The company offers a powerfully simple monitoring service for cloud-powered applications that helps DevOps focus on development rather than operations. Stackdriver's Intelligent Monitoring includes features such as Rapid Stack Discovery, Stack Scanner, Elastic Monitoring, and AWS Insights, which enable customers to monitor dynamic and ephemeral resources without manually updating alerting policies and dashboards. Hundreds of innovative companies, including Smugmug, 99designs, and Vocalocity, have standardized on Stackdriver for system and infrastructure monitoring. Stackdriver was acquired by Google in May 2014 and is now part of the Google Cloud Platform.