Stackdriver Google Cloud Observability
Legacy names Stackdriver, Google Stackdriver, Google Cloud's operations suite
Umbrella suite for Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Cloud Profiler, and Error Reporting.
Naming timeline
- Stackdriver
Google Stackdriver monitoring, logging, and diagnostics suite launched on Google Cloud (following Google's May 2014 acquisition of Stackdriver).
- Google Cloud's operations suite
Rebranded from Stackdriver to Google Cloud's operations suite.
- Google Cloud ObservabilityCurrent name
Rebranded from Google Cloud's operations suite to Google Cloud Observability.
What is Stackdriver called now?
Stackdriver is now called Google Cloud Observability, with the latest change in April 2023. Earlier names covered by this entry also include Google Stackdriver, Google Cloud's operations suite. Umbrella suite for Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Cloud Profiler, and Error Reporting. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.
Also known as
- Cloud Monitoring
- Cloud Logging
- Cloud Trace
- Cloud Profiler
- Error Reporting
Technical identifiers
Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.
| REST / gRPC APIs | monitoring.googleapis.com logging.googleapis.com cloudtrace.googleapis.com cloudprofiler.googleapis.com observability.googleapis.com |
|---|---|
| gcloud / CLI Commands | gcloud monitoring gcloud logging gcloud trace gcloud observability |
| IAM Predefined Roles | roles/monitoring.* roles/logging.* roles/cloudtrace.* roles/cloudprofiler.* roles/observability.* |
| Terraform Resources | google_monitoring_* google_logging_* google_observability_* |
Canonical docs URL path remains /stackdriver/docs; core telemetry endpoints remain monitoring.googleapis.com, logging.googleapis.com, cloudtrace.googleapis.com, and cloudprofiler.googleapis.com alongside observability.googleapis.com.
Notes & disambiguation
- Documentation continues to be served under the legacy https://docs.cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs URL path.
- Individual telemetry services retain their service-specific APIs (monitoring.googleapis.com, logging.googleapis.com, cloudtrace.googleapis.com, cloudprofiler.googleapis.com), while observability buckets, scopes, and settings use the newer Observability API (observability.googleapis.com) and gcloud observability CLI (GA in September 2026).
Sources & official documentation
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