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We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and SolarWinds Pingdom 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. SolarWinds Pingdom Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime.""The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS.""I like the monitoring feature.""Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well.""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.""It's easy to use."

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"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting.""Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time""There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work.""One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."

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Cons
"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.""It could be even more automated.""The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient.""Lacking sufficient operations documentation.""It could be more stable.""This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana.""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."

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"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI.""Technical support could use some improvement.""I would like to see better integration with other products.""Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."

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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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  • "This price of this solution is reasonable."
  • "The license was paid yearly and included technical support."
  • "While I wouldn't describe it as excessively expensive, if you require specific and reliable monitoring, SolarWinds can be a suitable option. The advantage is that SolarWinds offers a free version as well. If you don't heavily rely on its monitoring capabilities and are content with its basic features, the free version could suffice for your needs."
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    Questions from the Community
    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 »
    Top Answer:One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive.
    Top Answer:Some of the functions could improve by making them easier. There is room for improvement when it comes to the graphs provided by the software. Additionally, there seems to be an issue with the ping… more »
    Top Answer:SolarWinds Pingdom and Cloudflare are third-party applications that we utilize through a browser without any additional setup. We simply rely on their services, which is why I lack familiarity with… more »
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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.

    SolarWinds® Pingdom® is a powerful and affordable SaaS-based web app performance monitoring solution. It’s one product providing comprehensive web app performance and user experience monitoring consisting of four major capabilities:

    1. Uptime monitoring for webpages and other critical components like APIs, CDNs, DNS, networks, email, and more.

    2. Page speed performance monitoring and page rankings.

    3. Synthetic transaction monitoring from the simplest to the most complex transactions. 

    4. Real user monitoring (RUM), enabling a deeper and wider understanding of the user’s digital experience, and web application availability and performance. 

    Sample Customers
    Uber, Batterii, Q42, Dovetail Games
    Spotify, MailChimp, Slack, Twitter
    Top Industries
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    Comms Service Provider29%
    Financial Services Firm29%
    Energy/Utilities Company14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Educational Organization54%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Manufacturing Company3%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise70%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise70%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business11%
    Midsize Enterprise61%
    Large Enterprise28%
    Buyer's Guide
    Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. SolarWinds Pingdom
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. SolarWinds Pingdom and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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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 SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 47th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8. 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 SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Grafana and Amazon CloudWatch, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.

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