have a close connection with its subject . it may require cleanup to comply with wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view . please discuss further on the talk page . may 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message stackdriver type private company industry systems management founded 2012 headquarters boston massachusetts united states number of employees 21 parent alphabet inc. website stackdriver.com stackdriver is a cloud computing systems management firm based in boston massachusetts . they aim to help devops manage large distributed applications running in the public cloud . it visualizes application system and infrastructure metrics and also provides a policy system to alert users when predefined thresholds are breached . following a 5 million investment by bain capital ventures in 2012 they entered public beta on april 30 2013 . 1 in may 2014 they were acquired 2 by google . contents 1 history 2 features 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit stackdriver was created in 2012 when founders dan belcher and izzy azeri former coworkers from vmware created the concept based on a survey of companies using aws and rackspace . the survey results and subsequent interviews highlighted many challenges that companies encounter when running large distributed applications on public cloud infrastructure . 3 belcher and azeri described the fact that respondents were monitoring their cloud infrastructure and applications using a range of open source tools each covering a different layer . it then became their goal to combine these different levels of monitoring into a single saas solution . 4 stackdriver s founders secured 5 million funding from bain in july 2012 and hired a team including engineers from red hat acquia and emc as well as stylefeeder founder phil jacob . 5 after opening an office at downtown crossing in boston development of stackdriver intelligent monitoring began in fall 2012 and within months the staff had grown to 15 . 6 a beta version of the product became publicly available on april 30 2013 . advisors to stackdriver include george kassabgi co founder keas.com serial entrepreneur tom roloff senior vice president emc dale christian cio bill & melinda gates foundation ben matheson amazon web services vmware microsoft and shmuel kliger founder & cto vmturbo . features edit the aim of stackdriver intelligent monitoring is to improve the performance and availability of large complex applications running in the public cloud . to that end it provides metrics detailing every layer of the stack in the form of charts and graphs while also allowing users to receive alerts when these metrics breach normal levels . the stackdriver ui its features include but are not limited to compatible with amazon web services aws and google cloud supporting application system and infrastructure level metrics full stack monitoring interactive colored graphs and charts of data see ui screenshot on right create and customize groups and dashboards input custom metrics receive alerts when there are anomalies stackdriver s long term goal is to automate common tasks with the aim of saving customers time . 7 see also edit amazon web services amazon elastic compute cloud google cloud cloud computing references edit equities global financial network retrieved 2 may 2013 . stackdriver homepage announcement boston business journal retrieved 2 may 2013 . the register retrieved 2 may 2013 . gigaom retrieved 2 may 2013 . boston globe retrieved 2 may 2013 . stackdriver product page retrieved 7 may 2013 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title stackdriver & oldid 743301851 categories companies established in 2012cloud computing providerscompanies based in bostonhidden categories wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from may 2013pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 01 23 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view