We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Google Cloud's operations suite is praised for its user-friendly interface, cloud logging feature, and technical support, making it the preferred choice compared to Prometheus. Although Prometheus is recognized for its flexibility and integration capabilities, users face challenges with its query language, setup process, and UI. Moreover, Prometheus relies on community support for customer service, whereas Google Cloud provides highly regarded technical support. Overall, Google Cloud's operations suite offers a more comprehensive monitoring solution.
"Google's technical support is very good."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"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 cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
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"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"It is a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"It is an efficient solution."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"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 even more automated."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
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"The solution has shortcomings regarding security monitoring-oriented features to support custom use cases, like out-of-the-box test scenarios and threat-related use cases of its users."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 27th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. 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 Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AppDynamics. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. Prometheus report.
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