DevOps Data Engineer Manager at a university with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Feb 13, 2023
It could be even more automated. For instance, the moment you deploy something, the monitoring can be there for everything. You will just have to launch or click the console in the morning, and then you won’t even have to think about it.
Infrastructure/Cloud Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jul 13, 2021
While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace. We would like to improve the application log. Most of these logs are derived from Grafana and not from Google Stackdriver. The application locker should be addressed.
Director, Function Head, RISK Technology and Change at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Oct 6, 2020
I think given it's a new application, a new solution on the block, operations documentation could be a bit better. It took us some time to get up and running with it. It would have been helpful if they had provided some migration tools. For example, you're never going to get away from Genius. We have to do most of the work manually. The tools would have helped us to migrate scripts from other well-known software products and other management tools for Stackdriver. A helpful feature would be for them to improve cost transparency.
Find out what your peers are saying about Google, Datadog, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Updated: May 2026.
Infrastructure/Cloud Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Apr 30, 2020
The APM functionality needs to be improved. It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost. Often, you don't know how much it costs until you are finished.
Program Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
MSP
Mar 5, 2020
As far as what can be improved in Stackdriver, on the application side, 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. It can give me the utilization reports, and other network traffic information, but it is not able to provide me answers in detail at a request level. That is why I have to rely on some other APM tools. It would be better if they could provide the round-trip of the response time at a request level because on an overall basis it gives the traffic, transactions per second, etc. if any drops happen, what could be the reason for the drops? Suppose I have a Kong, Kubes,NAT and VPN. With these kinds of things, If any drop happened, it will show me that the drop happened, but it will not give me the reason why it got dropped.
Application Performance Monitoring and Observability are critical solutions enabling businesses to monitor and optimize application performance. They provide actionable insights to ensure robust, seamless user experiences and drive operational efficiency. As digital landscapes grow complex, Application Performance Monitoring and Observability tools become essential for understanding system behaviors and preempting disruptions. They offer a comprehensive view by correlating metrics, traces,...
If the errors are caught early in the interface, it would be easier for users to manage. The process of logging analytics can be improved.
It could be even more automated. For instance, the moment you deploy something, the monitoring can be there for everything. You will just have to launch or click the console in the morning, and then you won’t even have to think about it.
The cloud monitoring metrics collection and instrumentation could be extended to client-side, instead of just cloud services.
It could be more stable.
While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace. We would like to improve the application log. Most of these logs are derived from Grafana and not from Google Stackdriver. The application locker should be addressed.
I think given it's a new application, a new solution on the block, operations documentation could be a bit better. It took us some time to get up and running with it. It would have been helpful if they had provided some migration tools. For example, you're never going to get away from Genius. We have to do most of the work manually. The tools would have helped us to migrate scripts from other well-known software products and other management tools for Stackdriver. A helpful feature would be for them to improve cost transparency.
The APM functionality needs to be improved. It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost. Often, you don't know how much it costs until you are finished.
As far as what can be improved in Stackdriver, on the application side, 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. It can give me the utilization reports, and other network traffic information, but it is not able to provide me answers in detail at a request level. That is why I have to rely on some other APM tools. It would be better if they could provide the round-trip of the response time at a request level because on an overall basis it gives the traffic, transactions per second, etc. if any drops happen, what could be the reason for the drops? Suppose I have a Kong, Kubes,NAT and VPN. With these kinds of things, If any drop happened, it will show me that the drop happened, but it will not give me the reason why it got dropped.