We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Grafana based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users prefer Google Cloud's operations suite over Grafana due to its cloud logging, user-friendly interface, and ease of setup. While Grafana is customizable and flexible, it lacks in data aggregation, reporting, and machine learning capabilities. Additionally, support for Grafana varies, while Google Cloud's operations suite has highly regarded technical support. Companies have seen a positive return on investment with Google Cloud's operations suite.
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"
"Google's technical support is very good."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"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."
"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."
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"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"We like the alert features."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The process of logging analytics can be improved"
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"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."
"It could be more stable."
"It could be even more automated."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
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"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"The formatting could be better."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 27th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 10 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 8.0, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and ManageEngine Applications Manager. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Grafana report.
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