#1 most frequent
United States of America
63.8%97 installations of 152
What is Google Cloud Operations Suite?
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.
Categories & Use Cases
Top Performing Features
Virtualization monitoring
Allows for monitoring of virtual applications and servers
Category average: 7.6
IT Asset Discovery
Discovery of hardware and software assets on the network
Category average: 6.2
Application monitoring
Application monitoring involves tracking response times and resource usage for applications, including highly-distributed applications
Category average: 7.5
Areas for Improvement
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
Mapping relationships between the application and its underlying infrastructure
Category average: 6.3
Threshold alerts
Alerts indicating when critical thresholds have been reached
Category average: 7.8
Application performance management console
The management console is used to manage monitoring agents and et thresholds, etc.
Category average: 7.6
Who Buys & Uses Google Cloud Operations Suite
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
6.6%10 installations of 152
#3 most frequent
India
4.6%7 installations of 152
Performing metrics analysis and problem detection in a simple and reliable manner.
Pros
- It is fully managed and more scalable.
- Real-time log analysis.
- Log Alerts.
Cons
- 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.
Return on Investment
- Record storage and search.
- Real-time insights.
- Troubleshooting without interruption.
Alternatives Considered
Dynatrace, Datadog and Sumo Logic
Other Software Used
SonicWall NSA Series, Microsoft 365 Business, Zoom
Go with Stackdriver to get application insights to realize the impact on business
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- It's a bit slow when we want to search for the older logs.
- Default logs are available only for 30 days, if logs are available for longer duration then it would be great.
- If it will show the data in graphical representation than it would be awesome because then will get to know the error occurrences and type in graph.
Return on Investment
- 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.
Alternatives Considered
Nagios XI and Prometheus
Other Software Used
Jenkins, Slack, Jira Software, Bitbucket