We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Monitor is the preferred solution because it has better customization and integration options, lower pricing, and more out-of-the-box functionalities with AI for event correlation. It also provides a one-stop place to monitor all resources, making it easier to manage cloud resources across multiple subscriptions.
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"One of the most useful aspects of this solution is the out-of-the-box functionality on all areas, especially on Application Insights, zero instrumentation, and artificial intelligence for event correlation."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"The most valuable features of Azure Monitor are the login analytics workspace and we can write any kind of custom queries in order to receive the data that is inserted into the login analytics workspace, diagnostic settings, et cetera."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"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."
"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"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."
"It's easy to use."
"We find the solution to be stable."
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"As a younger product it still has room for feature improvement and enhancement."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"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."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"The process of logging analytics can be improved"
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
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Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 reviews while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 27th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 10 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and SolarWinds Pingdom, whereas Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, New Relic, Amazon CloudWatch and Prometheus. See our Azure Monitor vs. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) report.
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