Google Cloud Operations Suite vs. Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Cloud Operations Suite
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
The Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver) is an APM platform based on three tools for error detection, tracing, and resolution. It manages cloud-based or on-premise applications in live or mid-production environments.
$0.01
per 1,000 read API calls
Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Splunk APM is an application performance monitor that uses AI to drive troubleshooting of issues that arise within applications.
$55
per month
Pricing
Google Cloud Operations SuiteSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Editions & Modules
Monitoring API Calls
$0.01
per 1,000 read API calls
Trace Ingestion
$0.20
per million spans
Monitoring Data
$0.26
per MB
Logging Data
$0.50
per GB
Standard
$55 ($660 billed annually)
Per Host, Per Month
Enterprise
$85 ($1,020 billed annually)
Per Host, Per Month
Enterprise (Usage-based Price)
Per TAPM
Trace Analyzed Per Minute
Standard (Usage-based Price)
Per TAPM
Trace Analyzed Per Minute
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Cloud Operations SuiteSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSplunk APM offers Host-based Pricing or Usage-based Pricing, billed annually. Significant Volume Discounts offered.
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Community Pulse
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Top Cons

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Features
Google Cloud Operations SuiteSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud Operations Suite
8.6
2 Ratings
12% above category average
Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
7.7
9 Ratings
1% above category average
Application monitoring9.12 Ratings8.29 Ratings
Database monitoring9.12 Ratings7.69 Ratings
Threshold alerts7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console6.42 Ratings7.89 Ratings
Collaboration tools9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring10.01 Ratings7.49 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Google Cloud Operations SuiteSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(2 ratings)
8.1
(9 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Cloud Operations SuiteSplunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
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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Splunk
Good for below cases 1. There is a front end and need to correlate data with front end data 2. multiple microservices and need to check the health of each system 3. correlate data from various sources 4. Application performance is a key to be captured 5. application performance is a key metric.
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Pros
Google
  • 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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Splunk
  • Detect and Troubleshoot, which allows team to eliminate errors.
  • Dashboard creates a one stop location for environment health
  • Provides visibility, access to logs and user data real time.
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Cons
Google
  • 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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Splunk
  • I wish Splunk Application Performance Monitoring could integrate with packet capture and analysis tools and provide the integrated analysis results on each tier of the application
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Usability
Google
No answers on this topic
Splunk
Splunk is a great tool for log mining. It is less time-consuming and easy to use. It provides high security, it has customisable dashboards. Furthermore, it acts as a search head, and it gives real-time status. It has the ability to collect data from any source and multiple sources, and it can correlate them.
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Support Rating
Google
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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Splunk
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Google
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Splunk
It is good that the correlation analysis and the cause of the failure can be analyzed more extensively through the collection of many data. It is good because it provides a user interface (usability) well and can be used conveniently.
It is good because it can utilize anomaly detection through various AI-based ML models.
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Return on Investment
Google
  • 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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Splunk
  • It gave us more quicker alerts in a organize way to distribute to specific audience.
  • Helped us to improve our uptime by getting pro-active alerts via emails
  • More collaboration in a DevOps culture
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