We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Splunk APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
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"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"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."
"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."
"It could be more stable."
"It could be even more automated."
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"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 24th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. 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 Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Grafana and Amazon CloudWatch, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Grafana. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Splunk APM report.
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