G2 Vendor Directory

Google Cloud Audit Logs vs. Elastic Observability

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricGoogle Cloud Audit Logs

by Google

Elastic Observability

by Elastic

Overall rating4.14.3
Review count14138
Ease of use9.18.1
Ease of setup9.17.7
Quality of support8.88.4
Meets requirements9.58.9
NPS35.71428655.645161
Small Business28.6%23.5%
Mid-Market35.7%37.5%
Enterprise35.7%39.0%
Total page views26894
Total LLM citations308,774

Google Cloud Audit Logs

Google Cloud Audit Logs is a comprehensive service that automatically records administrative and data access activities within Google Cloud resources. It provides organizations with detailed logs of actions performed on their cloud infrastructure, enhancing security, compliance, and operational transparency. Key Features and Functionality: - Automatic Logging: Captures audit events across Google Cloud services without the need for manual configuration or agent installation.

Pros

  • Insights
  • Integrations
  • Log Management

Elastic Observability

OpenTelemetry-native observability for fast, AI-driven root cause analysis Search, analyze, and act with logs, metrics, and traces. SRE leaders aim to proactively prevent downtime, simplify tool stacks, and reduce toil, but multi-cloud complexity and fragmented toolsets create visibility gaps that make it hard to stay ahead. OTel-native and AI-powered, Elastic Observability ingests and correlates petabytes of telemetry across your applications, services, and infrastructure, in real-time.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Monitoring
  • Alerting System
  • Log Management
  • Metrics
  • Features