# Migrations

Automated migration from legacy vendors. Bring over your monitors, dashboards, data sources, and all the data you need - with automatic mapping and zero downtime.

### Overview

groundcover is the first observability platform to ship a one-click migration tool from legacy vendors. The migration flow automatically discovers, translates, and installs your observability setup into groundcover.

**Goal:** Move your entire observability stack with zero manual work. We don't just migrate assets - we bring the data and handle all the mapping for you.

### What we migrate

#### Monitors

Includes alert conditions, thresholds, and evaluation windows.

#### Dashboards

Complete dashboard migration with preserved layouts:

* All widget types groundcover supports
* Query translations
* Time ranges and filters
* Visual settings and arrangements

#### Data Sources

We detect what you're using in Datadog and help you set it up in groundcover. One-click migration for integrations is coming soon.

#### Data & Mapping

We don't just copy configurations - we ensure the data flows:

* **Automatic metric mapping:** Datadog metric names translated to groundcover equivalents
* **Label translation:** Tags become labels with intelligent mapping
* **Query conversion:** Datadog query syntax converted to groundcover
* **Data validation:** We verify all referenced metrics and data sources exist

### Supported providers

#### Datadog

Full migration support available now.

[Migrate from Datadog →](/getting-started/migrations/migrate-from-datadog.md)

#### Other providers

Additional vendors coming soon.

### How it works

**Three steps. No scripts. No downtime.**

1. **Fetch & discover:** Provide API keys. groundcover pulls your monitors, dashboards, and data sources.
2. **Automatic setup:** We install data sources, map metrics, and prepare everything.
3. **Migrate assets:** Review and migrate monitors and dashboards with one click.

API keys are not stored.

### Access

**Settings → Migrations** (Admin role required)

### What's next

The migration flow is structured to support additional asset types:

* Data source configurations (available now)
* Log pipelines (coming soon)
* Advanced metric mappings (coming soon)


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