Introduction
groundcover is a full stack, cloud-native observability platform, developed to break all industry paradigms - from making instrumentation a thing of the past, to decoupling cost from data volumes.
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groundcover is a full stack, cloud-native observability platform, developed to break all industry paradigms - from making instrumentation a thing of the past, to decoupling cost from data volumes.
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The groundcover platform consolidates all your traces, metrics, logs, and Kubernetes events into a single pane of glass, allowing you to identify issues faster than ever before and conduct granular investigations for quick remediation and long-term prevention.
Our pricing is not impacted by the volume of data generated by the environments you monitor, so you can dare to start monitoring environments that had been blind spots until now - such as your Dev and Staging clusters. This, in turn, provides you visibility into all your environments, making it much more likely to identify issues in the early stages of development, rather than in your live product.
groundcover introduces game-changing concepts to observability:
eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is a groundbreaking technology that has significantly impacted the Linux kernel, offering a new way to safely and efficiently extend its capabilities.
By powering our sensor with eBPF, groundcover unlocks unprecedented granularity on your cloud environment, while also practically eliminating the need for human involvement in the installation and deployment process. Our unique sensor collects data directly from the Linux kernel with near-zero impact on CPU and memory.
Advantages of our eBPF sensor:
Zero instrumentation: groundcover's eBPF sensor gathers granular observability data without the need for integrating an SDK or changing your applications' code in any way. This enables all your logs, metrics, traces, and other observability data to flow automatically into the platform. In minutes, you gain full visibility into application and infrastructure health, performance, resource usage, and more.
Minimal resources footprint: groundcover’s sensor in installed on a dedicated node in each monitored cluster, operating separately from the applications it is monitoring. Without interference with the application's primary functions, the groundcover platform operates with near-zero impact on your resources, maintaining the applications' performance and avoiding unexpected overhead on the infrastructure.
A new level of insight granularity: With direct access to the Linux kernel, our eBPF sensor enables the collection of data straight from the source. This guarantees that the data is clean, unaltered, and precise. It also offers access to unique insight on your application and infrastructure, such as the ability to view the full traces of payloads, or analyzing network performance over time.
The one-of-a-kind architecture on which groundcover was built eliminates all requirements to stream your logs, metrics, traces, and other monitoring data outside of your environment and into a third-party's cloud. By leveraging integrations with best-of-breed technologies, including ClickHouse and Victoria Metrics, all your observability is stored data locally, with the ability of being fully managed by groundcover.
Advantages of our BYOC architecture:
By separating the data plane from the control plane, you get the advantages of a SaaS solution, without its security and privacy challenges.
With multiple deployment models available, you also get to choose the level of security and privacy your organization needs, up to the highest standards (FedRamp-level).
Automated deployment, maintenance & resource optimization with our inCloud Managed deployment option.
This concept is unique to groundcover, and takes a while to grasp. Read about our BYOC architecture more in detail in this dedicated section.
Learn about groundcover inCloud Managed (currently available only on a paid plan), which enables you to deploy groundcover's control plane inside your own environment and delegate the entire setup and management of the groundcover platform.
Enabled by our unique BYOC architecture, groundcover's vision is to revolutionize the industry by offering a pricing model that is unheard of anywhere else. Our fully transparent pricing model is based only on the number of nodes being monitored, and the costs of hosting the groundcover backend in your environment. Volume of logs, metrics, traces, and all other observability data don’t affect your cost. This results in savings of 60-90% compared to SaaS platforms.
In addition, all our subscription tiers never limit your access to features and capabilities.
Advantages of our nodes-based pricing model:
Cost is predictable and transparent, becoming an enabler of growth and expansion.
The ability to deploy groundcover in data-intensive environments enables the monitoring of Dev and Staging clusters, which promotes early identification of issues.
No cardinality or retention limits
Read our latest customer stories to learn how organization of varying sizes all reduce their observability costs dramatically by migrating to groundcover:
groundcover applies a stream processing approach to collect and control the continuous flow of data to gain immediate insights, detect anomalies, and respond to changing conditions. Unlike batch processing, where data is collected over a period and then analyzed, stream processing analyzes the data as it flows through the system.
Our platform uses a distributed stream processing engine that enables it to ingest huge amounts of data (such as logs, traces and Kubernetes events) in real time. It also processes all that data and instantly generates complex insights (such as metrics and context) based on it.
As a result, the volume of raw data stored dramatically decreases which, in turn, further reduces the overall cost of observability.
Designed for high scalability and rapid query performance, enabling quick and efficient log analysis from all your environments. Each log is enriched with actionable context and correlated with relevant metrics and traces, providing a comprehensive view for fast troubleshooting.
The groundcover platform provides cloud-native infrastructure monitoring, enabling automatic collection and real-time monitoring of infrastructure health and efficiency.
Gain end-to-end observability into your applications performance, identify and resolve issues instantly, all with zero code changes.
