groundcover Becomes an Approved Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot Partner

groundcover Becomes an Approved Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot Partnergroundcover Becomes an Approved Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot Partner

SAN FRANCISCO -- September 15, 2026 - groundcover, a leading bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC), eBPF and OpenTelemetry (OTel)-native observability platform, today announced it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Network as a Select Google Cloud Technology Partner and is now an approved workload for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot.

GKE Autopilot is Google's fully managed Kubernetes cluster, built to handle infrastructure, scaling, and security on a customer's behalf. Autopilot protects users by only running elevated privilege workloads that have been allow-listed by the customer or through Google Cloud’s partner program.   

"Autopilot enables teams to stop babysitting their infrastructure, and observability shouldn’t be the one place they still have to compromise," said John Broad, Head of Partners & Alliances at groundcover. "Getting approved as a partner workload means engineers get the same zero-instrumentation depth of visibility they'd get anywhere else, without breaking Autopilot's security model to do so. "

Full-Stack Visibility Without Giving Up Managed Kubernetes

Teams that move to Autopilot typically trade cluster-level visibility for operational simplicity. groundcover's approval removes that trade-off: its single eBPF sensor captures telemetry across infrastructure, applications, Kubernetes workloads, and AI services on every node, without sidecars, application code changes or manual instrumentation.

With the integration live, groundcover customers running or migrating to GKE Autopilot can:

  • Deploy groundcover on Autopilot clusters without modifying applications
  • Capture full-stack telemetry through a single eBPF sensor
  • Keep Autopilot's managed operational model fully intact
  • Install through Google's approved allowlisting process for privileged partner workloads

groundcover is available now as an approved GKE Autopilot partner workload. Teams running new or existing Autopilot clusters can install the groundcover eBPF sensor through Google's partner allowlisting process and begin collecting full-fidelity telemetry within minutes. Documentation is available on the GKE Autopilot partners page.

To learn more about how groundcover brings zero-instrumentation, full-stack observability to GKE Autopilot and how to get started, visit https://www.groundcover.com//blog/gke-autopilot-support.

About groundcover

groundcover is the full-stack observability platform for engineers & agents, allowing teams to monitor everything they run in their cloud, without compromising on data, control, or cost. It’s deployed inside the customer’s cloud premises and provides complete visibility into applications, infrastructure, and AI workloads without operational overhead. The platform offers unlimited data coverage at a fraction of the cost of legacy observability tools. Founded in 2021, the company is backed by leading global investors, including One Peak, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, Zeev Ventures, Angular Ventures, Heavybit and Jibe. Learn more at https://www.groundcover.com. 

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