# Groundcover vs Last9

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Groundcover

| Attribute | Groundcover | Last9 |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 71.4 (73% (medium)) | 48.4 (73% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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. |
| 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 | 9 | 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":"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"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"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.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 | - |

## 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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:09:26.487Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*