At a glance
- Deployment
- byoc, self-hosted
- Licence
- proprietary
- Categories
- observability platform, apm, instrumentation, log management, llm observability
- Ownership
- private · s_faq, s_pricing, s_seriesb, s_seriesc, s_wand, s_wand_ctech, s_wand_sa
- Estimate
- Costed from published list prices
- Vendor-side sampling
- yes
What it charges for
Every line item recorded for groundcover. "Not stated" means the vendor's own page gives no number; it is never treated as zero.
| Line item | Unit | Commitment | List price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | host-month | none | $0 | s_pricing |
| Pro (yearly billing) | host-month | annual | $30 | s_billing, s_pricing, s_retention |
| Pro (monthly billing) | host-month | monthly | $35 | s_awsmp, s_pricing |
| Enterprise (yearly billing) | host-month | annual (yearly Enterprise goes through sales) | $35 | s_billing, s_calc, s_pricing, s_retention |
| Enterprise (monthly billing) | host-month | monthly (self-serve Stripe checkout) | $40 | s_awsmp, s_billing, s_pricing |
| On-Premise | host-month | contact sales | $50 | s_awsmp, s_pricing |
| BYOC backend infrastructure (customer cloud bill) | custom | paid to the cloud provider, not groundcover | Not stated | s_awsmp, s_byoc, s_faq |
| BYOC hosting estimate: compute (groundcover calculator, AWS us-east-1) | core-month | paid to the cloud provider, not groundcover (vendor's estimate) | $24.82 | s_calc |
| BYOC hosting estimate: object storage (groundcover calculator, AWS us-east-1) | gb-retained-month | paid to the cloud provider, not groundcover (vendor's estimate) | $0.023 | s_calc |
| BYOC hosting estimate: block storage (groundcover calculator, AWS us-east-1) | gb-retained-month | paid to the cloud provider, not groundcover (vendor's estimate) | $0.08 | s_calc |
| BYOC hosting estimate: networking, load balancers and other (groundcover calculator, AWS us-east-1) | custom | paid to the cloud provider, not groundcover (vendor's estimate) | $1 | s_calc |
| Agent Mode LLM usage | custom | paid to the LLM provider (Bedrock, Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry, or own Anthropic key) | Not stated | s_agentcost, s_onprem |
How the estimate is built
The standard deployment is priced by these components (methodology). A quantity is a formula over the workload variables; free allowances are subtracted first, and a tier prices only its own band.
| Component | Line item | Quantity | Free | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise hosts (yearly billing) | Enterprise (yearly billing) · per host-month · annual (yearly Enterprise goes through sales) | hosts | ||
| BYOC hosting, compute (groundcover calculator, low end) | BYOC hosting estimate: compute (groundcover calculator, AWS us-east-1) · per core-month · paid to the cloud provider, not groundcover (vendor's estimate) | (4 * ceil(max(2.016046 * (0.000748043 * (log_gb / 30.42 + span_gb / 30.42 + 4 * hosts) + 0.158773 * 50 + 0.435335) + 1.879382,
(1.428993 * (0.00616234 * log_gb / 30.42 + 0.00707862 * (span_gb / 30.42 + 4 * hosts) + 18.111464) + 3.392660) / 2) / 4)
+ 4 * ceil((1.713711 * (0.00000921345 * (metric_series + 10000 * hosts) + 0.169104) + 21.036620) / 8) + 4 * ceil(max(2.198 * (0.0004368684 * (log_gb / 30.42 + span_gb / 30.42 + 4 * hosts) + 0.480399) + 1.1257,
(3.5744 * (0.0002965477 * (log_gb / 30.42 + span_gb / 30.42 + 4 * hosts) + 1.018125) + 1.0977) / 2) / 4)
+ 4 * ceil(max(0.3071 * (metric_series + 10000 * hosts) / 1000000,
0.1458 * (metric_series + 10000 * hosts) / 1000000 + 0.0064 * hosts) / 4)
+ 4 * ceil((1.9474 * 0.3981 * (metric_series + 10000 * hosts) / 1000000 + 0.3392) / 4)) * 1.15 * 0.95 | ||
| BYOC hosting, object storage (groundcover calculator, low end) | BYOC hosting estimate: object storage (groundcover calculator, AWS us-east-1) · per gb-retained-month · paid to the cloud provider, not groundcover (vendor's estimate) | (log_gb / 30.42 * 0.0406 * 23 + (span_gb / 30.42 + 4 * hosts) * 0.0471 * 26) * 0.95 | ||
| BYOC hosting, block storage (groundcover calculator, low end) | BYOC hosting estimate: block storage (groundcover calculator, AWS us-east-1) · per gb-retained-month · paid to the cloud provider, not groundcover (vendor's estimate) | (log_gb / 30.42 * 7 * 0.0445 + (span_gb / 30.42 + 4 * hosts) * 4 * 0.0549) * 1.5 * 0.95 | ||
