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

Google and NetWitness are both solutions in the Log Management category. Google is ranked #30 with an average rating of 8.0, while NetWitness is ranked #35 with an average rating of 8.0. Google holds a 0.6% mindshare in Log Management, compared to NetWitness’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of NetWitness users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

In the competitive landscape of threat detection and cloud monitoring, NetWitness Platform and Google Cloud's operations suite are key players. NetWitness seems to have an edge in pricing and support, while Google Cloud is seen as superior in feature set.

Features: NetWitness Platform provides detailed threat analytics, layered security capabilities, and is considered cost-effective with strong ROI. Google Cloud's operations suite offers seamless cloud integration, comprehensive monitoring tools, and strong cloud service integration.

Room for Improvement: NetWitness could enhance scalability, simplify deployment, and improve user interface. Google Cloud operations suite should improve third-party service integration, simplify navigation, and enhance user experience during transitions between tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetWitness offers flexible deployment but may be complex without strong support, which is generally prompt and reliable. Google Cloud's operations suite allows straightforward deployment with its cloud-native design, but responsiveness of customer service varies.

Pricing and ROI: NetWitness is known for favorable pricing structures, offering good returns on security investments. Google Cloud operations suite requires higher investment, yet its extensive features often justify the cost, potentially leading to higher ROI through advanced capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Google Cloud's operations s...

Ranking in Log Management

30th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (29th), Cloud Monitoring Software (20th)

NetWitness Platform

Ranking in Log Management

35th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (31st)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is 0.6%, down from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetWitness Platform is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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MOTASHIM Al Razi

CISO at One Bank Limited

It is a stable solution, but they should make the user interface easier to understand

The solution's initial setup takes work. We have to organize multiple paths and many features. The deployment process takes less than a week. But it takes a month to complete if we want to make the solution smarter by integrating it with various devices. I rate the process as a six out of ten.

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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

"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."

"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."

"Google's technical support is very good."

"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."

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

"I like the monitoring feature."

"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"

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"Offers a good wireless feature."

"NetWitness Platform offers flexibility for deployment and robust integration capabilities."

"The software is scalable to whatever is required, and you can also put a lot of resources in the cloud."

"What we are mainly using are the RSA concentrator, RSA Decoder, Archiver, Broker, and Log Decoder."

"It gives the capability for the incident response team to correlate logs to identify any kind of problem like malware and incidents in a general sense, both for logs and packets."

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

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

"Setting up NetWitness is straightforward. There are multiple connectors, including standard and specialized connectors. One purpose of the connectors is the enhanced capability integrate the custom applications. NetWitness comes with E6 appliances and application images that we use for the initial configurations and for the OS stack information. From there, you can consider the correlation rules, integrate the different log sources, and easily create correlation rules and backlog reports."

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Cons

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

"It could be more stable."

"The logging functionality could be better."

"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."

"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."

"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."

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"Lots of competing products have vulnerability protection built into their products, and this solution would be improved by including that support."

"The solution should have more integration capabilities with different platforms."

"The implementation needs assistance."

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

"The threat detection capability and centralizing and upgrading capability need to be improved. The threat alert capability needs to be improved as well because there is some lag time at present. They need to work on their database search too."

"Nowadays, their support is a little subpar compared to other solutions. I rate RSA support six out of 10."

"The log system is a bit complex and has room for improvement."

"We have encountered issues with unresolved crashes."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The cost of using Stackdriver depends on usage."

"The cost could be lower."

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

"The product price was reasonable for my region and the market."

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

"The licenses are good but the cost is very expensive."

"It is cheap."

"There is a licensing fee and the customer can choose whether he wishes this to be subscription-based or perpetual."

"It’s cheaper to run virtual machines in a VMware environment."

"We have a perpetual license, so the total cost of ownership is not very expensive. It's a good investment."

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Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at Deloitte & Touche

Feb 26, 2015

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Financial Services Firm

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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.

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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.

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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...

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What do you like most about NetWitness Platform?

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

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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.

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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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Comparisons

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Compared 26% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

Dynatrace vs Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Compared 6% of the time

New Relic vs Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Compared 6% of the time

Amazon CloudWatch vs Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Compared 5% of the time

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Splunk Enterprise Security vs NetWitness Platform

Compared 23% of the time

IBM Security QRadar vs NetWitness Platform

Compared 19% of the time

Elastic Security vs NetWitness Platform

Compared 12% of the time

RSA enVision vs NetWitness Platform

Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 9% 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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