Cool, Confirmed: groundcover Named a Cool Vendor by Gartner

Modern Observability Company is Recognized in the 2025 Cool Vendors in Container Management Report

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--groundcover, the BYOC-driven observability platform for modern architectures, today announced it was recognized in Gartner’s 2025 Cool Vendors in Container Management Report, which includes vendors that provide “innovative solutions that address various challenges associated with the life cycle of container deployments.”

groundcover has redefined observability with the world's first "Bring Your Own Cloud" (BYOC) observability solution, enabling customers to host data on-premises or in the cloud of their choice while remaining fully managed by groundcover. It's a one-of-a-kind approach that provides users with world-class privacy, security, and predictable pricing, eliminating the data limitations common to other leading observability platforms. Dozens of organizations have already successfully migrated from Datadog to the groundcover platform, including fast-growing tech companies and businesses on the Fortune 100 list.

"Being recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor validates our belief that observability needed a complete reset," said Shahar Azulay, CEO and Co-Founder of groundcover. "Our platform provides all-in-one observability across infrastructure, applications, and agentic workflows with no tiers, no gates, no limits. Our Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) architecture enables teams to capture every signal without sampling or rate limits, enjoy the simplicity of SaaS, and maintain full control over their data, privacy, and costs."

As developers increasingly rely on containerized applications, infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams must rethink how they manage the container lifecycle. Gartner recommends prioritizing security and adopting cloud-native tools over legacy solutions; groundcover addresses these needs with its full observability suite, leveraging eBPF-based data collection from the Linux kernel to deliver deep visibility into traces, metrics, logs, and infrastructure performance, all while keeping data secure in the customer’s environment.

For more information on groundcover's end-to-end observability with lower costs, full data, and zero maintenance, visit https://www.groundcover.com.

Gartner, "Cool Vendors in Container Management," Dennis Smith, Tony Iams, and Lucas Albuquerque, Sept. 25, 2025.

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About groundcover

groundcover is a cloud-native observability platform powered by eBPF that breaks free from the limits of SaaS. Built for modern production environments, it runs entirely in your cloud to deliver full visibility at a fraction of the cost, with no blind spots, no compromises, and no operational overhead. For more information, visit https://www.groundcover.com.