Groundcover vs Last9
On the evidence we track, Groundcover leads this comparison with a composite score of 71/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for observability tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Groundcover
LeaderFull-stack observability for Kubernetes and cloud environments that automatically collects logs, metrics, traces, and events using eBPF technology without code changes. Deployed within your cloud infrastructure or on-premises, with AI agents to automate investigation and troubleshooting, and predictable per-host pricing model.
Last9
A unified observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and Prometheus that manages logs, metrics, and traces with high-cardinality storage. It includes AI-assisted incident investigation, real-time alerting, and user monitoring capabilities.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Groundcover
LeaderFrom $30/host/mo (Pro). Free tier available. Transparent per-host pricing with no ingestion-based charges.
- FreeFree
- 12 hour data retention
- Slack Community support
- No credit card required
- Pro$30/host/mo
- All available integrations and data sources
- SSO support
- Standard data retention
- Standard support
- BYOC deployment
- Enterprise$35/host/mo
- Everything in Pro plan
- RBAC support
- Unlimited data retention
- Premium support
- 24x7x365 on-call availability
- On PremiseContact sales
- Everything in Enterprise plan
- Self-hosted data plane
- Self-hosted UI
- Isolated authentication
- Full on-premises deployment
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- AWS
- Slack
- OpenTelemetry
Groundcover
Leader- Google Cloud Platform
- Microsoft Azure
- AWS CloudWatch
- Linear
- MCP
- Terraform
Last9
- PagerDuty
- Opsgenie
- Jira
- Microsoft Teams
- Telegram
- Zenduty
- Google Chat
- Flock
- Webhook
- GitHub Actions
- ArgoCD
- Buildkite
- Jenkins
- Azure
- GCP
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- ECS
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Oracle
- DynamoDB
- +23 more
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.