We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Google Cloud's operations suite is praised for its user-friendly interface, cloud logging feature, and technical support, making it the preferred choice compared to Prometheus. Although Prometheus is recognized for its flexibility and integration capabilities, users face challenges with its query language, setup process, and UI. Moreover, Prometheus relies on community support for customer service, whereas Google Cloud provides highly regarded technical support. Overall, Google Cloud's operations suite offers a more comprehensive monitoring solution.
"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."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"
"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."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"It's easy to use."
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"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"It lets me proactively identify and resolve system issues. This, in terms of, most of the time, really reduces downtime. Because when there are notifications on time when we engage it quickly on time, our downtime is highly reduced. So basically, Prometheus is for monitoring and alerting."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"It is an efficient solution."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"The process of logging analytics can be improved"
"It could be even more automated."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"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."
"It could be more stable."
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"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"The scalability must be improved."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 27th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 10 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 8.0, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. 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 Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic and Grafana, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Apache SkyWalking. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Prometheus report.
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