Google Cloud Monitoring Goes Into Beta
Google (GOOG) has almost completely integrated its StackDriver acquisition from last spring into its offerings. The company has released the beta version of Google Cloud Monitoring, which is based StackDriver technology.
You remember StackDriver, right? Google fired a clear shot at Amazon Web Services when it acquired StackDriver last May. Prior to that acquisition, StackDriver was an Amazon-focused firm that provided monitoring and support services around Amazon. Of course, Amazon wasn’t its sole focus, but it appeared to make up the majority of its business.
So it certainly turned heads when Google announced its acquisition of the company. At Google I/O in June, Google announced that it had started integration of StackDriver into Google Cloud Platform while also making the technology available to a limited number of alpha testers.
Now, StackDriver — or Google Cloud Monitoring, as it’s now called — is available more widely in a beta release. Dan Belcher, Google Cloud Monitoring product manager and founder of StackDriver, noted in a blog post that since I/O, “the team has been working to make operations easier for Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services customers, and hundreds of companies are now using the service for that purpose.”
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Google Cloud Monitoring provides application monitoring capabilities, including measurements of performance, capacity and uptime, for Google App Engine, Google Compute Engine, Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud SQL. It also continues to provide monitoring capabilities for Amazon Web Services.
“Cloud Monitoring streamlines operations by unifying infrastructure monitoring, system/OS monitoring, service/uptime monitoring, charting and alerting into a simple and powerful hosted service,” Belcher noted.
The integration of StackDriver isn’t quite over, though. According to Belcher, the completion of the project is coming.
“We’ll continue to extend our support for each of these platforms. We’re also working to integrate Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging more deeply to simplify root cause analysis for issues,” Belcher wrote.
