Groundcover vs Nagios
On the evidence we track, Groundcover leads this comparison with a composite score of 73/100. 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
LeaderAn 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.
Nagios
An open-source platform for monitoring servers, networks, applications, and cloud infrastructure using active polling, with log analysis and visualization 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.
- Slack
- Prometheus
Groundcover
Leader- AWS
- Google Cloud Platform
- Microsoft Azure
- AWS CloudWatch
- Linear
- OpenTelemetry
- MCP
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Real User Monitoring
- Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS S3
- Google Cloud Monitoring
- Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- MongoDB Atlas
- Redis Cloud
- Datadog
- Istio
- FluentBit
- FluentD
- RabbitMQ
- Cloudflare
- GitHub
- Claude Code
- +7 more
Nagios
- Grafana
- InfluxDB
- Apache
- Nginx
- IIS
- Tomcat
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- MongoDB
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- JBoss
- WebLogic
- Citrix
- PagerDuty
- ServiceNow
- DB2
- EC2
- VMware
- Hyper-V
- MSSQL
- IPMI
Groundcover or Nagios: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.