Stackdriver is an incredibly poorly designed, communicated, and implemented piece of software. It's not clear what it's good at or what you're supposed to use it for.
Random, completely noncontrived example:
1. Oh, GCP wants me to use stackdriver for logging.
2. Okay, I will click stackdriver.
3. I have to reauth and am taken to another website with completely different UI than GCP.
4. I click into logs.
5. I am taken BACK to GCP, with some "stackdriver" branded logs experience.
6. Exporting, slicing, or otherwise doing anything with these logs is pretty much a nightmare.
that said the rest of GCP is pretty good, but its clear that certain parts of it have been given very little design thought, comparatively
the stackdriver logging UI is not very useful but it allows archiving the logs to BigQuery. That opens up a lot of possibilities. You can slice and dice to your heart's content. It's not perfect (UI is bit clunky, saved queries and results seem to be visible only to the person who created it) but quite powerful and useful
Random, completely noncontrived example:
that said the rest of GCP is pretty good, but its clear that certain parts of it have been given very little design thought, comparatively