groundcover
groundcover.com
What it is
groundcover is a cloud-native observability platform for monitoring production environments. Its eBPF sensor collects metrics, logs, and traces without code changes or manual instrumentation, processes data at the edge, and the product states that ingestion happens in real time without sampling. Bring Your Own Cloud deployment puts the backend in the customer’s cloud while groundcover manages it and hosts the UI. Fully On-Prem deployment places both backend and UI on customer premises, including cloud or physical servers. Integrations include Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, Azure, MongoDB Atlas, Redis Cloud, Datadog, and GitHub. Agent Mode can investigate telemetry and create dashboards, monitors, gcQL queries, and OTTL pipelines. The Free plan is free forever and includes 12-hour data retention and Slack Community support; paid plans start at $30 per host per month. Billing is based on average monthly monitored Kubernetes nodes or Linux hosts, not telemetry volume. The platform is available on Linux, self-hosted, and web.
Spec sheet
- Product
- groundcover is a cloud-native observability platform powered by eBPF for monitoring production environments.Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
- Deployment
- Bring Your Own Cloud deploys the backend in the customer’s cloud while groundcover manages it, and the UI is hosted by groundcover.Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
- Free plan
- YesRead 23 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
- Paid from
- 30Read 23 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
- Integrations
- Listed integrations include Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, Azure, MongoDB Atlas, Redis Cloud, Datadog, and GitHub.Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
- Support
- Standard support offers business-hours availability with stated response targets from under 8 hours for critical issues to under 72 hours for low-priority issues.Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
- Headquarters
- Tel Aviv, IsraelRead 23 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
- AI agent
- Agent Mode can investigate telemetry and create dashboards, monitors, gcQL queries, and OTTL pipelines.Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
- AI data handling
- Agent Mode runs on Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI ChatGPT, or Anthropic Claude inside the customer’s cloud, and the page says prompts, logs, and traces never leave that infrastructure.Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
- Billing
- Pricing is based on average monthly monitored Kubernetes nodes or Linux hosts, rather than telemetry ingestion volume.Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
- Data processing
- The sensor processes and captures data at the edge, and the product states that it ingests data in real time without sampling.Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
- Free-plan limit
- The Free plan includes 12 hour data retention and Slack Community support.Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
- On-premises
- The Fully On-Prem deployment hosts both the backend and UI on customer premises, including cloud or physical servers.Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
- Security and compliance
- The Trust Center lists CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2, and PCI DSS compliance topics and offers access to security documents.Read 28 Sep 2026 · trust.groundcover.com
- Telemetry
- Its eBPF sensor collects metrics, logs, and traces with no code changes or manual instrumentation.Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
Plans and prices
Free Free Free forever 12 hour data retention · Slack Community · No credit card required · BYOC Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
Pro $30 a month Per host, per month All available integrations and data sources · SSO support · Standard data retention · Standard support · BYOC Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
Enterprise $35 a month Per host, per month Everything in Pro · RBAC support · Unlimited data retention · Premium support · BYOC Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
On Premise $50 a month Per host, per month Everything in Enterprise · Self-hosted data plane · Self-hosted UI · Isolated authentication · Full On-Prem Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
Strong points and limits
Strong points
- Collects metrics, logs, and traces without code changes.
- Offers Bring Your Own Cloud and Fully On-Prem deployments.
- Free plan includes Slack Community support.
- Pricing is based on hosts, not telemetry volume.
- Agent Mode can create dashboards and monitors.
Limits
- Free-plan data retention is 12 hours.
- Free-plan support is through Slack Community.
- Paid plans are priced per host per month.
Who it suits
It suits teams monitoring production environments that want to collect telemetry without manual instrumentation. Teams can choose a managed backend in their own cloud or a fully on-premises deployment.
Verdict
groundcover lays out its telemetry collection, deployment choices, and host-based pricing model. The Free plan’s short retention window and community support are important constraints to weigh against the paid plans.
Where Specifiction places it
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