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."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"It's easy to use."
"I like the monitoring feature."
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"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"It is a stable solution."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"It has good stability."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It could be more stable."
"It could be even more automated."
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"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"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."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"The solution should include online support."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 20th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 5 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 33 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while Grafana 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 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 New Relic, whereas Grafana is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, New Relic, Sentry and AppDynamics. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Grafana report.
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