Crowsnest vs Google Cloud IoT Core: What are the differences?

What is Crowsnest? Crash Analytics for the Internet of Things. Quickly diagnose or even preempt customer problems on a per-unit or global basis. Immediate access to historical data about product behavior leading to a problem or crash.

What is Google Cloud IoT Core? A fully managed service to easily and securely connect, manage, and ingest data from globally dispersed devices. Cloud IoT Core is a fully managed service that allows you to easily and securely connect, manage, and ingest data from millions of globally dispersed devices. Cloud IoT Core, in combination with other services on Google Cloud IoT platform, provides a complete solution for collecting, processing, analyzing, and visualizing IoT data in real time to support improved operational efficiency.

Crowsnest and Google Cloud IoT Core can be categorized as "Internet of Things Services" tools.

Some of the features offered by Crowsnest are:

• Actionable diagnostics
• Report errors, warnings, and info in real time, in batches, or only after system crashes, depending on your product's needs
• Lightweight C SDK

On the other hand, Google Cloud IoT Core provides the following key features:

• End-to-end security
• Single global system
• Out-of-box data insights