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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.
Pros of Splunk
- Alert system based on custom query results2
- API for searching logs, running reports2
- Query engine supports joining, aggregation, stats, etc2
- Ability to style search results into reports1
- Query any log as key-value pairs1
- Splunk language supports string, date manip, math, etc1
- Granular scheduling and time window support1
- Custom log parsing as well as automatic parsing1
- Dashboarding on any log contents1
- Rich GUI for searching live logs1
Pros of Stackdriver
- Monitoring19
- Logging11
- Alerting8
- Tracing7
- Uptime Monitoring6
- Error Reporting5
- Multi-cloud4
- Production debugger3
- Many integrations2
- Configured basically with GAE1
- Backed by Google1
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Cons of Splunk
- Splunk query language rich so lots to learn1
Cons of Stackdriver
- Not free2