We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and NetWitness Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"It's easy to use."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"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."
"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."
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"The most valuable features are the threat prediction and network forensics."
"Their technical support responds quickly and are knowledgable."
"Offers a good wireless feature."
"The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult."
"It's quite economical compared to other solutions in the market."
"The development of use cases on the SSA console is quite user friendly. This means that the security analyst or the researcher does not have to learn another language."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that we can create our own connectors for any application, and NetWitness provides the training and tools to do it."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"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."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"It could be even more automated."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"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."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
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"The initial setup is complex. There are other solutions that are easier to implement."
"The product's licensing models are complex to understand. This particular area needs improvement."
"More customizability is required, which is something that they need to improve on."
"Security needs improvement."
"The log system is a bit complex and has room for improvement."
"We have encountered issues with unresolved crashes."
"There are instances where you try to run the reports and then it does not give you the desired outcome."
"Its technical support could be better."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 26th in Log Management with 9 reviews while NetWitness Platform is ranked 19th in Log Management with 36 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4. 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 NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana, whereas NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. NetWitness Platform report.
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