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Followers727

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Stacks294

Followers312

+ 1

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Splunk vs Stackdriver: What are the differences?

Developers describe Splunk as "Search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data". Splunk Inc. provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use Splunk to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data. On the other hand, Stackdriver is detailed as "Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for applications on Google Cloud Platform and AWS". Google Stackdriver provides powerful monitoring, logging, and diagnostics. It equips you with insight into the health, performance, and availability of cloud-powered applications, enabling you to find and fix issues faster.

Splunk and Stackdriver are primarily classified as "Log Management" and "Cloud Monitoring" tools respectively.

Kalibrr, Nuuvem, and Verba are some of the popular companies that use Stackdriver, whereas Splunk is used by Starbucks, Intuit, and Razorpay. Stackdriver has a broader approval, being mentioned in 58 company stacks & 18 developers stacks; compared to Splunk, which is listed in 31 company stacks and 29 developer stacks.

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Pros of Splunk

Pros of Stackdriver

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API for searching logs, running reports
1
Query engine supports joining, aggregation, stats, etc
1
Query any log as key-value pairs
1
Splunk language supports string, date manip, math, etc
1
Granular scheduling and time window support
1
Alert system based on custom query results
1
Custom log parsing as well as automatic parsing
1
Dashboarding on any log contents
1
Ability to style search results into reports
1
Rich GUI for searching live logs

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Monitoring
11
Logging
8
Alerting
7
Tracing
6
Uptime Monitoring
5
Error Reporting
4
Multi-cloud
3
Production debugger
2
Many integrations
1
Configured basically with GAE
1
Backed by Google

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Cons of Splunk

Cons of Stackdriver

1
Splunk query language rich so lots to learn

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Not free

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What is Splunk?

It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.

What is Stackdriver?

Google Stackdriver provides powerful monitoring, logging, and diagnostics. It equips you with insight into the health, performance, and availability of cloud-powered applications, enabling you to find and fix issues faster.

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What are some alternatives to Splunk and Stackdriver?

Datadog

Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog!

Graylog

Centralize and aggregate all your log files for 100% visibility. Use our powerful query language to search through terabytes of log data to discover and analyze important information.

Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of storing data and searching it in near real time. Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash are the Elastic Stack (sometimes called the ELK Stack).

Sumo Logic

Cloud-based machine data analytics platform that enables companies to proactively identify availability and performance issues in their infrastructure, improve their security posture and enhance application rollouts. Companies using Sumo Logic reduce their mean-time-to-resolution by 50% and can save hundreds of thousands of dollars, annually. Customers include Netflix, Medallia, Orange, and GoGo Inflight.

Kibana

Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.

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