groundcover vs Scout APM
groundcover
groundcover.com
Scout APM
scoutapm.comSide by side
| Figure | groundcover | Scout APM |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $30/mo | $10/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 4 | 10 |
| Spec score · Monitoring Observability | 8.3 (#10) | 7.5 (#18) |
| Spec score · Application Performance Monitoring | 8.3 (#13) | 7.4 (#29) |
| Spec score · Runtime Monitoring Software | 8.3 (#20) | 7.4 (#35) |
| Spec score · Application Performance & Observability - Enterprise Software | 8.2 (#10) | 7.4 (#14) |
| Spec score · Application Performance & Observability - Midmarket Software | 8.2 (#10) | 7.4 (#15) |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, Azure, MongoDB Atlas, Redis Cloud, Datadog, and GitHub. | Listed integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, Splunk On-Call, Opsgenie, Discord, Zapier, webhooks, Rollbar, Sentry, Honeybadger, Bugsnag, and GitHub. |
| 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. | Every plan includes human support; paid plans get priority response times and Enterprise includes dedicated premier support. |
Plans
Scout APM
- More Anomaly Detection$10 a month
- More Errors$19 a month
- Startup$19 a month
- Small$39 a month
- More Logs$40 a month
- Production Ready$64 a month
- Medium$99 a month
- Large$299 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
- FreePrice not published
In their own words
groundcover
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.
Scout APM
Scout APM is a cloud application performance monitoring and observability platform from Zimuth, Inc., available through web and API interfaces. It combines traces, metrics, logs, error tracking, and alerting for engineering teams investigating performance problems. Scout lists agents for Ruby, Python, PHP, Elixir, and Node.js. It detects slow database queries and N+1 patterns and provides query analysis. Its anomaly detection learns normal behavior for each endpoint and alerts when that behavior changes without requiring configured thresholds. An MCP server, CLI, and API let AI coding agents access production errors, traces, and performance data. Integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, Splunk On-Call, Opsgenie, Discord, Zapier, webhooks, Rollbar, Sentry, Honeybadger, Bugsnag, and GitHub. The Free plan includes 300K monthly transactions, 1 GB log data, 5,000 errors, one anomaly-monitored endpoint, and unlimited users and apps. Paid plans start at $19 a month, with a 14-day trial. Human support is included on every plan; paid plans add priority response, and Enterprise includes premier support.