Bring Your Own Cloud
(BYOC) Observability

groundcover runs inside your cloud. Keep every signal private, secure, and compliant while we manage the complexity.

Observability without the trade-offs

Traditional vendors force trade-offs: sampled data, egress fees, and unpredictable bills. groundcover flips the model: your full observability data plane runs in your cloud account, fully managed by us, fully controlled by you.

Observability with groundcover’s BYOC architecture

groundcover BYOC gives you SaaS simplicity with local control. It’s not just a place to store telemetry; it’s a production-grade observability backend deployed inside your infrastructure.

  • 5-Minute Onboarding

    Grant a scoped IAM role (AWS, GCP, or Azure). We automate the rest so there is no manual setup, no complex pipelines.

  • Isolation & Resilience

    The data plane runs separately from your workloads, maintaining uptime and reliability even during production incidents. Your monitoring remains accurate and available under all circumstances

  • Cloud-Optimized & Cost-Efficient

    Transparent infrastructure costs, economical long-term retention, and efficient data transfer let you leverage reserved instances and storage offloads. Observability is secure, resilient, and cost-efficient.

  • Security, Transparency & Control

    All actions are automated, scoped with least-privilege IAM roles, and fully visible. groundcover never has direct access to your environment, so you maintain full control over your observability deployment.

  • Local data, SaaS experience

    Keep your logs, metrics, events, and traces in your cloud while accessing everything through our UI or the embedded Grafana dashboards without compromising control or security.

  • Production-Grade Deployment

    A resilient observability data plane with automated backups, high availability, and performance tuning that are separated from workloads to ensure monitoring stays up even during incidents.

Data Platform-grade architecture

Once migrated, your observability becomes:

Cardinality control & fault tolerance:

Smart aggregation and replication keep queries fast and data safe.

High-performance ingestion:

Handles gigabytes per second with sub-second query latency.

Top-tier
compression & storage:

Hot & cold tiers reduce storage costs without sacrificing speed or queryability.

Automated scaling

Scales up during spikes and down during quiet periods.

How BYOC works

  • Sensors at the source:

    eBPF sensors capture signals on Kubernetes and Linux hosts without code changes.

  • Smart ingestion:

    Real-time aggregation, compression, and cardinality management.

  • Data plane in your cloud:

    Fully queryable, PromQL-compatible, with logs, metrics, traces, and events.

  • Unified experience:

    Same modern UI and APIs while all your data stays under your control.

Key Benefits

Predictable costs:
Pay per host, not per GB. Compression + cold storage = lower TCO.

Enterprise compliance:
Full control over data residency, retention, and policies.

Full-fidelity telemetry:
All logs, metrics, traces, and events withno sampling, no blind spots.

Performance
at scale:
Queries over millions of spans or billions of logs in seconds.

All-in-One platform:
Logs, metrics, traces, and events included withno hidden tiers or add-on costs.

Predictable costs:

Pay per host, not per GB. Compression
+ cold storage = lower TCO.

Full-fidelity telemetry:

All logs, metrics, traces, and events with
no sampling, no blind spots.

Performance at scale:

Queries over millions

of spans or billions of logs in seconds.

Enterprise compliance:

Full control over data residency,
retention, and policies.

All-in-One platform:

Logs, metrics, traces, and events included with
no hidden tiers or add-on costs.

How groundcover BYOC Compares to Traditional SaaS

Feature
groundcover BYOC
Traditional SaaS
Data location
Stays inside your cloud
Leaves your cloud
Storage model
Columnar compression + hot/cold tiers
Vendor’s black box
Scalability
Elastic pipelines, priced on average hosts
Pay for peak, often over-provisioned
Compliance
Full-fidelity data, no blind spots
Sampled to manage costs
Fidelity
Residency, sovereignty, air-gap options
Limited control
Latest Features
Residency, sovereignty, air-gap options
New features are automatically rolled out for the products you’ve purchased. But if you want a new product, additional costs
Auto-scaling for observability data
Yes
N/A since pricing is ingestion based
Infra auto-scaling & downscaling
Yes
N/A since pricing is ingestion based
Uptime SLA
Yes
Pay for peak, often over-provisioned
Backup and Restore
Yes
Yes
RBAC
Granular RBAC at namespace, cluster, 
and workload levels. For example, a user could have access to logs and traces in prod only.
Yes. RBAC via tagging data.
SSO
Yes
Yes
Retention
Yes. Retention policies can be set based on cluster, log level, namespace, etc.
Yes, but limited.

Proven in Production

groundcover BYOC powers enterprises handling petabytes of telemetry across thousands of nodes, delivering predictable costs, full fidelity, and SaaS-like simplicity.