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Stackdriver is remarkably awesome for log aggregation, storage, and querying. Uptime checks to arbitrary HTTP endpoints are fantastic!

Not sure about other use cases such as visualization and triggering events. I assume they have an API or integrations for such things, just haven't needed it as of yet.

Their pricing changed recently, don't remember the details, but I do remember previously that non Google Cloud nodes did incur an additional cost. Free limits are decent, haven't paid yet for personal side stuff. But YMMV, check the pricing page https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing