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.
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/month (Pro). Free tier available.
Free
Free- data_retention
- 12 hours
- 12 hour data retention
- Slack Community support
- No credit card required, free forever
Pro
For teams of all sizes who like to move fast
- All available integrations and data sources
- SSO support
- Standard data retention
- Standard support
Enterprise
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 salesDesigned 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.
- 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- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
Groundcover alternatives
Other observability tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
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.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 100 | 22.00 | 2200.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 87 | 12.00 | 1040.6 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 8.00 | 400.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 16.00 | 0.0 | - |
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.