We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Google Cloud's operations suite is praised for its user-friendly interface, cloud logging feature, and technical support, making it the preferred choice compared to Prometheus. Although Prometheus is recognized for its flexibility and integration capabilities, users face challenges with its query language, setup process, and UI. Moreover, Prometheus relies on community support for customer service, whereas Google Cloud provides highly regarded technical support. Overall, Google Cloud's operations suite offers a more comprehensive monitoring solution.
"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."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"It's easy to use."
"We find the solution to be stable."
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"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"It is an efficient solution."
"The feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"It could be even more automated."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"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 could be more stable."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
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"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
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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 Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. 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 Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AppDynamics. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Prometheus report.
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