Groundcover
Groundcover is an observability platform designed for cloud-native and on-premise environments, offering comprehensive monitoring capabilities for infrastructure, appl…
Our verdict
Who it's for
Monitor cloud and on-prem environments with full data, lower costs, and complete control.
Who should look elsewhere
Requires managing infrastructure within your own VPC for the observability solution.
Pros
- +Significantly lower total cost of ownership due to BYOC architecture and host-based pricing.
- +Full data fidelity with no sampling or rate limiting.
- +Enhanced data privacy, security, and residency by keeping data within user's VPC.
- +Zero instrumentation and easy deployment with eBPF.
- +Comprehensive visibility across infrastructure, applications, and LLMs.
Cons
- −Requires managing infrastructure within your own VPC for the observability solution.
- −May have a learning curve for users unfamiliar with BYOC or eBPF concepts.
Key features
- ✓Infrastructure Monitoring
- ✓Log Management
- ✓Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
- ✓Real User Monitoring
- ✓LLM Observability
- ✓eBPF-powered sensor for zero instrumentation
- ✓Kubernetes Monitoring
- ✓Custom visualizations & alerts (Grafana/PromQL)
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | month | 12 hour data retention; Slack Community support; No credit card required, free forever |
| Pro | $30 | month | All available integrations and data sources; SSO support; Standard data retention |
| Enterprise | $35 | month | Everything in Pro plan, plus:; RBAC support; Unlimited data retention |
| On Premise | $50 | month | Everything in Enterprise plan, plus:; Self-hosted data plane; Self-hosted UI |