We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and SolarWinds NPM 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."It's easy to use."
"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."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"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."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"We find the solution to be stable."
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"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"The other valuable system is the DSS (decision support system). If there's a fault in the network, SolarWinds is basically capable of rectifying and resolving that problem on its own without any intervention from an IP assistant or administrator."
"The set up was very easy. We didn't have any problems with the setup. The deployment took less than an hour."
"Provides a good level of tools and covers essential components."
"Reporting tools are a great feature along with the ability to create customized reports for you"
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"The benefit of this solution is the reporting. We're able to report on and see our network in a graphical form. We are able to detect when a device is added to a network."
"The interface is user-friendly, making it easy to use."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It could be even more automated."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"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."
"It could be more stable."
"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."
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"The interface could be made more user-friendly."
"I would like to have a Syslog server module for this product. That would make the solution better."
"It would be good to have high security."
"Technical support can be slow to respond."
"The solution does not offer much customization so is somewhat inflexible."
"The reporting is good, but I want it to be a little easier when creating custom reports. The reports are all on the website now, but it takes some know how to get some to display the way you would like."
"SolarWinds needs to be improved such that it is on par with the leading products in the market."
"The integration with video apps could be better."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 24th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 9 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 6th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. 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 SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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