| BYOC hosting, networking, load balancers and other (groundcover calculator, low end) | BYOC hosting estimate: networking, load balancers and other (groundcover calculator, AWS us-east-1) · per custom · paid to the cloud provider, not groundcover (vendor's estimate) | (((max(0.000422 * (log_gb / 30.42 + span_gb / 30.42 + 4 * hosts) + 0.7227 * (metric_series + 10000 * hosts) / 1000000, 0.0211 * hosts, 0.75)
* (1.93 + 0.53 * min(1, max(0, ceil((0.000422 * (log_gb / 30.42 + span_gb / 30.42 + 4 * hosts) + 0.7227 * (metric_series + 10000 * hosts) / 1000000 - 0.0211 * hosts) * 1000000000))))
+ 5.292927 + 0.000071 * (log_gb / 30.42 + span_gb / 30.42 + 4 * hosts) + 0.002175 * hosts + 0.035338 * (metric_series + 10000 * hosts) / 1000000 + 48 * 0.045
+ 0.01 * (50 + 10 * min(1, max(0, ceil(log_gb / 30.42 + span_gb / 30.42 + 4 * hosts - 1000 + 0.000001)))
+ 5 * min(1, max(0, ceil(log_gb / 30.42 + span_gb / 30.42 + 4 * hosts - 10000 + 0.000001)))
+ 39 * min(1, max(0, ceil(log_gb / 30.42 + span_gb / 30.42 + 4 * hosts - 40000 + 0.000001)))))
* 365 / 12
+ min(0.00000639 * (metric_series + 10000 * hosts), 2.35 + 0.00000458 * (metric_series + 10000 * hosts)))
* 0.95) |
Example monthly bills
The same four illustrative workloads as the calculator, at list price. "At least" means a price the vendor does not state is left out of the total.
| Workload | Per month | Note | Calculator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $1,571 | Open Starter in the calculator→ | |
| Small | $1,820 | Open Small in the calculator→ | |
| Medium | $5,438 | Open Medium in the calculator→ | |
| Large | $42,722 | Open Large in the calculator→ |
Capabilities
What groundcover offers, by the definitions in the dataset. Add-on means a separately priced product.
| Capability | Level | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Ai assistant nl query Natural-language query or chat assistant | Yes | s_docidx |
| Ai root cause AI-assisted root-cause analysis or investigation agent | Yes | s_docidx, s_onprem |
| Alerting Alert rules with routing/notification | Yes | s_docidx |
| Byoc Vendor-managed in the customer's cloud account | Yes | s_arch, s_byoc |
| Continuous profiling Continuous profiling | Partial | s_docidx |
| Data reduction Drop, aggregate, dedupe, or convert logs-to-metrics before billing | Yes | s_docidx, s_sampling |
| Ebpf autoinstrumentation Zero-code instrumentation via eBPF | Yes | s_faq, s_intro |
| High cardinality Designed for high-cardinality attributes without pre-aggregation penalties | Yes | s_intro |
| Incident response Native on-call/incident workflow | No | s_docidx |
| Llm observability LLM/agent tracing, token and cost tracking, evaluations | Yes | s_aiobs |
| Logs Log management | Yes | s_intro |
| Mcp server Exposes an MCP server for agents | Yes | s_docidx |
| Metrics Metrics | Yes | s_arch, s_intro |
| Observability as code Terraform provider / dashboards-and-alerts as code | Yes | s_docidx, s_synth |
| Otel semconv native UI and features key off OTel semantic conventions rather than vendor fields | Partial | s_aiobs |
| Otlp ingest Accepts OTLP (gRPC or HTTP) natively, without a proprietary agent in the path | Yes | s_aiobs, s_arch |
| Pii redaction Mask/redact sensitive data in the pipeline | Yes | s_docidx, s_faq |
| Pipeline processing Parse, enrich, transform in flight before storage | Yes | s_docidx |
| Prometheus remote write Accepts Prometheus remote_write | Yes | s_rw |
| Promql Query with PromQL (or a compatible dialect) | Yes | s_arch |
| Proprietary agent required Full functionality needs the vendor's own agent (yes = lock-in signal) | Partial | s_docidx, s_intro, s_rw |
| Rbac Role-based access control | Partial | s_docidx, s_pricing |
| Rum Real-user monitoring (browser/mobile) | Yes | s_docidx, s_intro |
| Saas Vendor-hosted SaaS | No | s_arch, s_pricing |
| Sampling tail Tail-based trace sampling | Partial | s_otelcol, s_pricing, s_sampling, s_tracefilter, s_traces |
| Self hosted Customer can run it on its own infrastructure | Yes | s_arch, s_onprem, s_pricing |
| Service map Auto-discovered service/topology map | Yes | s_docidx |
| Sql query SQL as a query language | Yes | s_arch, s_docidx |
| Sso saml SSO via SAML/OIDC | Partial | s_docidx, s_pricing |
| Synthetics Synthetic monitoring | Yes | s_synth |
| Tiered storage Hot/warm/cold or archive tiers priced differently | Yes | s_byoc, s_storage |
| Traces Distributed tracing | Yes | s_intro, s_sampling |
| Usage cost controls Quotas, budgets, usage attribution to teams | Partial | s_agentcost, s_billing, s_storage |
Sources
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