# Groundcover vs Last9

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Groundcover

| Attribute | Groundcover | Last9 |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 72.7 (73% (medium)) | 48.4 (72% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"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}]` | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What is Last9?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Is Last9 free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 supports the web, iOS, Android and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What platforms does Last9 support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Last9, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Can Last9 be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 54 integrations for Last9, including Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Zenduty and Google Chat, plus 46 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What does Last9 integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Last9. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Last9 not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What security certifications does Last9 have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the United Kingdom. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Where is Last9 available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | Last9 enables teams to monitor applications and infrastructure through metrics, logs, and traces collected via OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. It offers service discovery, real-user performance monitoring, threshold-based and anomaly detection alerting, service-level objective tracking, and dashboarding for visibility across cloud infrastructure and applications. |
| 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":"cloud","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` |
| integrations.count | 27 | 100 |
| integrations.list | `[{"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"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"Zenduty"},{"name":"Google Chat"},{"name":"Flock"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"ArgoCD"},{"name":"Buildkite"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"ECS"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"DynamoDB"},{"name":"RDS"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"Neo4j"},{"name":"Flask"},{"name":"Django"},{"name":"FastAPI"},{"name":"Express.js"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"Spring Boot"},{"name":"Laravel"},{"name":"Go"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"CloudWatch"},{"name":"Loki"},{"name":"Fluent Bit"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"iOS"},{"name":"Android"},{"name":"Flutter"},{"name":"React Native"},{"name":"Grafana Loki","category":"logs"},{"name":"Grafana Tempo","category":"tracing"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch","category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS Lambda","category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS ECS","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Azure Monitor","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Google Cloud","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Datadog Agent","category":"observability"},{"name":"Elastic Logstash","category":"logs"},{"name":"n8n","category":"workflow"},{"name":"Spinnaker","category":"ci_cd"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot","category":"ai"},{"name":"Claude Cowork","category":"ai"},{"name":"Grafana","native":true,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"iac","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Claude","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Argo Rollouts","native":true,"category":"deployment","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS CloudFront","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Fastly","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Akamai","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Cloud Functions","native":true,"category":"compute","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Apache","native":true,"category":"web_server","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Nginx","native":true,"category":"web_server","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"MariaDB","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Cloudflare","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` |
| pricing | `{"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"]}` | `{"type":"free","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://last9.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T23:06:22.032Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | free |
| pricing.price_level | mid | free |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":30,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | https://www.groundcover.com/learn/security | - |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Groundcover | Last9 |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 only |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:56:25.673Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*