# Elastic Observability vs Groundcover

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Groundcover

| Attribute | Elastic Observability | Groundcover |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 57.8 (53% (medium)) | 72.7 (73% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 18,551 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 78,270 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A unified observability platform that ingests logs, metrics, and traces to provide real-time system insights powered by AI agents. Elastic Observability automates root cause analysis and incident response while maintaining operator visibility and control, with support for open standards and multi-cloud deployment. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"What is Elastic Observability?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elastic Observability does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 3 plans (Free, Platinum and Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"How much does Elastic Observability cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elastic Observability supports the web, Windows, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"What platforms does Elastic Observability support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Elastic Observability can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"Can Elastic Observability be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 35 integrations for Elastic Observability, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Jina AI, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Mistral, Cohere and Meta, plus 27 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"What does Elastic Observability integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Elastic Observability. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elastic Observability not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/trust/ai-data-faq","question":"What security certifications does Elastic Observability have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Elastic Observability is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the United Kingdom. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"Where is Elastic Observability available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"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 | A cloud monitoring platform that consolidates logs, metrics, and distributed traces from applications and infrastructure, using AI to help teams identify root causes and resolve incidents faster. | 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":"both","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 | 450 | 27 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Jina AI"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI Service"},{"name":"Google Vertex AI"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Meta"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"IBM watsonx"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"LlamaIndex"},{"name":"Unstructured.io"},{"name":"Aryn"},{"name":"Vectorize.io"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"xMatters"},{"name":"IBM Resilient"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Beats"},{"name":"Filebeat"},{"name":"Metricbeat"},{"name":"Heartbeat"},{"name":"Elastic Agent"},{"name":"Red Hat"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker JumpStart","category":"ai"},{"name":"Claude","category":"ai"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot CLI","category":"ai"},{"name":"Terraform","category":"infrastructure"}]` | `[{"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"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | - |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Gold","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Platinum","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Subscription-based with Gold, Platinum, and Enterprise tiers available.","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/observability","retrievedAt":"2026-10-15T09:20:44.575Z"}` | `{"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 | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":30,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.5","date":"2026-10-06T14:01:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.8","date":"2026-10-06T14:01:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.23","date":"2026-10-06T14:01:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.23"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.22","date":"2026-09-23T15:20:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.22"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.4","date":"2026-09-15T18:19:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.7","date":"2026-09-15T18:19:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.3","date":"2026-09-03T10:08:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.6","date":"2026-09-01T12:51:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.21","date":"2026-09-01T12:53:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.21"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.2","date":"2026-08-20T16:44:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.1","date":"2026-08-11T17:58:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.5","date":"2026-08-11T17:57:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.20","date":"2026-08-11T18:24:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.20"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.0","date":"2026-08-04T11:46:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.4","date":"2026-07-21T12:56:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.8","date":"2026-07-21T12:56:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.19","date":"2026-07-21T13:28:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.19"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.18","date":"2026-06-30T16:43:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.18"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.7","date":"2026-06-30T16:47:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.3","date":"2026-06-30T14:30:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.3"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 5.6 | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-compliance | https://www.groundcover.com/learn/security |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":45,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.elasticsearch%3Aelasticsearch&per_page=100","last_12m":2,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | - |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Elastic Observability | 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 + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T18:31:53.272Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*