groundcover Reviews & Product Details

All data is stored locally, with very simple plans so it is very easy to calculate costs. You have full control over all retention without incurring extra costs as it is running on your infrastructure. Also, the Groundcover team is very quick to help and even provides suggestions/best practices and status updates on how to fetch data from the internal Clickhouse database that is deployed as part of the service. This also includes information related to upcoming internal changes that might affect your custom-developed services that use groundcover data, that is going above and beyond!

It is very easy to install using in our case, their helm charts. And their UI is very simple and intuitive when it comes to reading logs, traces and metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Their built-in eBPF plugins are still limited, but that is a very small downside as they support oTEL and Prometheus out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I just started using Groundcover at my new job and I questioned myself for not knowing about it before now. I particularly love the traces feature where I can check activities including SQL query execution details. I've been tracing down issues with great ease across various environments and I'd definitely choose Groundcover over and over again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I particularly don't have any major issues yet. I just sometimes find scrolling on the left side of the dashboard where I can filter by workloads, resources, etc challenging some times. But I'd say this hasn't even been a thing to dislike for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I liked the most about groundcover is how easily it integrates with Kubeflow for monitoring data pipelines.

The real-time log tracking and observability features are really amazing. Also, when dealing with complex workflows, it works wuite effectively.

You get clear insights of what's happening at each pipeline stage in kubeflow which also helps trscking down issues quickly. The interface is intuitive and very useful. I'm an intern and it wasn't difficult for me to adapt to groundcover.

I often use groundcover multiple times throughout the week. The logs are just better observed there compared to other tools or directly at the kubeflow log viewer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Though I love groundcover, I think it can be resource intensive at times, especially when running synchronous jobs. I was once running multiple kubeflow runs and encountered resources allocation issue. This was not updated in the logs until the maximum retries ended for resource allocation.

Apart from this, the dashboard looks a little messy when there are so many logs being monitored across the nodes and pods Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a startup with a limited budget, finding the right observability platform was a major challenge. We needed a solution that provided comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting capabilities without breaking the bank. After evaluating several open source and paid tools, we discovered Groundcover, and it has been a game changer for us.

It's cost-effective and offers exceptional value for the price, especially compared to other paid tools that often charge exorbitant fees.It provides a complete solution for monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting all in one platform, wich eliminates the need for multiple tools, simplifies our observability stack.

It's easy to set up and use and it has excelnt support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We encountered a few minor glitches and gaps in the documentation, but Groundcover support team has been helpful in addressing any questions or issues we've had. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Groundcover's user-friendly interface makes setup simple, even for novice users, and it excels at ease of use and execution. With little resource consumption, the eBPF-based technology guarantees effective, real-time insights. Because of its dependable anomaly detection and actionable alerts, its integration is smooth and fits in nicely with our current stack. Its usage frequency is also consistently high. Customer service is competent and quick to respond, offering reliable support when required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Groundcover is less suitable for non-cloud-native systems since it is primarily tailored for Kubernetes and offers little support for conventional on-premise or hybrid architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Groundcover offer great observability and monitoring solution with easy to use and interpret interface that saves times.

The interface is so straightforward and allows to have a look at metrics easily and offer immediate insights into EKS cluster.

It is easy to setup compared to other similar platforms and provide easy way for monitoring, logging, tracing, and setting up alerts.

It easily captures traces with opentelemetry and helps debug issues quickly with the traces. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation can be improved and can be created bit more in depth as there are certain missing or not clear parts although that can be covered with help of groundcover support team which is very proactive in any help needed.

Since, the product is continuously upgrading so not much complaint as overall its up to the mark and providing good solution to observability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GroundCover is a powerful observability tool designed to simplify monitoring of Kubernetes environments. It delivers real-time insights and deep visibility into your clusters without requiring extensive installation or complex configurations. What sets GroundCover apart is its lightweight approach, allowing you to quickly deploy it and start gathering critical metrics and traces, ensuring you can monitor your infrastructure efficiently and respond to issues faster. This makes it an ideal solution for teams looking to streamline their Kubernetes monitoring process without sacrificing visibility or performance insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it has impact on cluster resources, that is hard to calculate or manually set before deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Groundcover is so simple to implement and use!

we built our obsevability around it and are very happy with it!

logs ,metrics, dashboard - everything!

the pricing is great and simple and their slack community and tech team is very responsive and helpful!

we use it on a daily basis and it has proved itself as the best solution for a startup in our size! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

more slice and dices option will be great and maybe additional dashboards and templates , but the product keeps improving and those features are already showing up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Love the easy deployment wich covers out-of-box a lot of monitoring features.

As a homeLab runner and at work need to sometimes PoC fast some products the easy install and free tier gives very fast basic overview of the workability, integrations and feel about the UI.

In-cluster data also gives some certainty to some companies when thinking about storaged data.

Basic installation looked like to give mayby most needed features when doing monitoring,, loging and tracing metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In my short and fast homlab PoC/preview couldn't get to cover deeper aspects of integrations, so nothing to dislike yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to setup

Easy to correlate between various observabilty elements

Single place to setup alerts, contact points

Friendly UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not able to use filters on logs for requestID, spanID may be need to configure for that Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.