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Adam A.

Full Stack Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/18/2020

"Versatile and easy to use"

4.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 its 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.