--- title: "groundcover Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of groundcover Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/observability/groundcover-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [IT Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/it-management/) / groundcover Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/observability/groundcover-profile/reviews/) # groundcover Review From $30-$50/month Free version Free trial 4 plans Wondering if groundcover is right for your organization? Our IT Management Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview groundcover 4.7 [(32)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/observability/groundcover-profile/reviews/) FrontRunner 2026 Pricing Starting at $30.00 per month ### About groundcover groundcover is the full-stack observability platform for engineers and AI agents. Monitor everything you run in the cloud without compromising on data, control, or cost. Unlike traditional SaaS observability tools, groundcover deploys directly in your cloud through its Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) architecture, keeping your telemetry private and secure while dramatically reducing costs. Powered by eBPF and OpenTelemetry, groundcover delivers full-fidelity visibility across infrastructure, applications, logs, metrics, traces, and AI workloads without code changes or sampling. Built-in AI agents help engineering teams investigate incidents, identify root causes, build dashboards, and automate workflows using production context. With predictable node-based pricing, every signal is included at one price, so teams can scale observability without scaling costs. Wondering if groundcover is right for your organization? Our IT Management Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. ## groundcover User Interface ## Popular groundcover Alternatives Main Product groundcover 4.7 [(32)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/observability/groundcover-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.59Ease of use - 4.57Value for money - 4.74Customer support - 4.31Functionality Pricing Starting at $30.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Datadog](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/datadog-profile/) 4.6 [(372)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/datadog-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.29Ease of use - 4.12Value for money - 4.28Customer support - 4.53Functionality Pricing Starting at $15.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Site24x7](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/site24x7-profile/) 4.7 [(399)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/site24x7-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.58Ease of use - 4.51Value for money - 4.51Customer support - 4.63Functionality Pricing Starting at $10.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.softwareadvice.com/log-analysis/amazon-cloudwatch-profile/) 4.5 [(95)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/log-analysis/amazon-cloudwatch-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.32Ease of use - 4.28Value for money - 4.43Customer support - 4.53Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [Dynatrace](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/dynatrace-profile/) 4.6 [(86)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/dynatrace-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.33Ease of use - 4.27Value for money - 4.19Customer support - 4.48Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-monitoring/manageengine-applications-manager-profile/) 4.6 [(274)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-monitoring/manageengine-applications-manager-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.62Ease of use - 4.69Value for money - 4.73Customer support - 4.70Functionality Pricing Starting at $395.00 per year Get Price ## groundcover Pricing and Plans groundcover has four plans. Free is free. Pro is $30.00/mo billed monthly. Enterprise is $40.00/mo billed monthly. On Premise is $50.00/mo billed monthly. Free versionFree trial Free $0.00 Free forever Free plan includes: - 12 hour data retention - Slack Community support Pro $30.00 per month Pro plan includes: - All available integrations and data sources - SSO support - Standard data retention - Standard support Enterprise $40.00 per month Enterprise plan includes: - RBAC support - Unlimited data retention On Premise $50.00 per month On Premise plan includes: - Self-hosted data plane - Self-hosted UI - Isolated authentication Confused about pricing? We've got you covered. Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates. ### How does groundcover pricing compare to alternatives? groundcover's starting price is $30.00/month. Explore how its pricing and plan options compare with top alternatives below. | Product | Starting price | Free trial | Free version | Value for Money | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | groundcover4.7[(32)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/observability/groundcover-profile/reviews/) | $30.00 /mo | Available | Available | 4.6 | | [Datadog](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/datadog-profile/)4.6[(372)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/datadog-profile/reviews/) | $15.00 /mo | Available | Available | 4.1 | | [Site24x7](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/site24x7-profile/)4.7[(399)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/site24x7-profile/reviews/) | $10.00 /mo | Available | Not available | 4.5 | | [Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.softwareadvice.com/log-analysis/amazon-cloudwatch-profile/)4.5[(95)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/log-analysis/amazon-cloudwatch-profile/reviews/) | Free | Not available | Available | 4.3 | | [Dynatrace](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/dynatrace-profile/)4.6[(86)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/dynatrace-profile/reviews/) | $0.00 | Available | Not available | 4.3 | groundcover4.7[(32)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/observability/groundcover-profile/reviews/) * * * Starting price $30.00 /mo Free trial Available Free version Available Value For Money 4.6 - [Datadog](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/datadog-profile/)4.6[(372)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/datadog-profile/reviews/) * * * Starting price $15.00 /mo Free trial Available Free version Available Value For Money 4.1 - [Site24x7](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/site24x7-profile/)4.7[(399)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/site24x7-profile/reviews/) * * * Starting price $10.00 /mo Free trial Available Free version Not available Value For Money 4.5 - [Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.softwareadvice.com/log-analysis/amazon-cloudwatch-profile/)4.5[(95)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/log-analysis/amazon-cloudwatch-profile/reviews/) * * * Starting