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.
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"It's easy to use."
"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."
"I like the monitoring 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."
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"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"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 scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"It is a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"It could be even more automated."
"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 logging functionality could be better."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"It could be more stable."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
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"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"The DSL could be improved."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"If you want to collect details of metrics, you should be able to write a query for it directly. I want the product to offer better queries for the metrics."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"Prometheus can be initially difficult for users since it has its query language, PromQL. The minimalistic interface is complicated to understand. They need to improve their interface so that users who don't know PromQL can also use it. You can only leverage the tool when you know PromQL."
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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 Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, 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, Amazon CloudWatch and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AppDynamics. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Prometheus report.
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