Amazon CloudWatch vs Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Amazon CloudWatch and Google Cloud's operations suite compete in the cloud monitoring tools category. Amazon CloudWatch has an edge in pricing, while Google Cloud's operations suite stands out for its comprehensive features.

Features: Amazon CloudWatch offers scalability, ease of integration with AWS services, and real-time alerts. Google Cloud's operations suite supports multi-cloud environments, provides advanced analytics, and includes integrated application performance management.

Room for Improvement: Amazon CloudWatch could enhance cross-platform monitoring, intuitive navigation, and external integrations. Google Cloud's operations suite needs improvements in alerting configuration, logging instructions, and refining functionalities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon CloudWatch achieves efficient deployment in AWS ecosystems but receives mixed customer service reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite is praised for smooth deployment across platforms and consistent support.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon CloudWatch is perceived as cost-effective with favorable ROI for AWS-involved companies. Google Cloud’s operations suite may have higher costs but offers a rich feature set that justifies its price for many organizations.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon CloudWatch

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

24th

Ranking in Log Management

19th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Google Cloud's operations s...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

32nd

Ranking in Log Management

24th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

19th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Amazon CloudWatch is 0.9%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is 0.9%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Amazon CloudWatch	0.9%
Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver)	0.9%
Other	98.2%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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Amandeep Pawar

Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited

Monitoring microservices has improved and teams respond faster to production incidents

In my opinion, the best features Amazon CloudWatch offers are Metrics, Analytics, Logs, Alarms, Dashboards, and Log Insights, with standout features being real-time monitoring and centralized logging, proactive alerting, and fast troubleshooting. The dashboards in Amazon CloudWatch help with troubleshooting by allowing us to easily look into API latency and how much resource consumption is occurring. The CloudWatch dashboard provides real-time data and views of our application health while Log Insights lets us quickly search and analyze logs to identify root causes of production issues, making troubleshooting time efficient and monitoring much more streamlined. Amazon CloudWatch has positively impacted my organization by improving our ability to monitor production issues and easily find the root cause in the application. We can quickly fix issues at the point of occurrence, and real-time metrics for microservices provide centralized logging and automated alerts that enable fast incident detection, quicker troubleshooting, and better application reliability, ultimately reducing operational efforts by giving engineers a single platform for monitoring AWS resources and microservices. I have seen many positive outcomes in my organization, estimating that CloudWatch reduced troubleshooting time by around thirty to forty percent because engineers could correlate metrics and logging from a single platform. Early alerts also help us resolve many performance issues before they escalate into major incidents, contributing to improved service availability.

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Anand_Patel

Senior Technical Architect at T-Systems International GmbH

Offers reliable Ops Agent and logging transport feature with easy third-party integrations

As part of our company, we implemented several changes in our log analytics pattern, including the storage and procurement process. Earlier, before implementing the solution, our company was able to procure only one year of data, but later, we came to the three-year mark. Around 15-20% reduction has been witnessed in the total analytic consumption of our company. The aforementioned result was possible because the solution allowed the creation of a dashboard where factors like storage costs, proportion of logs, and logs presence in a storage bucket or Big Query can all be checked. Earlier all logs were stored in a raw storage, but currently our company is able to move logs in table bucket that contributes towards cost savings. It has default integration for all gcp services. recently managed Prometheus support gives more flexibility to organizations to remain connected with their current Prometheus setup. We leveraged integrated FinOps Hub for recommendations for our workloads and server configurations, helpd us lot in order to get maximum TCO.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The tool's UI is good. One can scroll through the logs very easily."

"Monitoring time and ensuring ease in it is the most valuable feature."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is collecting the logs from Lambda."

"It's a very simple logging system."

"The scalability of Amazon CloudWatch rates as high scalability, scoring a perfect ten."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is reliability."

"What my company likes best about Amazon CloudWatch is that it's on AWS. My team also likes it for its log feature. As the solution is on AWS, it also has good pricing and resource availability, plus it's what clients choose. My company also chose AWS for Forge ECS, and at the time, there was a need for the log features provided by Amazon CloudWatch, so it's the solution my team went with."

"The monitoring feature is valuable."

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"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."

"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."

"I would tell potential users that the current version is much nicer than the previous one."

"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."

"It has reduced the amount of time that we would take for troubleshooting."

"It has really been helpful in detecting, identifying, and troubleshooting issues with cloud services used in the organization."

"We find the solution to be stable."

"I like the monitoring feature."

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Cons

"CloudWatch's scalability could be improved."

"The solution's integration could be easier for laypersons."

"There is some delay in logging that they need to improve on."

"The product's configuration has some challenges. The solution needs to be more user-friendly."

"I found several areas for improvement in Amazon CloudWatch. First is that it's tough to track issues and find out where it's going wrong. The process takes longer. For example, if I get an exception error, I read the logs, search, go to AWS Cloud, then to the groups to find the keyword to determine what's wrong. Another area for improvement in Amazon CloudWatch is that it's slow in terms of log streaming. It requires an entire twenty-four hours for scanning, rather than just one hour. This issue can be solved with Elasticsearch streaming with Kibana, but it requires a lot of development effort and integration with Kibana or Splunk, and this also means I need a separate developer and software technical stack to do the indexing and streaming to Kibana. It's a manual effort that you need to do properly, so log streaming should be improved in Amazon CloudWatch. The AWS support person should also have a better understanding of the logs in Amazon CloudWatch. What I'd like added to the solution is a more advanced search function, particularly one that can tell you more information or special information. Right now, the search function is difficult to use because it only gives you limited data. For example, I got an error message saying that the policy wasn't created. I only know the amount the customer paid for the policy, the mobile number, and the customer name, but if I use those details, the information won't show up on the logs. I need to enter more details, so that's the type of fuzzy matching Amazon CloudWatch won't provide. If this type of search functionality is provided, it will be very helpful for businesses and companies that provide professional services to customers, like ours."

