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.
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"It's easy to use."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"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."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
More Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) Pros →
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"It is a stable solution."
"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 is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"It could be more stable."
More Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) Cons →
"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 would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
More Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) Pricing and Cost Advice →
Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 24th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 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 VMware Aria Operations for Applications. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Grafana report.
See our list of best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability vendors.
We monitor all Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.