We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Grafana based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users prefer Google Cloud's operations suite over Grafana due to its cloud logging, user-friendly interface, and ease of setup. While Grafana is customizable and flexible, it lacks in data aggregation, reporting, and machine learning capabilities. Additionally, support for Grafana varies, while Google Cloud's operations suite has highly regarded technical support. Companies have seen a positive return on investment with Google Cloud's operations suite.
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"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."
"It's easy to use."
"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."
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"It is a stable, reliable product."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"The solution has good features."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"We like the alert features."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"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."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It could be even more automated."
"It could be more stable."
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"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 27th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Prometheus, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and eG Enterprise. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Grafana report.
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