Google Cloud&#39;s operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs NetWitness Platform comparison

Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. NetWitness Platform

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Google Cloud's operations s...

Ranking in Log Management

29th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (25th), Cloud Monitoring Software (22nd)

NetWitness Platform

Ranking in Log Management

38th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (32nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is 0.6%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetWitness Platform is 0.3%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management

Featured Reviews

Anand_Patel

Senior Technical Architect at T-Systems International GmbH

Offers reliable Ops Agent and logging transport feature with easy third-party integrations

As part of our company, we implemented several changes in our log analytics pattern, including the storage and procurement process. Earlier, before implementing the solution, our company was able to procure only one year of data, but later, we came to the three-year mark. Around 15-20% reduction has been witnessed in the total analytic consumption of our company. The aforementioned result was possible because the solution allowed the creation of a dashboard where factors like storage costs, proportion of logs, and logs presence in a storage bucket or BigQuery can all be checked. Earlier all logs were stored in a raw storage, but currently our company is able to move logs in table bucket that contributes towards cost savings.

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MdZaman

IT manager at a agriculture with 10,001+ employees

Really scalable for enterprise customers

The solution should have more integration capabilities with different platforms. The API is nearly open and scalable, so the solution can integrate with many platforms. The solution has more than 200 log sources in the scalability to support, but this is its limit. Installation is pretty easy. However, there are a couple of modules involved, so it is not as easy as it could be. We are talking about a distributed module, not a single-module type. This is what makes things a bit complex, instead of easier. I rate it as a seven out of ten on its installation and configuration capabilities.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It's easy to use."

"I like the monitoring feature."

"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."

"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"

"Google's technical support is very good."

"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."

"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."

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"The most valuable features are its ingestion of logs and raising of alerts based on those logs."

"It's fully scalable. There is no limit. Of course, the license limits per day the number of terabytes. In my opinion, it's very flexible."

"Their technical support responds quickly and are knowledgable."

"The most valuable features are the packet decoder, log decoder, and concentrator."

"The most valuable feature is the hunting ability to work in a CERT."

"NetWitness Platform is valuable for creating rules that the solution must detect."

"In my opinion, the solution's most valuable feature is its capacity to monitor network traffic, logs from devices within the network, and network captures. This capability extends beyond logs to include full network capturing."

"The most valuable feature is the security that it provides."

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Cons

"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."

"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."

"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."

"It could be more stable."

"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."

"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."

"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."

"The logging functionality could be better."

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"The documentation is not as structured as I would like, personally, and I think that it can be improved and made much more user-friendly."

"The initial setup was complex because it takes a lot of time to complete the implementation."

"The initial setup is complex. There are other solutions that are easier to implement."

"The multi-tenant capabilities are lagging compared to IBM QRadar."

"I believe that integrating the solution with other products such as Oracle would be beneficial."

"The implementation needs assistance."

"The user interface is a little bit difficult for new users and it needs to be improved."

"If we have the ability to run a dynamic analysis through malware in the same suite, it would be great to have a sandbox solution to analyze malware through dynamic analysis."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost could be lower."

"The cost of using Stackdriver depends on usage."

"We have a basic standard license without any additional costs."

"We have yearly licensing costs. The license fee can be based on the volume of EPS. Some organizations may have, as a gentlemanly gesture, 10,000 EPS and get a 3,000 EPS license but actually use 5,000 EPS."

"It provides tools to assist in selecting the appropriate license and usage scenarios."

"In comparison to other SIEM solutions such as Splunk, NetWitness is less costly."

"We are on an annual license for the use of the solution."

"The NetWitness Platform may be affordable only for enterprise-level customers, as it may not be within the budget of small and medium-sized businesses."

"This is a pricey solution; it's not cheap."

"The tool is very expensive, so I rate the pricing a ten out of ten. The solution has an annual subscription."

"It is cheap."

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Comparison Review

Vinod Shankar

Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at Deloitte & Touche

Feb 26, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Government

Insurance Company

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Google Stackdriver?

If the errors are caught early in the interface, it would be easier for users to manage. The process of logging analytics can be improved.

What is your primary use case for Google Stackdriver?

I use the solution for logging, defining alerts, and monitoring. Our company's Java and Python logging teams mainly use it.

What advice do you have for others considering Google Stackdriver?

The Ops Agent and logging transport feature of the solution have had a major impact on improving application performance. The solution also allows the transport of logs into log buckets, which is h...

What do you like most about NetWitness Platform?

The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetWitness Platform?

The pricing is comparable to others, and I consider the cost to be intermediate. Specific cost details are unknown to me.

What needs improvement with NetWitness Platform?

There is currently no need for improvement in the SIEM ( /categories/security-information-and-event-management-siem ), though there could be potential enhancements by integrating with AI.

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Compared 27% of the time

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Compared 18% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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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.

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NetWitness Platform is an evolved SIEM and threat detection and response solution that functions as a single, unified platform for ALL your security data. It features an advanced analyst workbench for triaging alerts and incidents, and it orchestrates security operations programs end to end. In short: NetWitness Platform is all you need to run an intelligent SOC.

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Sample Customers

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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. NetWitness Platform