We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Splunk Cloud Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's easy to use."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"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."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"Google's technical support is very good."
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"This is a complete log reporting tool."
"I like the Cloud monitoring console feature."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's most valuable features are enterprise security and ticketing integration."
"Dashboards and alerting are the most valuable features. The dashboards let us see how the system looks in terms of anomalies, and the alerts trigger us to go and look at what possible problems are happening."
"I can trace an event back to its root cause. I can find the root cause instead of just looking at the symptoms across different things."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is its flexibility and readiness because it's already prebuilt, and everything is click-to-go."
"We haven't had any limitations or problems connecting to our network devices."
"Index manager is most valuable because we do not have to bother about internal storage. It is all managed by the Splunk team."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"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."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"It could be even more automated."
"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."
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"The dashboards should be easier to customize."
"The security connection should have a seamless integration. Other than that, the way we are using it, so far, it seems quite good."
"Although there is documentation available, it is really hard for me to find relevant topics on what it is that I'm searching for."
"There could be better searches, but mainly, it needs to improve the performance with a vast amount of data. That will make it better and easier to use."
"Splunk Cloud could improve by having pre-defined templates. It has very good design views, but there is no predefined template. You have to define your own. If they could add predefined templates for different use cases."
"Splunk Cloud Platform should improve its integrations and consider multiple integrations or direct integration with other platforms like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS."
"They can streamline the process of creating custom apps."
"In the case of knowledge objects, even a Splunk admin does not have access to delete them. If we want to remove a knowledge object, we need to contact Splunk support and raise a case. After that, they delete it. They should give us access to delete knowledge objects."
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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 Splunk Cloud Platform is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 34 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while Splunk Cloud Platform 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 Splunk Cloud Platform writes "Does not require backend maintenance, is easily integrated and utilized". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana, whereas Splunk Cloud Platform is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, AppInsights and Check Point Security Management. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Splunk Cloud Platform report.
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