Google Cloud Operations Suite
Integrated monitoring, logging, and trace for applications and systems running on Google Cloud and beyond.
Overview
Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver) provides a comprehensive solution for monitoring, logging, and diagnostics. It helps you gain insights into the health, performance, and availability of your applications and infrastructure, enabling you to find and fix issues faster.
✨ Key Features
- Cloud Monitoring for metrics and dashboards
- Cloud Logging for centralized log management
- Cloud Trace for distributed tracing
- Cloud Debugger for real-time debugging
- Cloud Profiler for performance analysis
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Deep integration with Google Cloud services
- Comprehensive suite of observability tools
Unique Value: Provides a unified and comprehensive view of your application's health and performance, enabling faster troubleshooting and improved reliability.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Creating dashboards to monitor the health of a microservices-based application
- Using distributed tracing to identify latency issues in a complex request flow
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Managing infrastructure deployments (better handled by Deployment Manager or Terraform)
🏆 Alternatives
Offers deep, out-of-the-box integrations with Google Cloud services, providing more detailed insights with less configuration.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Enterprise Support tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
Free tier: A monthly free allotment for logging and monitoring data.
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