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Should I use groundcover?

Monitor everything you run in the cloud, without compromising on data, control, or cost. Deployed in your cloud. Built for your agents. - groundcover.com

· 1 month ago

Buy if you run Kubernetes at scale and Datadog bills hurt. Skip if you just need simple uptime checks without an ops team.

Confidence

Medium. Based on ~20 public sources: G2, Gartner, Capterra reviews, funding news, vendor case studies, and third-party security commentary.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Feature depth
  • Support qualityNo direct support evidence found.
  • Security posture

Pricing

$0

Free

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
Free tierYes
TeamFrom ~$30/mo
EnterpriseCustom

Best for

  • Kubernetes-heavy engineering teams
  • Teams fleeing Datadog pricing
  • Regulated teams needing data in their own cloud
  • Teams wanting zero-instrumentation setup

Not for

  • Solo devs needing basic uptime pings
  • Non-technical teams with no DevOps staff
  • Teams unwilling to run vendor agents in their own cloud
  • Buyers wanting transparent enterprise list pricing

Gotchas - check before you buy

medium

Enterprise tier is talk-to-sales; budgeting requires a demo call

medium

BYOC means your team operates and pays cloud costs for the telemetry plane

medium

eBPF sensors request privileged host access; validate against your threat model

low

Review counts are small (26-32 per site); ratings may not generalize

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Strong ratings: 4.8 G2, 4.6 Gartner, 4.7 Capterra
  • Zero-instrumentation eBPF sensors capture data automatically
  • BYOC architecture keeps telemetry in your own cloud
  • Customer cut observability costs 67% versus incumbents
  • Integrates with OpenTelemetry standards

Cons

  • Tiny review base: ~26 reviews on G2 and Gartner
  • eBPF agents need privileged host access
  • BYOC shifts infrastructure operation onto your team
  • Young vendor, founded 2021, versus entrenched incumbents
  • Enterprise pricing not public

Sources & method

- 12 sources - BYOC keeps telemetry in your cloud; no known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

official x2review x5security x3news x2

Key stats

  • Value for money: 4/5

    Rating

  • $0

    Starting price

  • 12

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 4/5. Case studies cite 67% cost cuts replacing Datadog.
  • Ease of use: 4/5. Reviewers call it simple; zero-instrumentation eBPF sensors.
  • Feature depth: 4/5. eBPF, OpenTelemetry, RBAC, AI agent observability.
  • Support quality. No direct support evidence found.
  • Security posture: 4/5. BYOC, RBAC, public trust center.
  • 4.8/5 G2 rating 26 reviews
  • $30/mo Starting price Per Software Advice listing
  • Yes Free tier Free plan on pricing page
  • $100M Series C Funding Raised 2026

Pricing

Free

$0

  • Core observability
  • Community support

Team

From ~$30/mo

  • Usage-based billing
  • Full platform access

Enterprise

Not disclosed

  • RBAC and SSO
  • Talk-to-sales

Security

BYOC keeps telemetry in your cloud; no known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

What users say

Reviewers praise the simple zero-instrumentation setup and lower costs versus legacy tools like Datadog.

“Groundcover is so simple”
G2 review

Companies that use it

  • Lemonade
  • Nymbus11
  • aiOla
  • Nobl9
Full analysis

Based on ~20 public sources: G2, Gartner, Capterra reviews, funding news, vendor case studies, and third-party security commentary.

4.8/5 eBPF observability that runs in your cloud. Great for K8s scale; overkill for simple uptime needs.

Methodology

Based on ~20 public sources: G2, Gartner, Capterra reviews, funding news, vendor case studies, and third-party security commentary.

Read how a report is made.

Sources

  1. groundcover Reviews 2026 | G2g2.com
    review
  2. groundcover Reviews & Ratings 2026 | Gartner Peer Insightsgartner.com
    review
  3. groundcover Reviews 2026 | Capterracapterra.com
    review
  4. groundcover Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing | Software Advicesoftwareadvice.com
    review
  5. groundcover Pricing Plansgroundcover.com
    official
  6. Securing customer-owned telemetry planesgroundcover.com
    security
  7. Groundcover Trust Centertrust.groundcover.com
    security
  8. Groundcover Security: eBPF Privileges, Host Access reviewoneuptime.com
    security
  9. groundcover Raises $100M Series C Fundinggroundcover.com
    news
  10. Cloud observability startup Groundcover raises $100Msiliconangle.com
    news
  11. Nymbus Case Study: Cutting Observability Costs by 67%groundcover.com
    official
  12. Groundcover Pricing and Review 2026 | CubeAPMcubeapm.com
    review

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