management Platforms**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Cross-system Integration
- Decision Making

**Agentic AI - Cloud Cost Management**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

## Top Google Cloud Trace Alternatives
  - [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (689 reviews)
  - [Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudwatch/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (360 reviews)
  - [Ubuntu](https://www.g2.com/products/ubuntu/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (2,316 reviews)

