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groundcover
groundcover · Tel Aviv and California
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, processing data at the edge. The product states that it captures telemetry in real time without sampling. Bring Your Own Cloud places the backend in the customer’s cloud while groundcover manages it and hosts the interface. Fully On-Prem hosts both backend and interface 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 includes 12-hour data retention and Slack Community support, with no credit card required. Pro starts at $30 per host per month, and billing is based on average monthly monitored Kubernetes nodes or Linux hosts rather than telemetry volume. The platform is available on Linux, as self-hosted software, and on the web.
For and against
For
- Collects metrics, logs, and traces without manual instrumentation
- Offers Bring Your Own Cloud and Fully On-Prem deployments
- Agent Mode can create dashboards and monitors
- Free plan requires no credit card
Against
- Free plan retains data for 12 hours
- Free plan support is through Slack Community
- Pro is $30 per host per month
The verdict
groundcover combines telemetry collection with multiple deployment options and integrations. Its free plan has short data retention and community support, while paid pricing is based on monitored hosts or nodes.
Who it suits
groundcover suits teams monitoring production environments that want telemetry collection through an eBPF sensor and a choice of cloud-managed or on-premises deployment. Teams considering the free plan should account for its 12-hour retention limit.
Plans and prices
Free
12 hour data retention · Slack Community · No credit card required · BYOC
Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
Pro
All available integrations and data sources · SSO support · Standard data retention · Standard support
Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
Enterprise
Everything in Pro · RBAC support · Unlimited data retention · Premium support
Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
On Premise
Everything in Enterprise · Self-hosted data plane · Self-hosted UI · Isolated authentication
Read 28 Sep 2026 · groundcover.com
On the record
- AI agent
- Agent Mode can investigate telemetry and create dashboards, monitors, gcQL queries, and OTTL pipelines.groundcover.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- 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.groundcover.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Billing
- Pricing is based on average monthly monitored Kubernetes nodes or Linux hosts, rather than telemetry ingestion volume.groundcover.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Data processing
- The sensor processes and captures data at the edge, and the product states that it ingests data in real time without sampling.groundcover.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- Bring Your Own Cloud deploys the backend in the customer’s cloud while groundcover manages it, and the UI is hosted by groundcover.groundcover.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Free-plan limit
- The Free plan includes 12 hour data retention and Slack Community support.groundcover.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Listed integrations include Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, Azure, MongoDB Atlas, Redis Cloud, Datadog, and GitHub.groundcover.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- On-premises
- The Fully On-Prem deployment hosts both the backend and UI on customer premises, including cloud or physical servers.groundcover.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Product
- groundcover is a cloud-native observability platform powered by eBPF for monitoring production environments.groundcover.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- 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.trust.groundcover.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Paid from
- 30groundcover.com · read 23 Sep 2026
- 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.groundcover.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Telemetry
- Its eBPF sensor collects metrics, logs, and traces with no code changes or manual instrumentation.groundcover.com · read 28 Sep 2026
