CA App Synthetic Monitor vs Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) comparison

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We performed a comparison between CA App Synthetic Monitor and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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  • "The cost could be lower."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product comes with expensive annual licenses. The product is very good, very reliable but it costs a lot. Barracuda offers the same kind of services at a lower price.
    Top Answer:If you are responsible for monitoring the logs in F5, it isn't very easy. The format is complicated compared to different vendors. For example, Fortinet and Cisco have feasible formats for sending and… more »
    Top Answer:If you are sending mail or browsing anything, you don't want to send your traffic without encryption. We use SSL for traffic encryption and ASM for SSL offloading. It is a proxy server for SSL. The… more »
    Top Answer:It could be even more automated. For instance, the moment you deploy something, the monitoring can be there for everything. You will just have to launch or click the console in the morning, and then… more »
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    Also Known As
    CA ASM
    Google Stackdriver, Stackdriver Monitoring, Stackdriver Logging, Google Cloud Monitoring
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    Overview

    IT organizations require full visibility into business-critical applications regardless of where they're hosted in order to maintain service levels and proactively deal with issues before the end-user is impacted. CA App Synthetic Monitor uses synthetic transactions to provide performance insight for these applications no matter where they're hosted: outside the firewall, in the cloud or delivered via a managed service provider (MSP). Delivered as software as a service, CA App Synthetic Monitor provides end-to-end transaction response time visibility into cloud, mobile and traditional web applications using synthetic transactions delivered by a network of 95 monitoring stations across six continents, 48 countries, 93 cities and 15 time zones.

    Real-time log management and analysis

    Cloud Logging is a fully managed service that performs at scale and can ingest application and platform log data, as well as custom log data from GKE environments, VMs, and other services inside and outside of Google Cloud. Get advanced performance, troubleshooting, security, and business insights with Log Analytics, integrating the power of BigQuery into Cloud Logging.

    Built-in metrics observability at scale

    Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud-powered applications. Collect metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud services, hosted uptime probes, application instrumentation, and a variety of common application components. Visualize this data on charts and dashboards and create alerts so you are notified when metrics are outside of expected ranges.

    Stand-alone managed service for running and scaling Prometheus

    Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring solution, built on top of the same globally scalable data store as Cloud Monitoring. Keep your existing visualization, analysis, and alerting services, as this data can be queried with PromQL or Cloud Monitoring.

    Monitor and improve your application's performance

    Application Performance Management (APM) combines the monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities of Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring with Cloud Trace and Cloud Profiler to help you reduce latency and cost so you can run more efficient applications.

    Sample Customers
    Lexmark
    Uber, Batterii, Q42, Dovetail Games
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    Comms Service Provider29%
    Financial Services Firm29%
    Energy/Utilities Company14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Comms Service Provider8%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise70%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    CA App Synthetic Monitor is ranked 46th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 3 reviews while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 21st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. CA App Synthetic Monitor is rated 7.0, while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of CA App Synthetic Monitor writes "A reliable solution for SSL offloading and to encrypt outside traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". CA App Synthetic Monitor is most compared with AppDynamics and Azure Monitor, whereas Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Grafana and Amazon CloudWatch.

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