We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and VMware Aria Operations for Logs 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."We find the solution to be stable."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently 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."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
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"We use the on-premises version of this solution for log analysis and to find details about certain issues."
"The root cause analysis feature is very valuable."
"The tool helps my company deal with security and log analysis, which are very important areas for us...It is a scalable solution."
"It is a highly stable solution...It is a highly scalable solution."
"Log Insight correlates with the VMware product log. It can assemble the logs you want, making it easier to find the output, incident, or keyword you want to search."
"The solution's simplicity, flexibility, and extensibility are valuable features as we can integrate everything in vRealize."
"It is a very useful tool if you have a VMware environment."
"What I like is that you can have different storage locations for different applications."
"It could be more stable."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"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."
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"In vRealize login files, we have limitations regarding log partitions."
"The tool does not provide a centralized pane for monitoring."
"They should improve their web interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The tool is expensive."
"From an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made more user-friendly."
"The solution is a very good tool, but it has a lot of limitations. One of the main issues is around how you define your retention policy, for instance, in Log Insight. It doesn't have it. You can't define a log retention policy. You also can't define the destination or location for your logs. All of the logs are in one index or one bucket."
"It's great for VMware, but it would be good if they had third-party logins."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 26th in Log Management with 9 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 10th in Log Management with 24 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs 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 VMware Aria Operations for Logs writes "Gives a clear forecast about existing machines, and has an automation feature that helps in reducing a lot of ambiguities and managing operational efficiencies". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Elastic Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Graylog and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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