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We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Honeycomb.io based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Featured Review
Nikhil Grover
Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities
It has reduced the amount of time that we would take for troubleshooting.
Anonymous User
A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues
Honeycomb.io facilitates the identification of service downtime by integrating with our logging endpoint in Splunk. We log the endpoint in Splunk,... Read more →
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Pros
"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.""It's easy to use.""The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use.""We find the solution to be stable.""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.""Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."

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"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."

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Cons
"It could be more stable.""It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost.""The logging functionality could be better.""The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient.""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.""This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana.""Lacking sufficient operations documentation."

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"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The cost of using Stackdriver depends on usage."
  • "The cost could be lower."
  • "We have a basic standard license without any additional costs."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Google Stackdriver?
    Top Answer:It's easy to use.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Stackdriver?
    Top Answer:This is a very cheap product.
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    What needs improvement with Google Stackdriver?
    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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    What do you like most about Honeycomb.io?
    Top Answer:The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team.
    What needs improvement with Honeycomb.io?
    Top Answer:The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team. It would be good if Honeycomb.io could integrate with third-party tools or paid… more »
    What is your primary use case for Honeycomb.io?
    Top Answer:There aren't any specific use cases for the solution as such. In our company, we use the solution for SLA and SLO-related work.
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    27th
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    3,836
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    5
    Average Words per Review
    274
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    7.8
    37th
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    2,808
    Comparisons
    2,464
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    414
    Rating
    8.0
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    Also Known As
    Google Stackdriver, Stackdriver Monitoring, Stackdriver Logging, Google Cloud Monitoring
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    Overview

    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.

    Many offerings tout observability. How is Honeycomb different? We have defined what Observability is and have built a tool to help modern Dev, DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering teams operate more efficiently. Because it’s all about delivering high quality code, maintaining reliability and getting precious time back.

    We made a critical decision to provide a seamless, current view of your system (from logs to events and traces) in a single data store, regardless of how complex your architecture is. This means you no longer have to toil with multiple tools or stitched-together solutions – burning time as you address issues affecting users.

    We also believe strongly that optimizing systems and debugging should not be difficult and draining, freeing up more time to ship new code. Our approach emphasizes efficiency and knowledge sharing, thereby elevating everyone’s game and ultimately business outcomes.

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    Comms Service Provider29%
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    Energy/Utilities Company14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Financial Services Firm22%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise66%
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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 Honeycomb.io is ranked 37th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while Honeycomb.io 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 Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana, whereas Honeycomb.io is most compared with Grafana, Sentry, Chronosphere and New Relic.

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