We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Google Cloud's operations suite is praised for its user-friendly interface, cloud logging feature, and technical support, making it the preferred choice compared to Prometheus. Although Prometheus is recognized for its flexibility and integration capabilities, users face challenges with its query language, setup process, and UI. Moreover, Prometheus relies on community support for customer service, whereas Google Cloud provides highly regarded technical support. Overall, Google Cloud's operations suite offers a more comprehensive monitoring solution.
"It's easy to use."
"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."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"We find the solution to be stable."
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"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"The solution is useful to collect huge metrics."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"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."
"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."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"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."
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"A slight alteration to the user interface should be made to increase efficiency and streamline the process. Currently, we are utilizing Prometheus to gather and compile metrics and then utilizing Grafana to display them in the form of a graph. However, I believe that Prometheus has the capability to handle both of these tasks on its own, with perhaps the addition of a supplementary plugin. By doing so, the need for utilizing two separate applications will be eliminated."
"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"If you want to collect details of metrics, you should be able to write a query for it directly. I want the product to offer better queries for the metrics."
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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 Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. 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 Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and New Relic, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AppDynamics. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Prometheus report.
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