Google Cloud Trace vs Tencent Cloud Application Performance Management
Google Cloud Trace
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| Figure | Google Cloud Trace | Tencent Cloud Application Performance Management |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.20/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 17 |
| Spec score · Distributed Tracing Tools | 7.8 (#14) | 8.4 (#8) |
| Instrumentation | Google recommends OpenTelemetry, with Go, Java, Node.js, and Python instrumentation samples. | The product page says applications can be monitored in real time with probes and no code modifications. |
| Security controls | Cloud Trace supports VPC Service Controls and uses Identity and Access Management to control access to resources. | APM supports Cloud Access Management policies for full read/write, read-only, and business-system-level access control. |
| Supported environments | Trace runs on Linux in Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Apigee (Public Preview), App Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Service Mesh, Cloud SQL query insights, and non-Google Cloud environments. | Applications outside Tencent Cloud can connect if network access to APM is available, using a public endpoint or private connectivity such as Direct Connect to Tencent Cloud VPC. |
Plans
Tencent Cloud Application Performance Management
- Developer Experience PackagePrice not published
- Developer Experience PackagePriced on request
- Developer Standard PackagePriced on request
- Developer Standard PackagePrice not published
- Enterprise Basic PackagePriced on request
- Enterprise Basic PackagePrice not published
- Enterprise Professional PackagePriced on request
- Enterprise Professional PackagePrice not published
- Flagship PackagePrice not published
- Flagship PackagePriced on request
In their own words
Google Cloud Trace
Google Cloud Trace has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Tencent Cloud Application Performance Management
Tencent Cloud Application Performance Management (APM) monitors application performance through metrics, traces and logs, and supports analysis and troubleshooting across distributed architectures. It uses probes to monitor applications in real time without code modifications. Traces map request paths across microservices and can include request parameters, transaction data, errors, exceptions, method stacks and instance environment details. APM also discovers application dependencies and shows global topologies for examining application and component bottlenecks.
Its analysis groups performance and exception metrics by dimensions such as API, exception and database call, helping identify slow APIs, SQL statements and recurring exceptions. Named database integrations include MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB and Redis. APM supports OpenTelemetry and works with SkyWalking and Jaeger tracing protocols when reporting configuration is changed. It can associate traces with Cloud Log Service logs, display Cloud Monitor dashboards, and send traces to CKafka with configuration and permissions. Applications outside Tencent Cloud can connect when network access is available. New users receive a 15-day trial, limited to 100 million reported Spans and seven-day trace storage; pay-as-you-go also lists one million Spans per day free for reporting and retention. Pricing includes a $0.02 a month pay-as-you-go rate billed hourly per million Spans reported, plus retention at 0.012 USD per million Spans per day.