price Free Free trial Not available Free version Available Value For Money 4.3 - [Dynatrace](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/dynatrace-profile/)4.6[(86)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring/dynatrace-profile/reviews/) * * * Starting price $0.00 Free trial Available Free version Not available Value For Money 4.3 ## groundcover Features - Popular features found in IT Management Access Controls/Permissions Capacity Management Compliance Management Incident Management Issue Auditing License Management Maintenance Scheduling Remote Access/Control Server Monitoring Ticket Management - More features of groundcover Activity Dashboard Activity Monitoring Activity Tracking Alerts/Escalation Alerts/Notifications Analytics Anomaly Detection API Application-Level Analysis Application Management Approval Workflow Audit Management Audit Trail Authentication Automated Discovery Automatic Backup Bandwidth Monitoring Baseline Manager Bottleneck Identification Capacity Planning Change Management Collaboration Tools Commenting/Notes Configurable Workflow Configuration Management Container Monitoring Continuous Deployment Continuous Integration Continuous Monitoring Correlation Analysis CPU Monitoring Customizable Dashboard Customizable Reports Dashboard Dashboard Creation Data Aggregation Data Analysis Tools Database Monitoring Data Classification Data Extraction Data Import/Export Data Storage Management Data Visualization Dependency Tracking Diagnostic Tools Downtime Tracking Drag & Drop Email Alerts Event Logs Event Tracking Historical Trend Analysis Incident Reporting Indexing Inventory Management Issue Management Issue Tracking IT Asset Management IT Asset Tracking IT Monitoring IT Reporting Key Performance Indicators KPI Monitoring Load Balancing Log Analysis Log Collection Log Management Monitoring Multitenancy Network Analysis Network Mapping Network Monitoring Network Resource Management Patch Management Pattern Detection and Recognition Performance Management Performance Metrics Performance Monitoring Policy Management Portfolio Management Predictive Analytics Prioritization Projections Project Management Query Analysis Real-time Alerts Real-Time Analytics Real-Time Data Real-Time Monitoring Real-Time Notifications Real-Time Reporting Release Management Remote Monitoring & Management Reporting/Analytics Reporting & Statistics Resource Management Resource Optimization Role-Based Permissions Root Cause Analysis Rules-Based Workflow Search/Filter Secure Data Storage Self Service Portal Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Single Sign On SSL Security Status Tracking Summary Reports Task Management Testing Management Third-Party Integrations Threshold Alerts Timeline Management Transaction Monitoring Trend Analysis Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Reports Uptime Reporting User Management Version Control Visual Analytics Vulnerability Scanning Web Traffic Reporting Workflow Management ## groundcover Integrations Datadog Integration rated undefined from -1 review Grafana Integration rated undefined from -1 review Amazon Cloud Search Integration rated undefined from -1 review Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Integration rated undefined from -1 review Instaclustr Apache Kafka Integration rated undefined from -1 review Slack Integration rated undefined from -1 review See all 15 integrations ## groundcover User Reviews ## groundcover customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.7/5 - Total reviews: 32 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 25 reviews (78%) - 4 stars: 5 reviews (16%) - 3 stars: 2 reviews (6%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.6/5 - Value for money: 4.6/5 - Customer support: 4.7/5 - Functionality: 4.3/5 --- ### New Monitoring king in the market - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ilya P. - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Great monitoring and alerting tool, a one-stop shop for all your monitoring, no need to have multiple products. enough to have just this one #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Awesome product, allows us to monitor metrics, logs, traces, events all in the same dashboard. Alert creation is very is to create. Customer support is one of the best I have enqountered with almost imidiate response #### Cons It might have some issues with handling huge amounts of data, but they have worked with us closely and we managed to eliminate this issues almost entirely #### Vendor response Thank you so much for your kind words! We are happy your like our product! Replied October 2026 --- ### Best APM solution that just works - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: January 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It was very refreshing experience to setup such tool so quickly and get value out of it even quicker. Free plan is perfect for evaluation, even month-long, as the only limitation is a number of seats. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is super easy to install (installer is clever enough to ask about kubernetes node taints required to be able to provision all nodes), just few steps in small cli tool. All the data is aggregated and displayed in meaningful way right at the front page, no need to spend hours learning documentation on how setup and use the tool. Very intuitive tool, focused on providing insight into health / state of k8s cluster and services and it does it really well. Historical data (events, logs, traces, metrics) allows you to quickly figure out issues that happened last night leaving no room for guess-work. #### Cons At this point it is missing eBPF support for MSSQL, navigating through distributed traces could be improved (group them by transaction type and aggregate based on that). #### Vendor response Thank you for submitting your detailed review of groundcover Marek! It's wonderful to know that you were impressed with the easy installation and granular visibility out-of-the-box! We're constantly working on adding new features and your feedback is super valuable to us, I can tell you we're already working on developing these additional capabilities. Gilles Perez, Product Marketing Lead, groundcover Replied January 2024 --- ### GC All-in-1 - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: October 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. Overall experience is good. Been using groundcover for last 40 days. Couple of issues like screen resolution and when the time range is large, it says unable to fetch data please reduce time range. I worked on OTEL integration and alert migration. Faced few issue while writing alert queries but GC team helped with it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Getting all in one place. UI is very good and easy to use. Most liked feature is where I get to select "ONLY" while