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Comparison

Groundcover vs Nagios

No leader: the top candidate Nagios has only 0.17 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Groundcover71
Nagios100
Score
Vioscale score
Groundcover71 / 100medium · 73%updating
Nagios100 / 100low · 17%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Groundcover✓
Nagios✓
Model
Groundcoverfreemium
Nagiosopen_source
Price level
Groundcovermid
Nagiosfree
Transparent
Groundcover✓
Nagios–
Integrations
Count
Groundcover9
Nagios4,000
Security
Disclosure policy
Groundcover✓
Nagios–
Gdpr
Groundcover✓
Nagios–
Hipaa
Groundcover✓
Nagios–
Iso27001
Groundcover✓
Nagios–
Pci
Groundcover✓
Nagios–
Soc2
Groundcover✓
Nagios–
Reliability
Status page
Groundcover✓
Nagios–
Market
Availability
GroundcoverAvailable worldwide
Nagios–

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for observability tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Signals
Metrics
Groundcover✓
Nagios✓
Log management
Groundcover✓
Nagios✓
Distributed tracing
Groundcover✓
Nagios-
Application performance monitoring
Groundcover✓
Nagios✓
Real-user monitoring
Groundcover✓
Nagios-
Response
Alerting
Groundcover✓
Nagios✓
On-call / incident management
Groundcover✓
Nagios✓
Insight
Dashboards
Groundcover✓
Nagios✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry-native
Groundcover✓
Nagios-
Deployment
Hosting
GroundcoverCloud + self-hosted
NagiosCloud + self-hosted

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Groundcover

Full-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.

Independently observed

Nagios

A free, community-supported monitoring system that helps organizations detect infrastructure issues and prevent downtime by monitoring servers, networks, applications, and services. It offers a modular plugin architecture for extensibility and includes optional web-based dashboards and visualization tools.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Groundcover

from $30/moSubscriptionFree tier

From $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
as of verify ↗

Nagios

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Groundcover✓
Nagios✓
macOS
Groundcover✗
Nagios✓
Windows
Groundcover✗
Nagios✓
Linux
Groundcover✗
Nagios✓
CLI
Groundcover✗
Nagios✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Groundcover✓
Nagios✗
Self-hosted
Groundcover✓
Nagios✓
On-premise
Groundcover✓
Nagios✓
Hybrid
Groundcover✓
Nagios✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)
  • Slack

Groundcover

9 total - 8 not shared
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Microsoft Azure
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • Linear
  • OpenTelemetry
  • MCP
  • Terraform
Independently observed

Nagios

26 total - 25 not shared
  • Grafana
  • InfluxDB
  • Prometheus
  • Apache
  • Nginx
  • IIS
  • Tomcat
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • MongoDB
  • LDAP
  • Active Directory
  • JBoss
  • WebLogic
  • Citrix
  • PagerDuty
  • ServiceNow
  • DB2
  • EC2
  • VMware
  • Hyper-V
  • MSSQL
  • +1 more
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.