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Comparison

Groundcover vs Thanos

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.

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★Groundcover73
Thanos59
Score
vioscaleAI score
Groundcover73 / 100medium · 73%
Thanos59 / 100medium · 52%
Pricing
Free tier
Groundcover✓
Thanos✓
Model
Groundcoverfreemium
Thanosopen_source
Price level
Groundcovermid
Thanosfree
Starting price
Groundcover$30
Thanos–
Transparent
Groundcover✓
Thanos–
Integrations
Count
Groundcover27
Thanos8
Security
Disclosure policy
Groundcover✓
Thanos–
Gdpr
Groundcover✓
Thanos–
Hipaa
Groundcover✓
Thanos–
Iso27001
Groundcover✓
Thanos–
Pci
Groundcover✓
Thanos–
Scorecard
Groundcover–
Thanos8.3
Soc2
Groundcover✓
Thanos–
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Groundcover✓
Thanos–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Groundcover–
Thanos1,266
Github stars
Groundcover–
Thanos14,234
Activity
Commits last 30d
Groundcover–
Thanos52
Release
Cadence days
Groundcover–
Thanos6
History
Groundcover–
Thanos20 items
License
Spdx
Groundcover–
ThanosApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Groundcover–
ThanosGo
Market
Availability
GroundcoverAvailable worldwide
Thanos–
Content
Faq
Groundcover6 items
Thanos6 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Groundcover

Leader

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.

Independently observed

Thanos

CNCF Incubating project extending Prometheus with global query view across multiple servers, unlimited retention via object storage, and downsampling capabilities.

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

Leader
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 ↗

Thanos

Open source
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Groundcover✓
Thanos✓
CLI
Groundcover✓
Thanos✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Groundcover✓
Thanos✗
Self-hosted
Groundcover✓
Thanos✓
On-premise
Groundcover✓
Thanos✗

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • Prometheus

Groundcover

Leader
33 total - 32 not shared
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Microsoft Azure
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • Slack
  • 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
  • +8 more
Independently observed

Thanos

9 total - 8 not shared
  • Grafana
  • OpenTSDB
  • S3
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Swift
  • Tencent COS
  • Alertmanager
Independently observed
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Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.