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Azure Monitor vs Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

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

Categories and Ranking

Azure Monitor
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
4th
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
5th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
53
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Google Cloud's operations s...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
26th
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
24th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (31st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Azure Monitor is 9.5%, up from 9.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is 1.4%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Swapan Biswas - PeerSpot reviewer
A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement
Alerts cannot be configured to monitor at a certain point in time. For example, we might want to alert people at zero hours but that is not possible. Splunk can accomplish this and its alerts are far better than the solution's options. The alerting mechanism is not up to the market. The default interface should be improved. You can prepare your own dashboard by using custom query language, but the default interface is not good.
Anand_Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
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 BigQuery 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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"Among the valuable features of this solution, Application Insights stands out as one of the most significant. It provides insights into application performance and helps identify issues and bottlenecks."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The features that are most valuable are the alerting function and also the logging functionality to analyze certain issues using log analytics"
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"The security and support are good."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"It's easy to use."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
 

Cons

"Using Azure Monitor and Azure Arc separately to monitor different environments can be complicated."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"The default interface should be improved."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"Azure Monitor could improve by adding capabilities for data observability and integrating more tightly with their data platform components."
"The pricing model could be more flexible."
"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."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"It could be more stable."
"The process of logging analytics can be improved"
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Besides standard licensing fees the customer needs to additionally pay based on the ingested data size"
"Azure Monitor is cheaper compared to other third-party monitoring tools."
"The product offers a pay-as-you-go model to users. The charges are to be paid according to the usage of the product."
"The solution’s pricing depends on how much logs it collects."
"The solution is expensive, but it is worth the price."
"Azure Monitor is one of the more cost effective solutions on the market."
"My company is okay with the current pricing of the solution."
"The Azure Insight is a little bit expensive."
"The cost could be lower."
"The cost of using Stackdriver depends on usage."
"We have a basic standard license without any additional costs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...
What do you like most about Azure Monitor?
Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment.
What needs improvement with Azure Monitor?
Azure Monitor could improve by adding capabilities for data observability and integrating more tightly with their data platform components.
What needs improvement with Google Stackdriver?
If the errors are caught early in the interface, it would be easier for users to manage. The process of logging analytics can be improved.
What is your primary use case for Google Stackdriver?
I use the solution for logging, defining alerts, and monitoring. Our company's Java and Python logging teams mainly use it.
 

Also Known As

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Google Stackdriver, Stackdriver Monitoring, Stackdriver Logging, Google Cloud Monitoring
 

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Sample Customers

Rackspace, First Gas, Allscripts, ABB Group
Uber, Batterii, Q42, Dovetail Games
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