We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Splunk Cloud Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the monitoring 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."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"It's easy to use."
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"We only buy the services we need. We don't have to pay for other things we don't."
"For my current requirements, the tool theme seems to be meeting my requirements, from a cost and requirements perspective."
"Its interconnectivity with the cloud platforms, such as Azure and AWS, was valuable."
"I like the fact that we do not have to maintain all the cloud infrastructure. That is probably the main thing about the Splunk Cloud Platform."
"It's made searching for data easier. Users like it. We're still in the migration process, but overall, it's a lot easier to use."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is its flexibility and readiness because it's already prebuilt, and everything is click-to-go."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud is the quick setup."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is the alerting feature."
"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."
"It could be more stable."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"It could be even more automated."
"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."
"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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"Some of the implementation is challenging. They're not very proxy-aware."
"They need to provide more training options."
"When one of my customers needs an app, and I am able to find that app on the Splunk base, I have to create a ticket and wait for five days for them to download the app into the cloud environment. That is probably one of the main things. It is painful because I have to wait to get that app in the cloud."
"Although there is documentation available, it is really hard for me to find relevant topics on what it is that I'm searching for."
"The administration could use improvement. We have to rely on support more often than we're used to."
"Splunk currently manages the components, which restricts our ability to access them directly."
"The search for bulk data needs to be improved. When we were looking for the flow, we had to search really hard. I wanted to request the Splunk team to add some features for better search because getting the flow of the bulk data was sometimes hard."
"The security connection should have a seamless integration. Other than that, the way we are using it, so far, it seems quite good."
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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 Splunk Cloud Platform is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 34 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while Splunk Cloud Platform 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 Splunk Cloud Platform writes "Does not require backend maintenance, is easily integrated and utilized". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana, whereas Splunk Cloud Platform is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Check Point Security Management, AppInsights and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Splunk Cloud Platform report.
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