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'''Google Stackdriver''' is a [[freemium]] [[cloud computing]] [[systems management]] service offered by [[Google]]. It provides performance and diagnostics data (in the form of monitoring, logging, tracing, error reporting, and alerting) to [[public cloud]] users. Stackdriver is a hybrid cloud solution, providing support for both [[Google Cloud]] and [[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>

== History ==

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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=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> A much-expanded version of the product (adding support for logs analysis, hybrid cloud support, and deep integration with [[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 ==

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

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