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PROS

Valuable graphs provide quick statistics for various levels such as Kubernetes, Kong, and VPN.
Supports multi-cloud integration with both GCP and AWS.
Enhances visibility into performance uptime.
Technical support from Google is highly rated.
Integrates well with systems and clusters for companies with a corporate account on Google Cloud.

CONS

If users want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of response times, they are not able to get it.
Estimation of costs in advance is difficult.
Sufficient operations documentation is lacking.
Logging functionality could be better.
The overall metrics provided are minimal and insufficient.
 

Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) Pros review quotes

ANANDA KANCHARLA - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Mar 24, 2020
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.
RM
Infrastructure/Cloud Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 30, 2020
The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS.
reviewer1431798 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Function Head, RISK Technology and Change at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 6, 2020
Provides visibility into the performance uptime.
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RM
Infrastructure/Cloud Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 13, 2021
Google's technical support is very good.
AnandPatel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Specialist at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Jun 6, 2022
I like the monitoring feature.
Swayan Jeet Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Schlumberger
Oct 31, 2022
Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well.
NG
Automation Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 31, 2022
We find the solution to be stable.
Darasimi Ajewole - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Formplus
Nov 26, 2022
The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use.
reviewer2094309 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Data Engineer Manager at a university with 10,001+ employees
Feb 13, 2023
It's easy to use.
Anand_Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Architect at T-Systems International GmbH
Nov 17, 2025
Offers a valuable logging transport feature
 

Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) Cons review quotes

ANANDA KANCHARLA - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Mar 24, 2020
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.
RM
Infrastructure/Cloud Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 30, 2020
It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost.
reviewer1431798 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Function Head, RISK Technology and Change at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 6, 2020
Lacking sufficient operations documentation.
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RM
Infrastructure/Cloud Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 13, 2021
While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace.
AnandPatel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Specialist at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Jun 6, 2022
It could be more stable.
Swayan Jeet Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Schlumberger
Oct 31, 2022
This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana.
NG
Automation Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 31, 2022
The logging functionality could be better.
Darasimi Ajewole - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Formplus
Nov 26, 2022
The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient.
reviewer2094309 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Data Engineer Manager at a university with 10,001+ employees
Feb 13, 2023
It could be even more automated.
Anand_Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Architect at T-Systems International GmbH
Nov 17, 2025
The process of logging analytics can be improved