Groundcover

The full-stack observability platform for engineers & agents

Also known as
groundcover

What is Groundcover?

Monitor everything you run in the cloud, without compromising on data, control, or cost. A cloud-native observability platform powered by eBPF that runs entirely in your cloud to deliver full visibility at a fraction of the cost.

Independently observed

Groundcover pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $30/moSubscriptionFree tier

From $30/host/month (Pro). Free tier available.

Free

Free
Free
data_retention
12 hours
  • 12 hour data retention
  • Slack Community support
  • No credit card required, free forever

Pro

$30/host/month

For teams of all sizes who like to move fast

  • All available integrations and data sources
  • SSO support
  • Standard data retention
  • Standard support

Enterprise

$35/host/month

For orgs in need of reliability at scale

data_retention
Unlimited
  • Everything in Pro plan
  • RBAC support
  • Unlimited data retention
  • Premium support

On Premise

Contact sales
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Designed for high-compliance, or regulated environments

  • Everything in Enterprise plan
  • Self-hosted data plane
  • Self-hosted UI
  • Isolated authentication

What Groundcover does

The capabilities that matter for observability tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

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
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Hybrid
  • Self-hosted

Groundcover alternatives

Other observability tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.

Independent · unbought · dated

The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Groundcover, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 76 / 100
medium · 50%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Security Posture10022.002200.0
Reliability5030.001500.0
Pricing Transparency10012.001200.0
Capabilities8712.001040.6
Price Level508.00400.0
Integrations016.000.0-

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"both","metrics":true,"tracing":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Price levelmidmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Starting gbp30mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
GdprYeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%
HipaaYeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%
Iso27001Yeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%
PciYeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%
Soc2Yeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%