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What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

The ease to implement logging, monitoring and the vast number of customizatin features it provides is really awesome. It gets really handy in integrating with GCP, obviously both are inhouse products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

I just faced one issue like I had to implement the logging manually. It doesnt have some scheduler like kind of thing to automate the process of implementing logging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

It basically provides an easy way to implement logging to monitor the performance data about sevices, basically applications. Thus making the process quite helpful to monitor our application and metrics as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Google Cloud Observability?

Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for applications on Cloud Platform and AWS

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Google Stackdriver offers monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for applications on Cloud Platform and AWS.


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4.5 out of 5
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I use mainly Cloud Logging and Tracing, and I like the provided APIs and provided documentation. They are very concise and easy to use. I like the...
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1.Comprehensive Monitoring and Logging 2.Integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) 3.Trace and Profiling Tools
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Adam A.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

I use mainly Cloud Logging and Tracing, and I like the provided APIs and provided documentation. They are very concise and easy to use.

I like the filtering on the logging interface. Although I sometimes prefer to use the old UI (maybe due to habit)

I like how easy it is to use Cloud Tracing together with OpenCensus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Some things that I would like to see improved:

Tracing for multi threading and asynchronous operations

Maybe an improvement in the trace viewer. For example:

- the first few times I could not wrap my head around the time measurement graphs)

- the hide button for traces doesn't really make sense in how it works. It's shown on the same level as it's child elements, which sometimes leads me to hide traces I want to examine. I'd like to see a design where it is more clear if a trace is a child Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Observability:

I definitely recommend using this service. I have only AWS Cloudwatch to compare it to and I prefer Google. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

At X-Cite, we develop high performance microservices that need to handle a significant amount of data. Naturally these services need to perform well, ALL the time. So when things go wrong, we need to know where, what and why. Cloud logging allows us to log errors, debug info and other things in a clean way in the cloud with the ability to easily search and diagnose and resolve issues in our deployed microservices.

Meanwhile, Cloud Tracing allows us to see bottlenecks and inefficiencies in detail. We use OpenCensus to interface with Cloud Tracing and this gives us great versatility in choosing where and what aspects of our service we want to trace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sandopu p.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Here the most important usage of GCP stack drivers is that we can get the metrics and logs of drives timely manner.

That helps developers or engineers to have a track and find the issue if any by inspecting into the logs and metric spikes and application errors, and also while deployments as well. This has a continuous guard setup, continuous integration and delivery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

The least I can say is that an engineer should have at least knowledge of the metrics and GCP basic a normal engineer will not be able to work on it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Say in general, I have a problem with my application and I am not aware of how to troubleshoot because I want to know what exactly the error is and where I have gone wrong, whether in integration or configuration.

This product helps me to track all the logs and info. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Google Cloud Operations (formerly Stackdriver) excels in providing a unified and comprehensive cloud management solution. Users appreciate its powerful monitoring capabilities, seamless logging and debugging features, flexible alerting system, user-friendly interface, and robust integration with other Google Cloud services. The platform's reliability and ability to offer a holistic view of cloud infrastructure contribute to its positive reputation among users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

While generally well-received, some users have reported occasional latency in metric updates as a minor drawback. However, it's important to note that individual experiences may vary, and the platform's overall performance remains highly regarded by many users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Google Cloud Operations (formerly Stackdriver) solves challenges in cloud management by offering unified monitoring, efficient troubleshooting, proactive issue resolution, a user-friendly interface, seamless integration with Google Cloud services, and comprehensive cloud management. These benefits collectively enhance system reliability, accelerate issue resolution, and improve overall operational efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

It supports wide variety of source to collect your logs from. All google cloud product have native integration with cloud operations suite. Apart from logs it also provides ability to trace and alerting features. It also provides simple to use destination selector which allow you to export log to multiple services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Only downside of using Cloud Operations is cost. It charges you for amount of data ingested instead of amount of data stored. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows you to have single dashboard which monitor your complete google cloud project. It reduce time to response in case of any possible downtime or service disruptions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

1.Comprehensive Monitoring and Logging

2.Integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

3.Trace and Profiling Tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

The cloud monitoring landscape is competitive and rapidly evolving. Some users might have desired a faster pace of feature development or more frequent updates to stay ahead of emerging trends and user needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Security Monitoring:

Problem: Detecting and responding to security incidents can be a significant challenge.

Benefit: The platform includes security monitoring features, allowing users to track and analyze security-related events. This enhances the ability to detect and respond to security threats effectively Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Awesome and fast logging search with inbuilt histogram and attributes level count

Support for complex query support for aggregation od metrics

Built in dashboard for many famous work load like kafka elastic search mongodb etc makes it easy to start Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Google could agent takes lots of memories cpu overhead in services

Lack integrations with many tools for alerting like Ms team etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Centralised observability for microservices running in kubernetes and other cloud provider Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ankush V.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

It provides a scalable and robust infrastructure to manage cloud services. It provides very good monitoring and logging solutions which is done on the realtime basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Cost management should be more forward, apart from that no other demerits I have about this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Realtime Monitoring: we are resolving this issue of our cloud infra based on realtime inputs that we are getting from monitoring, it helps to identify RCA and solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sagar J.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

1.Comprehensive Monitoring

2.Logging and Error Reporting

3.User-friendly Interface

4.Integration with Google Cloud Services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

While Google Cloud Operations Suite integrates well with other Google Cloud services, users working in heterogeneous environments or with non-Google services may face integration challenges. Compatibility and ease of integration with third-party tools could be areas for improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing logs and tracking errors in a distributed system can be time-consuming and challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

Unified Monitoring and Logging, Integration with Google Cloud Services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Complexity in Setup, Limited Customization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Real-Time Monitoring:

Problem: Lack of real-time visibility into the performance and health of applications and infrastructure.

Benefit: Google Cloud Operations provides real-time monitoring, allowing organizations to detect issues promptly and respond proactively to ensure optimal performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aman A.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Observability?

I like its features like comprehensive monitoring, error reporting profile and the best part is integration with google that gives it good scaling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Observability?

Nothing such as dislike, still exploring in the same Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me to manage my data, scaling yo my processes. Maintaining the security patches as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.