filtering out. Another thing I get to monitor all resources and infrastructure at one place which helps in monitoring our services. #### Cons Screen resolution is the issue, sometimes I can not fully see the traces or logs page which come in right bottom. In monitor I am able to see them properly but when I open in laptop, I dont get to see them properly. --- ### Product has long onboarding time - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · weekly - Reviewed: January 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros A lot of important data is exposed, this helps a lot to debug our production #### Cons As a new user i find it hard to get into all of the abilities i have in groundcover #### Vendor response Hi Yair, thank you for submitting your review of groundcover! I am sorry to learn that your experience was not optimal. The vast majority of our users report that quick onboarding and ease of use are part of the highlights of their experience with groundcover, and I would love for it to be the same for you. As I can't see your full details, please contact our support via our Slack community (https://www.groundcover.com/join-slack) or via email (hello at groundcover dot com) so our experts can help you through the process? I am certain we can turn your experience around in no time and would love to have the opportunity to do so. All the best, Gilles Perez, Product Marketing Lead. Replied January 2024 --- ### Great Product with Awesome Value and Room to Grow - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: October 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. Overall, groundcover is a good product with potential. While it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of more developed options, its affordability makes it a solid choice. Looking forward to future updates that enhance its features. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The pricing is a major advantage, offering good value for the features available. It's an efficient solution for those on a budget. #### Cons Compared to other full-fledged products, there are areas that could use improvement. Some functionalities feel limited. --- ### Observability made easy - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: January 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The ease of deployment, the platform, availability of majority of the features. And constant feature releases. #### Cons Nothing as such. The team is constantly improving and bringing in new features. #### Vendor response Thank you for taking the time to review groundcover Vinoth! It's fantastic to know that your experience using the platform has been so positive and we look forward to continue bringing you and your organization value in the future! Gilles Perez, Product Marketing Lead, groundcover Replied January 2024 --- ### All good but 1 flaw - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Retail - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: November 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Logging and availability of all important debugging tools #### Cons Log size is limited to a certain length, an option could be given to view large logs on a separate page if required. --- ### Groundcover review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: October 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Facebook's Groundcover initiative stands out as a significant innovation in building scalable, efficient, and open-source cloud-native observability tools. What I appreciate most about it is how it seeks to empower developers with deep insights into their infrastructure and applications without compromising on performance or scalability. By focusing on providing real-time, granular visibility into cloud environments, Groundcover helps teams identify issues faster and optimize systems more effectively. Additionally, its commitment to open-source allows a broader community to contribute, learn, and benefit from cutting-edge observability practices. This fosters collaboration and accelerates innovation in cloud-native solutions. #### Cons What I like least about Facebook's Groundcover is the potential complexity that comes with implementing and managing it in large-scale environments. While it's designed to offer deep observability, the extensive amount of data it gathers can sometimes overwhelm teams if they don't have the proper strategies in place to handle and analyze that information efficiently. Additionally, for smaller teams or organizations without dedicated DevOps resources, the learning curve and maintenance efforts required to fully leverage Groundcover’s features could be daunting, making it harder for them to extract meaningful value quickly. --- ### Great and robust tool to migrate to! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Defense & Space - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · weekly - Reviewed: November 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Groundcover has been a valuable addition to our monitoring toolkit. The ease of setup, combined with insightful telemetry capabilities, has significantly improved our ability to track and troubleshoot in testing and production environments. It provides the flexibility and data visualization we need, making it easier to maintain a stable, high-performing system. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros One of the standout features of Groundcover is how straightforward it is to set up telemetry metrics for Playwright with Grafana integration. The platform makes it remarkably easy to configure and visualize performance metrics, allowing our team to monitor test environments and application behaviors in real time without hassle. #### Cons While generally effective, there are minor aspects that could use a bit of polishing for a more seamless experience. Sometimes some dashboards take some time to populate and page sometimes needs to be refreshed, which is just annoying but fine overall. --- ### Groundcover is one of the kind - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Arman T. - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: January 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros We liked the idea of hosting data in our cloud account and at the same time having the ability to use the service as SaaS. We also liked the ability to have fully managed observability service as such a low cost. #### Cons groundcover services are still maturing. We had to request couple of features that do not exist yet. #### Vendor response Thank you for submitting your review of groundcover Arman! It's great to see that you were impressed by our inCloud architecture and the control and flexibility it enables. Our team is constantly looking for ways to enhance our platform and our users' feedback and feature requests are super valuable for that process, please always feel free to share your ideas with us! 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