Groundcover
An observability platform that collects logs, metrics, and traces from cloud environments while keeping data local and costs predictable.
- Also known as
- groundcover
Available worldwide
What is Groundcover?
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.
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.
From $30/host/mo (Pro). Free tier available. Transparent per-host pricing with no ingestion-based charges.
Free
FreeExploration tier with limited data retention
- data_retention
- 12 hours
- 12 hour data retention
- Slack Community support
- No credit card required
Pro
For teams of all sizes who like to move fast
- All available integrations and data sources
- SSO support
- Standard data retention
- Standard support
- BYOC deployment
Enterprise
For organizations in need of reliability at scale
- Everything in Pro plan
- RBAC support
- Unlimited data retention
- Premium support
- 24x7x365 on-call availability
On Premise
Contact salesFor high-compliance or regulated environments
- Everything in Enterprise plan
- Self-hosted data plane
- Self-hosted UI
- Isolated authentication
- Full on-premises deployment
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.
- Metrics
- ✓
- Log management
- ✓
- Distributed tracing
- ✓
- Application performance monitoring
- ✓
- Real-user monitoring
- ✓
- Alerting
- ✓
- On-call / incident management
- ✓
- Dashboards
- ✓
- OpenTelemetry-native
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (33)
Independently observed- AWS CloudWatch Logs←
- OpsGenie→
- incident.io→
- AWS
- Google Cloud Platform
- Microsoft Azure
- AWS CloudWatch
- Slack
- Linear
- OpenTelemetry
- MCP
- Terraform
- Kubernetes←•
- Prometheus←•
- 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←
- Claude Code←
- Claude Cowork←
- OpenClaw←
- OpenAI Codex←
- Kiro←
Groundcover FAQ
Common questions about Groundcover, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Groundcover?
A cloud-native observability solution that collects metrics, logs, and distributed traces using eBPF sensors with native OpenTelemetry support. Data processing and storage remain within customer-owned clouds or on-premises infrastructure, with integrations for third-party data sources and monitoring tools. It is indexed under Observability Tools.
Is Groundcover free?
Groundcover offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $30 per host per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Groundcover support?
Groundcover supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can Groundcover be self-hosted?
Yes. Groundcover can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
What does Groundcover integrate with?
We have confirmed 28 integrations for Groundcover, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Slack, Linear, OpenTelemetry, MCP and Terraform, plus 20 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
What security certifications does Groundcover have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Groundcover. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Groundcover not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://trust.groundcover.com
Groundcover alternatives
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Compare Groundcover
Side by side against other observability tools, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI 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.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 100 | 0.12 | 11.5 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.06 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 0.05 | 4.9 | ✓ |
| Price level | 50 | 0.04 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 42 | 0.05 | 2.0 | ✓ |
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.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Apm: Yes · Rum: Yes · Logs: Yes · Hosting: both · Metrics: Yes · On call: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 27 | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 50% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-03 · 75% |
| Hipaa | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 75% |
| Iso27001 | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 75% |
| Pci | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 75% |
| Soc2 | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 75% |
| Trust center | https://www.groundcover.com/learn/security | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
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