"There is room for improvement in the pricing, because they have a premium version, but it's not really a premium version. It's just an enhanced monitoring version, and it can be a bit expensive depending on your usage."

"Some of our customers want to use Kubernetes to monitor their CICD flow but Amazon CloudWatch does not support it. We need to use another solution, such as Datadog or Dynatrace has the needed capability."

"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."

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"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it."

"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."

"Google Stackdriver is a stable product, but there is some lagging we cannot stop."

"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."

"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."

"It could be more stable."

"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing can be considered reasonable, especially when already operating on a cloud platform."

"What's were using is the free service of Amazon CloudWatch, so they're not charging us. As for hidden fees, we're not aware of them because we're using what our clients provided us."

"It is a free-of-charge service."

"The product's cost is relatively inexpensive."

"I consider it as a medium-priced solution."

"The tool is not expensive."

"The solution is expensive."

"The price is okay for me."

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"We have a basic standard license without any additional costs."

"The cost of using Stackdriver depends on usage."

"The cost could be lower."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

12%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Construction Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	26

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	9

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon CloudWatch?

The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Amazon CloudWatch has been positive. It was very easy to set up because it is built into AWS and does not require separate licensing, bein...

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What needs improvement with Amazon CloudWatch?

For improvements, I think Amazon CloudWatch could enhance certain areas, particularly regarding pricing structure. I wish to see simpler pricing, more intuitive dashboards, easier log queries for b...

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What is your primary use case for Amazon CloudWatch?

My main use case for Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring and analytics of the application servers. I basically use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the microservices and AWS infrastructure, helping me ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Stackdriver?

As Ops Suite, is a google product which effectively comes at zero setup cost, in order to manage your on-premises logs on onsite, it involves negligible cost for using ops agent and it also include...

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Overview

Amazon CloudWatch offers centralized logging, real-time monitoring, and integration with AWS services, assisting organizations in improving operational efficiency and reducing troubleshooting time.

Amazon CloudWatch provides a comprehensive monitoring solution that includes dashboards, alerts, and detailed reporting to analyze server and application performance. Its user-friendly interface supports AWS services monitoring through integration with resources like EC2, S3, and Lambda. However, improvements can be made in customization, dashboard design, and integration with third-party tools.

What are Amazon CloudWatch's key features?

Ease of Use: Simplifies monitoring and logging with a user-friendly interface.
Centralized Logging: Collects logs from applications and AWS resources for comprehensive analysis.
Real-time Monitoring: Provides real-time insights into AWS services and applications.
Integration with AWS: Seamlessly works with AWS resources such as EC2, S3, and Lambda.
Dashboards and Alerts: Customizable dashboards and proactive alerting to quickly identify issues.

What benefits should users look for?

Operational Efficiency: Reduces troubleshooting time through detailed monitoring and alerting.
Scalability: Adapts to growing infrastructural needs without compromising performance.
Stability: Delivers a reliable and consistent monitoring experience across AWS environments.
Data Analytics: Offers advanced analytics to understand application and infrastructure performance.

Amazon CloudWatch is widely implemented across industries to monitor essential metrics like CPU and memory utilization. Companies rely on its capabilities for anomaly detection, incident response, and performance checks, making it indispensable for automated monitoring in AWS environments.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Google Cloud's operations suite is a comprehensive toolset offering multi-cloud support, insights into performance, uptime, health, and scalable logging for seamless cloud operations.

This suite by Google Cloud provides robust features for organizations managing workloads on GCP and AWS. It offers real-time logging and monitoring, aiding in efficient troubleshooting and performance analysis. With automatic monitoring, statistical insights for Kubernetes and VPNs, and the ability to manage logs, it helps in optimizing technology changes and supports risk management. Despite needs for better APM, cost clarity, migration tools, and enhanced documentation, companies benefit from its capabilities in tracking errors and analyzing metrics in execution environments.

What are the key features of Google Cloud's operations suite?

Multi-cloud Integration: Seamless support for GCP and AWS environments.
Performance Visibility: Insights into system health and uptime.
Scalable Logging: Efficient log management and export capabilities.
User-friendly Interface: Intuitive interaction for easy monitoring configuration.

What benefits and ROI can be expected from Google Cloud's operations suite?

Enhanced Monitoring: Real-time updates facilitate swift response to performance issues.
Efficient Troubleshooting: Detailed log analysis helps resolve code issues quickly.
Performance Analysis: Dashboards support engineering load testing and SLA monitoring.

Industries utilizing Google Cloud's operations suite find it invaluable for optimizing cloud operations, especially in sectors involving extensive database requests and workload execution. Java and Python teams leverage its logging and alert capabilities for improved error tracking and metrics analysis, crucial for maintaining high-performance standards in tech-driven environments.

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