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.
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"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."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"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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"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"It is a stable solution."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"It could be more stable."
"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."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"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."
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"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
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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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