Groundcover is a cloud-native observability platform built on a proprietary eBPF sensor that captures logs, metrics, traces, APM, and RUM with zero code changes. Founded in 2022, it uses a Bring-Your-Own-Cloud model so telemetry stays in the customer's own VPC, with pricing based on the number of monitored nodes. It offers a free tier without seat limits and is aimed at teams that want full-stack, eBPF-based monitoring while keeping their data in-house. The core platform is proprietary (only its CLI tooling is open source) though the backend is deployed in the customer's environment, and it holds SOC2 and ISO27001 compliance.
ebpfbyocself-hostablefull-stack
Overview
- Founded
- 2022
- Pricing tier
- Mid
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Monitoring & APM
- Free tier
- Yes: Free tier (no seat limits); BYOC per-node pricing.
- APM
- Yes
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Yes
- Logs
- Yes
- Real user monitoring
- Yes
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- Yes