We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Grafana based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users prefer Google Cloud's operations suite over Grafana due to its cloud logging, user-friendly interface, and ease of setup. While Grafana is customizable and flexible, it lacks in data aggregation, reporting, and machine learning capabilities. Additionally, support for Grafana varies, while Google Cloud's operations suite has highly regarded technical support. Companies have seen a positive return on investment with Google Cloud's operations suite.
"We find the solution to be stable."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"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."
"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."
"I like the monitoring feature."
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"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"It could be more stable."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"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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"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 24th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while Grafana is rated 8.0. 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 Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Prometheus, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and VMware Aria Operations for Applications. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Grafana report.
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