We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"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."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"We find the solution to be stable."
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"SolarWinds NPM has a colorful UI and many easy-to-use features. It does not need to be configured as much and is also easy to install."
"It is very extensible with 'SWQL' and APIs to where we are beginning to integrate it with network automation."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"The benefit of this solution is the reporting. We're able to report on and see our network in a graphical form. We are able to detect when a device is added to a network."
"The people in technical support are very good."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"The set up was very easy. We didn't have any problems with the setup. The deployment took less than an hour."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It could be even more automated."
"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."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"It could be more stable."
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"An area for improvement would be the use of modular licenses, which are not practical for big clients."
"The solution needs to integrate with additional SDN technologies that are part of the hyper market."
"The solution could improve in many areas, such as the marketing and description of the products, providing areas of improvement, cloud capabilities, and being able to be more streamlined with the current integration points with other applications."
"The solution does not offer much customization so is somewhat inflexible."
"The integration needs to be improved."
"I think Solar Winds NPM needs to create a profile with documentation responsibility."
"I would like to see integration with antivirus or other security endpoint solutions."
"Sometimes there are issues when upgrading to a new version of the product."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 24th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 9 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 6th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds NPM 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 SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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