We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product can be integrated with AWS very easily."
"The solution gives us very good real-time data."
"Our team finds it overall quite useful."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It's a very simple logging system."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is intrusion prevention."
"The detection is the most valuable feature."
"We use Amazon CloudWatch for logging."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"It's easy to use."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
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"The product should provide more features."
"There could be further enhancements through CloudWatch's partnerships."
"For monitoring applications or for APM, CloudWatch has some limitations. You cannot monitor application performance from CloudWatch, and you have to go for a third-party tool."
"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."
"The solution's integration could be easier for laypersons."
"The solution could benefit from a price decrease."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It could be even more automated."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"It could be more stable."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 26th in Log Management with 9 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and Nagios XI, whereas Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic and Grafana. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) report.
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