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."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"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."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"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."
"It's easy to use."
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"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"We like the alert features."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The solution has good features."
"It could be even more automated."
"It could be more stable."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
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"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"The solution should include online support."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
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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 Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 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 eG Enterprise. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Grafana report.
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