Google today announced that it has acquired cloud monitoring service Stackdriver. The company plans to roll many of the service’s features into its Cloud Platform
in the coming months. The financial details of the acquisition weren’t
disclosed, but the company has raised a total of $15 million in venture
funding in two rounds led by Bain Capital and Flybridge Capital
respectively.
Stackdriver, which launched in 2012, allows its users to monitor
their cloud applications, automate some of the devops when things go
wrong and see detailed stats about how they are using their cloud
platforms.
The service is mostly known for monitoring Amazon Web Services but it
also supports monitoring individual servers, Rackspace’s cloud services
and Google Cloud Engine instances. When I talked to the company last year after
it raised its Series B funding round, Stackdriver co-founder Izzy Azeri
and Dan Belcher told me they were going to focus more on adding support
for additional services, a focus that clearly paid off given today’s
acquisition.
According to Google, the company will continue to offer all of its
existing services going forward and will provide users with tools for
working in a hybrid cloud environment. For the time being, the team will
focus on integrating the service with the Google Cloud Platform,
however, so that Google’s customers “can take advantage of these new
advanced monitoring capabilities.”
Today’s acquisition news comes at an interesting time for Google’s cloud platform. Since starting a small price war
in the cloud storage space a few weeks ago and launching a wide range
of new services for its cloud storage and computation services, it sure
feels like Google is taking this business unit very seriously right now.
Amazon Web Services remains the leader in this space for the time
being, but it doesn’t offer any easy-to-use monitoring services, for
example.
"Adding services like Stackdriver will also allow Google to make its
platform stand out in the market, especially as cloud computing gets
commoditized with prices continuing to trend lower and few options to
differentiate based on the core compute and storage services all the
players now offer"
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