Google Stackdriver was a

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service offered by

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. It provided performance and diagnostics data (in the form of monitoring, logging, tracing, error reporting, and alerting) to

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users. Stackdriver was a multi-cloud solution, providing support for both

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and AWS cloud environments. Google ended use of the Stackdriver brand in February 2020.

History

Stackdriver the company was created in 2012 by founders Dan Belcher and Izzy Azeri. The company's goal was to provide consistent monitoring across cloud computing's multiple service layers, using a single

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solution. Stackdriver secured

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5 million funding from

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in July 2012. A beta version of the product became publicly available on April 30, 2013. In May 2014, the Stackdriver company was acquired by

. An expanded version of the product (adding support for logs analysis, hybrid cloud support, and deep integration with

) was rebranded as Google Stackdriver and was launched to general availability in October, 2016. As of October 2020, the name Stackdriver has been deprecated t
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