# Better Stack vs Groundcover

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Groundcover

| Attribute | Better Stack | Groundcover |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 66 (72% (medium)) | 72.7 (73% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Better Stack provides observability tools including a collector that uses eBPF technology to instrument Kubernetes and Docker environments, gathering logs, metrics, and OpenTelemetry traces without requiring code modifications. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://betterstack.com","question":"What is Better Stack?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Better Stack offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $25 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"Is Better Stack free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Better Stack supports the web, iOS and Android. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does Better Stack support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Better Stack, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"Can Better Stack be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 23 integrations for Better Stack, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, GitHub, Grafana, Datadog, Notion and Sentry, plus 15 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://betterstack.com","question":"What does Better Stack integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Better Stack. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Better Stack not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://betterstack.com/security","question":"What security certifications does Better Stack have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Better Stack is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"Where is Better Stack available?","confidence":0.5}]` | `[{"answer":"A cloud-native observability solution that collects metrics, logs, and distributed traces using eBPF sensors with native OpenTelemetry support. Data processing and storage remain within customer-owned clouds or on-premises infrastructure, with integrations for third-party data sources and monitoring tools. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://www.groundcover.com/pricing","question":"What is Groundcover?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Groundcover offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $30 per host per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.groundcover.com/pricing","question":"Is Groundcover free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Groundcover supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.groundcover.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does Groundcover support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Groundcover can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.groundcover.com/pricing","question":"Can Groundcover be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 28 integrations for Groundcover, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Slack, Linear, OpenTelemetry, MCP and Terraform, plus 20 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.groundcover.com/pricing","question":"What does Groundcover integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Groundcover. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Groundcover not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://trust.groundcover.com","question":"What security certifications does Groundcover have?","confidence":0.7}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Cloud-native observability platform that consolidates log management, metrics, distributed tracing, infrastructure monitoring, and incident management with built-in on-call scheduling and AI-powered incident investigation capabilities. | An observability platform that uses eBPF sensors deployed at the edge to collect logs, metrics, and traces across cloud infrastructure. Offers both cloud-hosted and self-hosted deployment options with per-host pricing and native OpenTelemetry support. |
| features.capabilities | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"cloud","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"both","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` |
| integrations.count | 15 | 27 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"Notion"},{"name":"Sentry"},{"name":"Zapier"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Zabbix"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"New Relic"},{"name":"Mixpanel"},{"name":"Intercom"},{"name":"Front"},{"name":"Drift"},{"name":"Terraform Provider"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Helm","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"NLog","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Calendar","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Outlook Calendar","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Webhooks","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"REST API","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Claude","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Codex","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Cursor","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"}]` | `[{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"MCP"},{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Prometheus","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Real User Monitoring","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS S3","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Cloud Monitoring","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Cloud Pub/Sub","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"MongoDB Atlas","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Redis Cloud","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Datadog","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Istio","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"FluentBit","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"FluentD","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"RabbitMQ","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Cloudflare","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"GitHub","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Claude Code","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Claude Cowork","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"OpenClaw","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"OpenAI Codex","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Kiro","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch Logs","native":false,"category":"logs","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"OpsGenie","native":false,"category":"incident_management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"incident.io","native":false,"category":"incident_management","direction":"outbound"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","features":["10 monitors & heartbeats","1 status page","Slack & e-mail alerts","100,000 exceptions per month","3 GB logs retained for 3 days","30 GB metrics"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Personal projects","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"metrics":"30 GB","monitors":"10","status_pages":"1","logs_retention":"3 GB for 3 days","exceptions_per_month":"100,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Standard with Single Responder","summary":"$34/month or $29/month billed annually","features":["Single responder with unlimited phone call alerts","Incident management","On-call scheduling","Monitoring","Status pages"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":34,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Incident management with single responder","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Logs","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.08,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Logs (Annual)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.05,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Metrics","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.75,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Metrics (Annual)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.5,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"External Monitoring","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"External Monitoring (Annual)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":21,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Transaction Monitoring (Playwright)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Transaction Monitoring (Playwright, Annual)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":17,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Status Page","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":15,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Status Page (Annual)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":12,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Call Routing","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":250,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Call Routing (Annual)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":208,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Per Responder License","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"responder","amount":9,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Reporting & Analytics","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"member","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Reporting & Analytics (Annual)","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"member","amount":4,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"User Management","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"user","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier for personal projects. Paid plans start at $29/month billed annually with per-component metered pricing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-05T11:11:16.207Z","startingPrice":{"amount":34,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free forever","features":["12 hour data retention","Slack Community support","No credit card required"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Exploration tier with limited data retention","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"data_retention":"12 hours"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$30/host/mo","features":["All available integrations and data sources","SSO support","Standard data retention","Standard support","BYOC deployment"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"host","amount":30,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For teams of all sizes who like to move fast","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"$35/host/mo","features":["Everything in Pro plan","RBAC support","Unlimited data retention","Premium support","24x7x365 on-call availability"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"host","amount":35,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For organizations in need of reliability at scale","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"On Premise","summary":"$50/host/mo","features":["Everything in Enterprise plan","Self-hosted data plane","Self-hosted UI","Isolated authentication","Full on-premises deployment"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"host","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For high-compliance or regulated environments","contactSales":true}],"summary":"From $30/host/mo (Pro). Free tier available. Transparent per-host pricing with no ingestion-based charges.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.groundcover.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T23:03:41.703Z","startingPrice":{"amount":30,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | mid | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":34,"currency":"USD"}` | `{"amount":30,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO/IEC 27001","status":"active","auditor":"DIN"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | - | https://www.groundcover.com/learn/security |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Better Stack | Groundcover |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Signals** |  |  |
| Metrics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Log management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Distributed tracing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Application performance monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-user monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Response** |  |  |
| Alerting | ✓ | ✓ |
| On-call / incident management | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Insight** |  |  |
| Dashboards | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry-native | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:15:10.285Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*