F5 Beacon vs. Google Cloud Operations Suite

It is very well suited in complex, multi-cloud application environments where it provides holistic, application-centric visibility by ingesting data from NGINX and other telemetry sources. It helps troubleshoot performance issues in high-availability and regulated environments where outages have a high impact on strict SLAs. It is less appropriate in situations where organizations rely on unmaintained or archived integrations.

Easy to set up in all environments. With this tool, the company is now able to measure both well-functioning data and data that needs immediate intervention. This early detection facilitates decisions about actions to correct the disorder and improve indexes. Stackdriver is now essential for the company's security and monitoring team and we plan to expand to other branches.

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• Accelerated troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Unified application visibility across hybrid environments
• Business level insight & KPI correlation

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• All the application error reporting available at a single place.
• You will get the real-time application error and alerts.
• It's really easy to use and no need to worry for the setup.

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• F5 needs improvement in Platform Stability and Maintenance gaps.
• It has limited built-in insights and relies heavily on customization.
• Application modeling and data ingestion setup is complex.

• For searching and filtering the logs the system is slow sometimes.
• An agent needs to be installed in each VM to monitor specific metrics.
• The pricing model is confusing.

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The reason of giving above rating of 10 is that it offers intuitive, centralized dashboard which reduces the need to switch between multiple tools making it easier for IT teams to quickly assess application health. Moreover it offers easy correlation of technical and business metrics by linking application performance data directly to business KPIs. the major benefit of using Beacon is that it simplifies troubleshooting workflow which reduces Mean Time To Resolution hence improving productivity and minimizing downtime.

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It is also a great problem detection tool, and this is extremely important for General Motors.

The user can count on the ease of flexible panels and advanced visualization tools that help to identify problems. Among the most common, we can mention:

- containment of hosts;

- cloud provider limitation;

- hardware wear.

And also Stackdriver Integration with other Google Cloud data tools such as BigQuery, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage and Cloud Database.

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F5 Beacon is best for F5-centric, hybrid, app-centric visibility, whereas Datadog is best for cloud-native, distributed observability. F5 beacon is superior for understanding BIG-IP flows, WAF, ADC behavior at the app level. It has a unified view of F5-powered applications. F5 Beacon simplifies troubleshooting across multicloud F5 deployments. Beacon provides business logic level visibility.

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• Positive: Reduced downtime costs
• Positive: Improved IT efficiency
• Positive: Better business-IT alignment
• Negative: Scaling costs in large enterprises.

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• We completely depends on Stackdriver for error monitoring and reporting.
• Stackdriver is very simple to use and available at default.
• Stackdriver is the key part for our business to get the insight of our application behavior.

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