We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a robust analytical tool and it goes beyond mere functionality and extends into the realm of providing comprehensive insights."
"The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is intrusion prevention."
"The monitoring features are valuable."
"Most of it's around optimizing utilization, their cloud utilization. They're making sure that they're getting the most out of their in-cloud environments and their instances. Making sure that there's no strange behavior in the environment."
"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"The solution effectively monitors golden signals like CPU, page requests, and queues."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"It's easy to use."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"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."
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"The dashboard and the UI could improve in Amazon CloudWatch. Additionally, they should focus on visibility inside the servers with AI and machine learning integrations. This would allow users who are using the solution to see what is happening within the system better."
"What would make Amazon CloudWatch better is if it includes more on-site checks, particularly status checks on the CPU, network input/output, etc. It would also be helpful if there's built-in swap space, disk, and memory monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch because, at the moment, my team has to configure it manually through a shell script."
"When customers want to see the CPU or memory utilization there is a cost. This should be free to see the utilization."
"The solution's integration could be easier for laypersons."
"Incorporating a straightforward method or a plug-and-play solution for integrating these databases with our systems, facilitating smooth data transfer, and enabling the creation of dashboards for monitoring and analysis would be beneficial."
"The solution could benefit from a price decrease."
"The product’s documentation must be improved."
"It's not an advanced way of monitoring."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It could be more stable."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"It could be even more automated."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"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 is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
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Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 26th in Log Management with 9 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". 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". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and Nagios XI, whereas Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic and Grafana. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) report.
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