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

Google and LevelBlue are both solutions in the Log Management category. Google is ranked #30 with an average rating of 8.0, while LevelBlue is ranked #45 with an average rating of 7.3. Google holds a 0.6% mindshare in Log Management, compared to LevelBlue’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of LevelBlue users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

USM Anywhere and Google Cloud's operations suite are contenders in security and operations management. Google Cloud's operations suite is perceived as superior, thanks to its enhanced feature set.

Features: USM Anywhere is recognized for its ease of use, comprehensive threat detection, and effective threat management. Google Cloud's operations suite offers seamless cloud integration, robust monitoring tools, and advanced analytics, which users find beneficial for scalability.

Room for Improvement: USM Anywhere benefits from enhanced customization, improved reporting, and greater integration capabilities. Google Cloud's operations suite can advance with intuitive alerting, enhanced logging, and simplified user interface enhancements, though it is considered future-proof by many users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: USM Anywhere provides an easy deployment process and responsive customer service. Google Cloud's operations suite has a more complex setup, which is balanced by an extensive support network, ensuring consistent service.

Pricing and ROI: USM Anywhere stands out for its cost-effectiveness and good return on investment. Google Cloud operations suite commands a higher price owing to its feature richness and efficiency in managing large-scale operations, with users noting superior long-term value.

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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)

USM Anywhere

Ranking in Log Management

45th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

115

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (32nd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (51st), Compliance Management (13th)

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 USM Anywhere is 0.4%, down from 0.6% 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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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…

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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

"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."

"Google's technical support is very good."

"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."

"I like the monitoring feature."

"It's easy to use."

"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."

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"It has powerful threat detection, incident response, and compliance management."

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

"The solution has all the features that we need, however they do not work correctly."

"It allows you to define what alerts you want to see, or not to see, as well as if you want them grouped, or ungrouped."

"The most valuable feature in AT&T AlienVault USM is the reporting."

"Asset discovery seems to be good."

"Log-monitoring and alerting enable us to know when things happen that we need to know about."

"The AlienVault solution has enabled us to create a SOC on a budget with smaller than usual staff requirements, offering a wider range of solutions for our customers."

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Cons

"It could be even more automated."

"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 logging functionality could be better."

"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."

"The process of logging analytics can be improved"

"It could be more stable."

"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."

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"Different functions to customize reports should be added."

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

"We've had some stability problems, not a lot, but a few. Updates seem to be the worst. That seems to be when the stability problems come up."

"AlienVault must improve their correlation feature. Some of the events do not match with the correlation rules and some of the correlation events are false-positive."

"USM Anywhere relies a lot on the community putting the data in. Often, you'll right-click on the attack, but nothing will be found. That's a weakness of it."

"The vulnerability reporting needs to have options to be able to sort or customize the output."

"There could be some type of integration with our existing portal. We have our own customer portals, and it would be good if there was an integration so that our portal can provide reports. There could be some type of API into the AlienVault system with the USM system so that it is easy to show the customers high-level reports of the system through our portal."

"AlienVault cannot automatically respond to threats like other SIEM solutions, such as Sentinel and LogRhythm. Most of our clients are far away, so it's often challenging to handle alerts when they come up on our dashboard."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of using Stackdriver depends on usage."

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

"The cost could be lower."

"I don't know exactly, but I know it is based on the number of logs and the retention duration, such as 30 days or something like that. So, the smallest package is about 500 a month for 30 days of logs. There is a virtual machine. You need resources for it. It is a log collecting VM. They provide the software, and you just have to load a virtual machine. So, you're going to incur some CPU RAM and storage for wherever this log collecting appliance is running, which typically is in our cloud and on our platform for the customer."

"I don't think the product's pricing is a good value because they try to raise the price 50 percent every year... AlienVault needs to understand that not all customers are huge enterprises... Their sales team is way too aggressive. The price they advertise is not always the price you get."

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

"The licensing fees are dependent on usage."

"Use the AlienVault team. They are helpful and the documentation that they provide is second to none."

"It is affordable, and it also has many features that the premium products such as ArcSight and QRadar have. It is a very good platform for a SIEM solution. Everything is included in the price."

"We pay around $12,000 a year including storage."

"They are a little more expensive than Microsoft."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

14%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

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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.

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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 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.

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

The pricing is amazing and really cheap.

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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.

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Comparisons

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Compared 26% of the time

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

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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AlienVault OSSIM vs USM Anywhere

Compared 20% of the time

Splunk Enterprise Security vs USM Anywhere

Compared 11% of the time

LogRhythm SIEM vs USM Anywhere

Compared 10% of the time

IBM Security QRadar vs USM Anywhere

Compared 8% of the time

Rapid7 InsightIDR vs USM Anywhere

Compared 6% of the time

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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

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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

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