Disaster Recovery

groundcover takes care of periodically backing up data in the system to ensure no loss can occur, both in monitoring data and also in dashboards and alerts created.

Grafana Dashboards & Alerts

groundcover ships with a builtin managed Grafana. As part of this, we make sure to back up every dashboard and alert created. This happens on a daily basis.

groundcover also supports provisioning dashboards and alerts with Terraform, which could serve as another way for users to manage and backup what they set up. That being said, as mentioned above we ensure everything that was stored in our Grafana is backed up periodically. Choose whatever works best for you!

Monitoring data

The following mechanisms are only available in our inCloud managed solution, as part of our Enterprise plan. Learn more here. They are fully available in AWS, GCP and Azure.

Volume Snapshots

groundcover operates to consistently maintain backups of your metrics, traces, logs and events. This works by creating daily snapshots of the volumes used by our databases. Snapshot lifecycle is managed entirely by groundcover, and will be used in case of disaster to recover lost data.

Object Storage

Object storage is not currently used for offloading metrics.

groundcover utilizes object storage for logs, traces and events, periodically offloading older data to object storage to make it safer and cheaper. This also allows to minimize the size of the volume snapshots, as most data is stored in object storage.