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AWS CloudTrail vs Stackdriver: What are the differences?
AWS CloudTrail: Record AWS API calls for your account and have log files delivered to you. With CloudTrail, you can get a history of AWS API calls for your account, including API calls made via the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and higher-level AWS services (such as AWS CloudFormation). The AWS API call history produced by CloudTrail enables security analysis, resource change tracking, and compliance auditing. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, the request parameters, and the response elements returned by the AWS service; Stackdriver: Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for applications on Google Cloud Platform and AWS. Google Stackdriver provides powerful monitoring, logging, and diagnostics. It equips you with insight into the health, performance, and availability of cloud-powered applications, enabling you to find and fix issues faster.
AWS CloudTrail can be classified as a tool in the "Log Management" category, while Stackdriver is grouped under "Cloud Monitoring".
Some of the features offered by AWS CloudTrail are:
- Increased Visibility- CloudTrail provides increased visibility into your user activity by recording AWS API calls. You can answer questions such as, what actions did a given user take over a given time period? For a given resource, which user has taken actions on it over a given time period? What is the source IP address of a given activity? Which activities failed due to inadequate permissions?
- Durable and Inexpensive Log File Storage- CloudTrail uses Amazon S3 for log file storage and delivery, so log files are stored durably and inexpensively. You can use Amazon S3 lifecycle configuration rules to further reduce storage costs. For example, you can define rules to automatically delete old log files or archive them to Amazon Glacier for additional savings.
- Easy Administration- CloudTrail is a fully managed service
On the other hand, Stackdriver provides the following key features:
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Diagnostics
"Very easy setup" is the top reason why over 6 developers like AWS CloudTrail, while over 10 developers mention "Monitoring" as the leading cause for choosing Stackdriver.
According to the StackShare community, Stackdriver has a broader approval, being mentioned in 58 company stacks & 18 developers stacks; compared to AWS CloudTrail, which is listed in 38 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.
Pros of AWS CloudTrail
- Very easy setup7
- Good integrations with 3rd party tools3
- Very powerful2
- Backup to S32
Pros of Stackdriver
- Monitoring19
- Logging11
- Alerting8
- Tracing7
- Uptime Monitoring6
- Error Reporting5
- Multi-cloud4
- Production debugger3
- Many integrations2
- Backed by Google1
- Configured basically with GAE1
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Cons of AWS CloudTrail
Cons of Stackdriver
- Not free2