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Grafana vs groundcover
groundcover provides cloud-native observability focused on cost-effective metrics, whereas Grafana adds logs, traces, AI assistant and broader integrations.
Which to pick
Pick Grafana if you want…
- Open-standard full-stack observability
- Open-source code (grafana/grafana on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license)
- Integrations with Prometheus (on Grafana's list, not groundcover's)
Pick groundcover if you want…
- Full-stack observability with BYOC architecture
- Cost-focused cloud observability
- Integrations with AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure (on groundcover's list, not Grafana's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Grafana:Grafana Cloud is an open-source-based observability platform that unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles and business data.
- groundcover:Groundcover provides full-stack cloud observability with logs, metrics, traces and Kubernetes events in a single platform.
- Best for
- Grafana:Open-standard full-stack observability
- groundcover:Full-stack observability with BYOC architecture
- Who it’s for
- Grafana:Developers, SREs and teams needing full-stack observability and cost-optimized telemetry.
- groundcover:Site reliability engineers, DevOps teams and cloud engineers needing unified observability.
- Pricing
- Grafana:Freemium
- groundcover:Freemium
- Plans
- Grafana:Free $0 · Pro $19 per month + usage · Enterprise $25,000 per year spend commit
- groundcover:Free $0 · Pro $30 per host, per month · Enterprise $35 per host, per month · On Premise $50 per host, per month
- Open source
- Grafana:Yes, 77,033 GitHub stars
- groundcover:—
- Works with
- Grafana:OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Slack
- groundcover:OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Slack, Linear, RUM
Grafana features
- AI Assistant. Ask natural-language questions, build dashboards and run investigations directly from Grafana, Slack or the terminal.
- Adaptive Telemetry. Automatically identifies low-value data and aggregates it, cutting telemetry spend by up to 80%.
- Full-stack observability. Unified view of metrics, logs, traces, profiles and synthetic monitoring on a single map.
- OpenTelemetry-native. Native support for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus with hundreds of plugins and integrations.
- Cost Management. Pay-as-you-go pricing with volume-based discounts and a free tier that includes all services.
- Compliance & Security. FedRAMP, NIST-100, PCI-DSS, GDPR and SOC-2 certifications for enterprise use.
groundcover features
- BYOC Architecture. Deploys inside your VPC so all telemetry stays private and secure.
- eBPF Sensor. Zero-instrumentation data collection across infrastructure, apps and AI workloads.
- Agent Mode. AI-driven assistant that runs queries, builds dashboards and automates actions.
- Plain-language Explorer. Search and investigate data using natural language without query syntax.
- AI Observability. Dedicated view for LLM calls and agent pipelines with cost and performance metrics.
- Integrated Alerts & Workflows. Monitors, Slack and Linear connectors route alerts and create tickets automatically.
- Cost-predictable Pricing. Per-host pricing based on average Kubernetes nodes, no ingestion fees.
- Multi-cloud Support. Runs on AWS, GCP and Azure marketplaces with optional on-prem deployment.
Grafana vs groundcover FAQ
Is Grafana or groundcover free?+
Grafana has a free plan and paid plans. groundcover has a free plan and paid plans.
Is Grafana or groundcover open source?+
Grafana is open source (grafana/grafana on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for groundcover.
Do Grafana and groundcover integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes and Slack. Grafana also lists Prometheus; groundcover also lists AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Linear and 1 more.
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groundcover
39 upvotes · Launched on DevHunt on Feb 6, 2024
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