Google Cloud&#39;s operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs USM Anywhere comparison

Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. USM Anywhere

Download the complete report

Helped 869,760 peers since 2012

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

30th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (28th), Cloud Monitoring Software (21st)

USM Anywhere

Ranking in Log Management

40th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

115

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (29th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (53rd), Compliance Management (14th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 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 USM Anywhere is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver)	0.6%
USM Anywhere	0.5%
Other	98.9%

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.

Read full review

Kris Nawani

Co-Founder/Director at Bangkok MSP Company Limited

Offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software

USM Anywhere is used for threat detection and investigation. It provides a solution with built-in threat intelligence and various other investigation tools The solution offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software, as it is maintained by the vendor. It helps in saving…

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

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

"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."

"We find the solution to be stable."

"I like the monitoring feature."

"Google's technical support is very good."

"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"

"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."

More Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of deployment that it provides to users. The integrations that the product has with third-party applications are useful."

"There are multiple tools for information security. The solution includes all the latest advances on the network and host intrusion detection systems."

"The other big selling feature for us was its integration capabilities with all the other security-based products."

"The pricing is amazing and really cheap."

"AlienVault has an advanced component within one package. With this, we can cover more area with one solution."

"In terms of monitoring, my best feature would be the monitoring of components across the network. It monitors the respective nodes and any new node that comes onto the network and provides reports. The reporting dashboards are really helpful for management in terms of making decisions around patch management."

"The most valuable features of AT&T AlienVault USM are the ease of management and knowledge of what is on the network of my customers. It's easy to understand the problems, and management our alarms and events."

"Any unusual behaviour, we can monitor. We have alerts set up to be sent when we receive signs of any unusual behaviour."

More USM Anywhere pros

Cons

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

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

"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."

"It could be even more automated."

"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."

"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."

"The process of logging analytics can be improved"

More Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) cons

"The solution is a bit complicated. It could be simplified quite a bit."

"Source material on the forums to be more up-to-date with the changes happening within the product. Forums being out-of-date with information due to the changes makes troubleshooting a little more difficult - specific to the HIDS agents."

"The dashboard could be improved as well as the level of customization."

"Support can be slow at times, but the quality is high. Posted knowledge base articles could use improvement."

"The solution already has quite good tools, however, they need better integration tools for linking with Office 365, Google Suite, and so on."

"Its reporting tools need improvements. It would be good if they can provide integration with other ticketing systems. Currently, we only have integration with Slack and Jira. It is also a bit slow, and its replication engine can be improved."

"The GUI needs to improve because it's not user-friendly."

"I'd like to see a dashboard that's a little more descriptive."

More USM Anywhere cons

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."

"The price of this solution is reasonable, which is one of the reasons why we selected it over other solutions."

"AlienVault is flexible on their pricing for unlimited licenses."

"It is a product that is priced in a medium range, making it neither a cheap nor a costly product."

"QRadar, ArcSight and Splunk are some of the most expensive SIEM products out there in the market and not everyone has the budget to buy them. In such cases, AV USM is a very cost effective alternative."

"So far, I feel the product's pricing is a good value. The technology is decent. You get what you pay for. I think it's fair."

"I rate the price of AT&T AlienVault USM a four out of five."

"So far, it has been a good solution for a tight budget."

"It has good pricing."

More USM Anywhere pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Log Management solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

869,760 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

14%

Media Company

University

Computer Software Company

16%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	64
Midsize Enterprise	29
Large Enterprise	25

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 AT&T AlienVault USM?

The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of deployment that it provides to users. The integrations that the product has with third-party applications are useful.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AT&T AlienVault USM?

The pricing is amazing and really cheap.

What needs improvement with AT&T AlienVault USM?

There are scalability issues due to a 60 TB limit, which restricts its use for large customers like banks. It is also limited when used with bigger products and has complex password requirements.

AWS X-Ray vs Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Comparisons

Compared 24% of the time

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

Compared 13% 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 6% of the time

Splunk Observability Cloud vs Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Compared 5% of the time

More Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) Competitors

AlienVault OSSIM vs USM Anywhere

Compared 22% of the time

LogRhythm SIEM vs USM Anywhere

Compared 14% of the time

Splunk Enterprise Security vs USM Anywhere

Compared 9% of the time

IBM Security QRadar vs USM Anywhere

Compared 7% of the time

Sentinel vs USM Anywhere

Compared 7% of the time

More USM Anywhere Competitors

Product Reports

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Download Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) product report

Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) report

USM Anywhere

Download USM Anywhere product report

Also Known As

Google Stackdriver, Stackdriver Monitoring, Stackdriver Logging, Google Cloud Monitoring

AT&T AlienVault USM, AlienVault, AlienVault USM, Alienvault Cybersecurity

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.

Google

USM Anywhere centralizes security monitoring of networks and devices in the cloud, on premises, and in remote locations, helping you to detect threats virtually anywhere.

Discover

Network asset discovery
Software & services discovery
AWS asset discovery
Azure asset discovery
Google Cloud Platform asset discovery

Analyze

SIEM event correlation, auto-prioritized alarms
User activity monitoring
Up to 90-days of online, searchable events

Detect

Cloud intrusion detection (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Network intrusion detection (NIDS)
Host intrusion detection (HIDS)
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Respond

Forensics querying
Automate & orchestrate response
Notifications and ticketing

Assess

Vulnerability scanning
Cloud infrastructure assessment
User & asset configuration
Dark web monitoring

Report

Pre-built compliance reporting templates
Pre-built event reporting templates
Customizable views and dashboards
Log storage

LevelBlue

Sample Customers

Uber, Batterii, Q42, Dovetail Games

Abel & Cole, Bank of Ireland, Bluegrass Cellular, CareerBuilder, Claire's, Hays Medical Center, Hope International, McCurrach, McKinsey & Company, Party Delights, Pepco Holdings, Richland School District, Ricoh, SaveMart, Shake Shack, Steelcase, TaxAct, Taylor Morrison, Vonage and Zoom

Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. USM Anywhere