The tool – a version of which is available for free – brings together metrics, logs and metadata from multiple cloud accounts into a single pane of glass.

Aldrin Brown, Editor-in-Chief

October 21, 2016

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Google Stackdriver Hits General Availability

Google today made its new unified monitoring, logging and diagnostics tool for hybrid clouds generally available.

Google Stackdriver, which is native to a variety of well-known open source packages, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), has been in beta since this past spring.

The tool brings together metrics, logs and metadata from multiple cloud accounts into a single pane of glass.

“By integrating monitoring, logging and diagnostics, Google Stackdriver makes ops easier for the hybrid cloud, equipping customers with insight into the health, performance and availability of their applications,” product manager Dan Belcher said in a recent blog post. “We’re unifying these services into a single package, which makes Google Stackdriver affordable, easy-to-use, and flexible.”

Rideshare giant Uber, web hosting firm Wix and free online learning company Khan Academy are already using Stackdriver monitoring, Google said in today’s announcement.

The tool had been free for beta users.

Going forward, users will be able to opt for one of two pricing tiers: free and premium.

Under the free plan, available only for GCP workloads, users get key metrics, traces, error reports and up to 5 gigabytes (GBs) a month of logs.

The premium plan runs $8 per monitored resource, per month – prorated hourly.

That includes 10 GBs of log storage, 30 days of log retention, alerting via text, Slack, Hipchat and other tools, and integration with Amazon Web Services.

Google is offering free 30-day trials of the premium option.

 

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Aldrin Brown

Editor-in-Chief, Penton

Veteran journalist Aldrin Brown comes to Penton Technology from Empire Digital Strategies, a business-to-business consulting firm that he founded that provides e-commerce, content and social media solutions to businesses, nonprofits and other organizations seeking to create or grow their digital presence.

Previously, Brown served as the Desert Bureau Chief for City News Service in Southern California and Regional Editor for Patch, AOL's network of local news sites. At Patch, he managed a staff of journalists and more than 30 hyper-local and business news and information websites throughout California. In addition to his work in technology and business, Brown was the city editor for The Sun, a daily newspaper based in San Bernardino, CA; the college sports editor at The Tennessean, Nashville, TN; and an investigative reporter at the Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA.

 

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