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{{Short description|Service offered by Google}}

{{COI|date=May 2013}}

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| name = Stackdriver

| logo = Google_Stackdriver_logo.svg

| type=[[Private company]]

| logo_size = 250px

| industry = [[Systems management]]

| name = Google Stackdriver

| stage = Public beta

| url = {{URL|https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver}}

| num_employees = 21

| commercial = Yes (terms of service)

| foundation = 2012

| location_citytype = [[Boston]],Systems [[Massachusettsmanagement]]

| location_countryowner = [[United StatesGoogle]]

| launch_date = {{start date and age|2014|05|01}}

| logo = [[File:Stackdriver Logo.jpg|250px]]

| current_status = Active

| owner = [[Alphabet Inc.]]

| registration = Required

| website = {{URL|http://stackdriver.com/}}

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'''Google Stackdriver''' was a [[cloud computing]] [[systems management]] service offered by [[Google]]. It provided performance and diagnostics data (in the form of monitoring, logging, tracing, error reporting, and alerting) to [[public cloud]] users. Stackdriver was a multi-cloud solution, providing support for both [[Google Cloud Platform|Google Cloud]] and [[Amazon Web Services|AWS]] cloud environments.

'''Stackdriver''' is a [[cloud computing]] [[systems management]] firm based in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. They aim to help [[DevOps]] manage large, distributed applications running in the [[public cloud]]. It [[visualization (computer graphics)|visualizes]] [[Cloud computing#Service models|application, system and infrastructure]] metrics and also provides a policy system to alert users when predefined thresholds are breached. Following a $5 million investment by [[Bain Capital Ventures]] in 2012, they entered [[public beta]] on April 30, 2013.<ref>[http://www.equities.com/news/technology/2013-04-30/1340427/stackdriver-launches-public-beta-of-intelligent-monitoring.story Equities Global Financial Network] Retrieved 2 May 2013.</ref> In May 2014, they were acquired<ref>[http://www.stackdriver.com/ Stackdriver homepage announcement]</ref> by [[Google]].

Google ended use of the Stackdriver brand in February 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cloud operations grows with monitoring, logging, more |url=https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/cloud-operations-grows-with-monitoring-logging-more |access-date=2023-07-26 |website=Google Cloud Blog |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Company History ==

== Company History ==

Stackdriver was created in 2012, when founders Dan Belcher and Izzy Azeri—former coworkers from [[VMware]]—created the concept based on a survey of companies using [[Amazon Web Services|AWS]] and [[Rackspace Cloud|Rackspace]]. The survey results and subsequent interviews highlighted many challenges that companies encounter when running large, distributed applications on public cloud infrastructure.<ref>[http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2012/09/stackdriver-bain-capital-ventures.html?page=all Boston Business Journal] Retrieved 2 May 2013.</ref> Belcher and Azeri described the fact that respondents were monitoring their cloud infrastructure and applications using a range of open-source tools, each covering a [[Cloud computing#Service models|different layer]]. It then became their goal to combine these different levels of monitoring into a single [[Cloud computing#Service models|SaaS]] solution.<ref>[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/02/stackdriver_intelligent_monitoring/ The Register] Retrieved 2 May 2013.</ref>

Stackdriver the company was created in 2012 by founders Dan Belcher and Izzy Azeri.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2012/09/stackdriver-bain-capital-ventures.html?page=all|work=[[The Business Journals]]|title=VMware vets launch Stackdriver, raise $5M from Bain Capital Ventures|date=September 21, 2012}}</ref> The company's goal was to provide consistent monitoring across cloud computing's multiple [[Cloud computing#Service models|service layers]], using a single [[Cloud computing#Service models|SaaS]] solution.{{solution-inline|date=August 2019}}<ref>{{cite web | last=Morgan | first=Timothy Prickett | title=Stackdriver fluffs up cloudy management tool | website=The Register | date=2 May 2013 | url=https://www.theregister.com/2013/05/02/stackdriver_intelligent_monitoring}}</ref>

Stackdriver's founders secured $5 million funding from [[Bain Capital Ventures|Bain]] in July 2012 and hired a team (including engineers from [[Red Hat]], [[Acquia]] and [[EMC Corporation|EMC]], as well as [[StyleFeeder]] founder Phil Jacob).<ref>[http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/startup-stackdriver-snags-stylefeeder-founder-as-cto/ GigaOM] Retrieved 2 May 2013.</ref> After opening an office at [[Downtown Crossing]] in Boston, development of ''Stackdriver Intelligent Monitoring'' began in Fall 2012 and within months the staff had grown to 15.<ref>[http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2013/02/stackdriver_assembling_team_of.html Boston Globe] Retrieved 2 May 2013.</ref> A beta version of the product became publicly available on April 30, 2013. Advisors to Stackdriver include George Kassabgi (Co-Founder, [[Keas.com]], serial entrepreneur), Tom Roloff (Senior Vice President, [[EMC Corporation|EMC]]), Dale Christian (CIO, [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]]), Ben Matheson (Amazon Web Services, VMware, Microsoft) and Shmuel Kliger (Founder & CTO, [[VMTurbo]]).

Stackdriver secured [[US$]]5 million funding from [[Bain Capital Ventures]] in July 2012. A beta version of the product became publicly available on April 30, 2013.

== Features ==

The aim of '''Stackdriver Intelligent Monitoring''' is to improve the performance and availability of large, complex applications running in the public cloud. To that end, it provides metrics detailing every layer of the [[Cloud computing#Service models|'stack']] in the form of charts and graphs, while also allowing users to receive alerts when these metrics breach normal levels.

In May 2014, the Stackdriver company was acquired by [[Google]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/07/google-acquires-cloud-monitoring-service-stackdriver/|title=Google Acquires Cloud Monitoring Service Stackdriver|first=Frederic|last=Lardinois|website=techcrunch.com|date=7 May 2014 |accessdate=5 May 2017}}</ref> An expanded version of the product (adding support for logs analysis, hybrid cloud support, and deep integration with [[Google Cloud Platform|Google Cloud]]) was rebranded as '''Google Stackdriver''' and was launched to general availability in October, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/Google-Stackdriver-Generally-Available.html|title=Google Stackdriver is now generally available for hybrid cloud monitoring, logging and diagnostics|website=googleblog.com|accessdate=5 May 2017}}</ref>

[[File:Stackdriver UI.jpg.png|thumb|right|The Stackdriver UI]]

Its features include, but are not limited to:

*Compatible with [[Amazon Web Services|AWS]] and [[Rackspace Cloud|Rackspace]]

*Supporting application, system and infrastructure level metrics ([[Cloud computing#Service models|'Full Stack Monitoring']])

*Interactive colored graphs and charts of data (see UI screenshot on right)

*Create and customize groups and dashboards

*Input custom metrics

*Receive alerts when there are anomalies

Stackdriver's long-term goal is to automate common tasks, with the aim of saving customers' time.<ref>[http://www.stackdriver.com/product/ Stackdriver Product Page] Retrieved 7 May 2013.</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Amazon Web Services]]

* [[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud]]

* [[Rackspace Cloud]]

* [[Cloud Computing]]

As of October 2020, the name Stackdriver has been deprecated to [https://cloud.google.com/products/operations Google Cloud Operations].

==References==

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Cloud computing]]

== External links ==

[[Category:Google acquisitions]]

* {{Official website|http://www.stackdriver.com/}}

* [[Category:Amazon Web Services]]

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[[Category:CloudSystem computing providersmonitors]]

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