[MUSIC PLAYING]
DAN BELCHER: Boston has a great heritage for not
only technology, but specifically,
for technology related to business
to business and infrastructure.
Stackdriver was founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
We founded the company in 2012.
It's been really exciting to watch
Stackdriver grow and evolve.
Now deploying Stackdriver across Google infrastructure
and taking advantage of all these exciting Google
technologies, goes beyond anything
that we could have expected only two years ago.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
DAN BELCHER: Hi I'm Dan Belcher.
I'm the lead product manager for operations on the Google Cloud
team.
Prior, I was one of the founders of Stackdriver.
When we started Stackdriver, we really
didn't have a specific product in mind.
Instead, we were really interested
in the growth in the public cloud.
And what we did is we reached out
to hundreds of customers that were running applications
in the cloud and asked them what their pain points were.
What we found is that a lot of customers
had disparate tools for monitoring the cloud platform,
their systems, their application,
uptime, and so forth.
And it was really difficult for them
to not only manage those systems,
but to look across those systems to identify and troubleshoot
those issues.
And so when we built Stackdriver,
we built one service that brought all those capabilities
together.
PHILIP JACOB: Stackdriver is a performance and availability
monitoring for public cloud infrastructure.
So, you connect us to your cloud infrastructure,
either on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform,
and we'll show you everything that's happening
inside your infrastructure.
We take on the burden of helping you visualize and run
your application successfully on the cloud.
Without Stackdriver, you've got to set up
all kinds of different tooling, logging, monitoring,
dashboarding.
And we make it really powerful and simple
and really easy to get started.
ANDRE KELLY: I think Stackdriver means a lot of excitement when
it comes to reducing the number of applications one
needs to manage their system.
So being able to bring that in one place
alleviates a lot of problems for their ops.
They're able to see how the entire infrastructure is
performing health-wise and performance.
We also provide some great tools that
are industry leading in terms of being able to do
multi-conditional learning.
So now that you have all the signals coming in to one place,
you can then tailor alerts to be very specific to conditions
that you're monitoring or relate to an incident
that you've received in the past.
ERIC SILVA: I think custom metrics
are one of the most interesting parts of Stackdriver.
As an application developer, you know
which metrics are the best indicators of system health.
So you don't want to necessarily wait for system metrics
like CPU or memory usage to rise before you're
alerted to a problem.
Using custom metrics, you can monitor
things that are specific to your application that give you
an earlier indication of a problem.
They allow you to react more quickly
because you know which metrics are important in your system.
DEEPAK TIWARI: We are also very excited about some
of the advanced features like anomaly detection and insights
that we'll bring to this product.
So people can actually get proactive insights
on the product rather than just manually
setting up alerts and looking at incidents.
I primarily focus on our logging product.
Our logging product really is a tool
that we have built that works at scale
and can look at large enterprise scale
customers who are sending us gigabytes
per second scale of logs.
We give them a platform to visualize those logs.
And we also work with those customers
to give them more analytics capabilities on top of the data
so they can make IT ops, operational, business,
analytical, as well as security-related decisions,
find them quickly and take action.
Monitoring, alerting, incident management,
logging, together into one place.
What Stackdriver promises is that it
will make it easier, more streamlined and faster
to find and fix issues.
PHILIP JACOB: Stackdriver has always
been about making operations easier.
For many people running applications on the cloud,
Stackdriver will be the only tool
that you need for monitoring and logging.
You'll have one interface, one place
to go to help you identify, troubleshoot,
and resolve issues.
Google acquired Stackdriver because we share a vision
around creating insight out of all this data
that we're bringing together.
And so it's good to be among a larger group that
believes in the same things.
[MUSIC PLAYING]