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Comparison

Groundcover vs Zabbix

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
Zabbix54
Score
vioscaleAI score
Groundcover73 / 100medium · 73%
Zabbix54 / 100low · 21%
Pricing
Free tier
Groundcover✓
Zabbix✓
Model
Groundcoverfreemium
Zabbixfreemium
Price level
Groundcovermid
Zabbixlow
Starting price
Groundcover$30
Zabbix–
Transparent
Groundcover✓
Zabbix✗
Integrations
Count
Groundcover27
Zabbix45
Security
Disclosure policy
Groundcover✓
Zabbix–
Gdpr
Groundcover✓
Zabbix✓
Hipaa
Groundcover✓
Zabbix–
Iso27001
Groundcover✓
Zabbix–
Pci
Groundcover✓
Zabbix–
Soc2
Groundcover✓
Zabbix–
Trust center
Reliability
Status page
Groundcover✓
Zabbix–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Groundcover6 items
Zabbix7 items

Capabilities

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

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

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

Zabbix

A distributed monitoring solution that provides visibility across cloud infrastructure, networks, applications, services, and IoT devices, available for deployment either on-premises or as a managed cloud service.

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 ↗

Zabbix

from $325/moOpen sourceFree tier5-day trial

Free open-source software with optional subscriptions from $325/month (Silver). All subscriptions include support SLAs and 5 years of security fixes.

  • Silver$325/month, billed annually
    • Online support
    • 1 support contact
    • 8x5 support availability
    • 1 day initial response time
    • Unlimited monitored devices and metrics
  • GoldFrom $825/month, billed annually
    • Phone and online support
    • 2 support contacts
    • 8x5 support availability
    • 4 hour initial response time
    • Distributed monitoring
    • +4 more
  • PlatinumContact sales
    • Phone and online support
    • 3 support contacts
    • 24x7 support availability
    • 2 hour initial response time
    • Distributed monitoring
    • +8 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Phone and online support
    • 7 support contacts
    • 24x7 support availability
    • 1.5 hour initial response time
    • 1 hour emergency response time
    • +12 more
  • GlobalContact sales
    • Phone and online support
    • 20 support contacts
    • 24x7 support availability
    • 1 hour initial response time
    • 1 hour emergency response time
    • +10 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

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

Integrations

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

In common (5)
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • Slack
  • Kubernetes
  • Prometheus
  • RabbitMQ

Groundcover

Leader
33 total - 28 not shared
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Linear
  • OpenTelemetry
  • MCP
  • Terraform
  • Real User Monitoring
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • AWS S3
  • Google Cloud Monitoring
  • Google Cloud Pub/Sub
  • MongoDB Atlas
  • Redis Cloud
  • Datadog
  • Istio
  • FluentBit
  • FluentD
  • Cloudflare
  • GitHub
  • Claude Code
  • Claude Cowork
  • OpenClaw
  • OpenAI Codex
  • +4 more
Independently observed

Zabbix

43 total - 38 not shared
  • SNMP
  • Java
  • IPMI
  • SSH
  • Telnet
  • NETCONF
  • SFTP
  • ODBC
  • ICMP
  • TCP
  • Modbus
  • MQTT
  • HTTP
  • HTTPS
  • VMware
  • vCenter
  • Veeam Backup and Replication
  • Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
  • GCP
  • MSSQL
  • MS Teams
  • Pushover
  • ilert
  • ManageEngine ServiceDesk
  • +14 more
Independently observed
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Groundcover or Zabbix: which one depends on you

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