We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Microsoft System Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"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."
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"Many processes could be implemented out-of-the-box, and this helped to adopt processes in areas which we lacked."
"I like the automated features of it that let you schedule those updates and the ability of the product to focus on the specific updates, specific platforms, and products that we're interested in keeping up to date."
"The availability performance matrix and the reporting capabilities are the solution's most valuable features."
"The installation process is easy."
"System Center helps to create the basis for ITIL alignment."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ease of configuration and the easy discovery of the environment."
"Step-by-step documentation that clarifies the implementation procedure."
"Good for managing and administering the infrastructure."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"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."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"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 more stable."
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"The platform performance and responsiveness need improvement. It still demands high computing resources."
"Less server consumption would help, as would better, more flexible reports."
"The multi-tenancy support needs to be improved. We need to have the ability to manage several different environments from one central point of administration."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
"Could be more user friendly."
"The platform's performance could be improved. Additionally, its UI needs to be well-upgraded and work faster."
"Most of the documentation is online, however, there are some gaps there. The product documentation still refers back to the 2012 Server. We're pretty much in 2022. There's a ten-year gap there."
"We have some bugs but it's stable. It doesn't break every day. It works. Like other applications, it has a lot of bugs but they're manageable."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 24th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 9 reviews while Microsoft System Center is ranked 29th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 18 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while Microsoft System Center 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 Microsoft System Center writes "Makes user management and application management easy for users". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and New Relic, whereas Microsoft System Center is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Microsoft System Center report.
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