Google Cloud Trace vs Pinpoint
Google Cloud Trace
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| Figure | Google Cloud Trace | Pinpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.20/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Distributed Tracing Tools | 7.8 (#14) | 8.2 (#9) |
| Spec score · Runtime Monitoring Software | 7.6 (#30) | 8.2 (#21) |
| Instrumentation | Google recommends OpenTelemetry, with Go, Java, Node.js, and Python instrumentation samples. | The Pinpoint Agent uses bytecode instrumentation to trace calls without requiring application code modifications. |
| Integrations | Cloud Logging entries can be associated with traces and spans, and displayed alongside trace waterfall graphs or in Logs Explorer. | The supported modules list includes technologies such as Tomcat, Spring Boot, gRPC, Kafka, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB. |
| Purpose | Cloud Trace collects latency data to help troubleshoot performance bottlenecks across services and generative AI applications. | Pinpoint is an APM tool for large-scale distributed systems that traces transactions across distributed applications. |
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Google Cloud Trace
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Pinpoint
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