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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]{{dead link|date=May 2017}}</ref> In May 2014, they were acquired by [[Google]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://social.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|accessdate=5 May 2017}}</ref> In October 2016, Stackdriver became generally available.<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>

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>

== History ==

Stackdriver the company was created in 2012, whenby 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 problems that companies encounter when running large, distributed applications on public cloud infrastructureAzeri.<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> BelcherThe andcompany's Azerigoal describedwas theto factprovide that respondents wereconsistent monitoring theiracross cloud infrastructurecomputing's and applications using a range of [[open-source software]] tools, each covering amultiple [[Cloud computing#Service models|differentservice layerlayers]]., It then became their goal to combine these different levels of monitoring intousing a single [[Cloud computing#Service models|SaaS]] solution.{{solution-inline|date=August 2019}}<ref>{{cite newsweb |url last=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/02/stackdriver_intelligent_monitoring/Morgan | first=Timothy Prickett | title=Stackdriver fluffs up cloudy management tool|first1=2 May 2013 at|last1=17:29|first2=Timothy|last2=Prickett Morgan|workwebsite=[[The Register]] |accessdate date=52 May 20172013 | url=https://www.theregister.com/2013/05/02/stackdriver_intelligent_monitoring}}</ref>

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.

Stackdriver's founders secured $5 million funding from [[Bain Capital Ventures]] 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>{{cite web|url=http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/startup-stackdriver-snags-stylefeeder-founder-as-cto/|title=Startup Stackdriver snags StyleFeeder founder|first=Barb|last=Darrow|date=27 September 2012|website=gigaom.com|accessdate=5 May 2017}}</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>{{cite web|url=http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2013/02/stackdriver_assembling_team_of.html|title=Stackdriver assembling team of tech veterans to take on application management in the cloud|first=Scott|last=Kirsner|date=26 February 2013|publisher=|accessdate=5 May 2017|via=The Boston Globe}}</ref> A [[Software release life cycle#Beta|beta version]] of the product became publicly available on April 30, 2013.

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>

== 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.

[[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 [[Google Cloud Platform|Google Cloud]]

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

* Interactive colored graphs and charts of data

* Create and customize groups and dashboards

* Input custom metrics

* Receive alerts when there are anomalies

== See also ==

* [[Amazon Web Services]]

* [[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud]]

* [[Google Cloud Platform|Google Cloud]]

* [[Cloud computing]]

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

==References==

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* [[Category:Cloud computing]]

== External links ==

* {{Official website|https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/}}

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[[Category:Companies based in Boston]]

[[Category:Google acquisitions]]

* [[Category:Amazon Web Services]]

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[[Category:System monitors]]

[[Category:Bain Capital companies]]