Google Cloud's suite (formerly Stackdriver) of Cloud Monitoring, Logging and Trace for metrics, logs, uptime checks and alerting on Google Cloud and other environments.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Free plan
- 150 MiB metrics per billing account, 50 GiB logs/project
- Open source
- No
- Self-hosted
- No
- Launched
- 2016
- Status
- Active
- Website
- cloud.google.com
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Cloud provider monitoring checklist
9 of 10 confirmed in Google Cloud Observability's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Cloud.
- Provider service metrics Yes
- Logs Yes
- Traces Yes
- Alarms Yes
- Dashboards Yes
- Managed Prometheus or PromQL Yes
- Synthetic checks Yes
- Anomaly detection Not confirmed
- Multi-account views Yes
- OpenTelemetry ingest Yes
Multi-project via metrics scopes; PromQL via Managed Service for Prometheus. Baseline anomaly detection not found on the pages read.
Checked against: cloud.google.com, docs.cloud.google.com, docs.cloud.google.com (2)
Alternatives to Google Cloud Observability
Other cloud provider monitoring tools. See all 11.
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Alibaba Cloud CloudMonitor Alibaba Cloud's monitoring service for its cloud resources and hybrid environments, with metrics, event alerts and support for Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry data. -
Amazon CloudWatch AWS's native monitoring service: collects metrics and logs from AWS services and your apps, with alarms, dashboards, synthetic canaries and application signals. -
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Serverless, Prometheus-compatible metrics store on AWS: remote-write metrics from EKS or other clusters and query them with PromQL. -
DigitalOcean Monitoring Built-in metrics and alert policies for DigitalOcean Droplets and other resources, collected by a small agent, at no extra charge. -
Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus Google Cloud's managed Prometheus backend on Monarch: collect with managed or self-deployed collectors, query with PromQL, billed per sample ingested. -
OCI Monitoring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's metrics and alarms service for OCI resources and custom application metrics, queried with its Monitoring Query Language. -
Scaleway Cockpit Scaleway's observability service built on Grafana, Mimir, Loki and Tempo, collecting metrics and logs from Scaleway products by default and accepting external data. - Azure Monitor Microsoft Azure's monitoring service for metrics, logs and traces from Azure resources and apps, including Application Insights, Log Analytics, alerts and managed Prometheus.
- IBM Cloud Monitoring Managed monitoring service on IBM Cloud for metrics from infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, cloud services and applications, with dashboards and alerts.
- Longview Akamai Cloud (Linode) system graphing service: an open source agent reports CPU, memory, disk and network per process. Longview Pro adds 1-minute data and full history.