The AI that investigates your stack, from inside it

Most AI tools in observability work by connecting to your data via API and sending it to an external LLM, meaning your production logs, traces, and service credentials pass through at least two third parties. groundcover's agent runs on Amazon Bedrock inside your own AWS account. The AI processes data where the data lives. Nothing leaves. This is not a configuration option; it is how the product is built. The result: no compliance conversation, no security review, no third party to trust.

An AI agent is only as good as the data it can see. Tools built on OpenTelemetry can only answer questions about services that were manually instrumented, which is never the complete picture. groundcover deploys an eBPF sensor at the kernel, capturing automatic telemetry across every service, database connection, and network call without any developer instrumentation. This lets the AI Mode answer questions that manual instrumentation makes impossible: which services are talking to each other, what databases are running, what changed in the last hour. The data advantage is structural and no competitor can replicate it without rebuilding their instrumentation layer from scratch.

Yes. Most AI agents in observability are incident-triggered and only activate when an alert fires. groundcover's agent supports open-ended investigation: questions without a pre-existing monitor, incident ticket, or known failure state. This covers the majority of day-to-day engineering work, from exploring unusual patterns and validating a deployment to understanding why a specific service is slow for one customer but not others. AI Mode is designed for daily use, not just on-call firefighting.

Every signal groundcover collects, including logs, traces, metrics, and events, is enriched with a cross-signal identifier at ingest. AI Mode walks through them and connects the dots automatically. It sees container images, environment variables, DNS usage, traffic patterns, and inter-service connections. From that data alone it infers what each service does, who it talks to, and what normal behavior looks like. No one needs to document the topology manually. AI Mode builds it from data it already has and refines it over time. One customer recently described spending weeks building a manual topology map so their SRE agent could function. With groundcover, that map already exists and is built from live data, not documentation.

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GCQL is groundcover's unified query language, a single interface for querying logs, metrics, traces, events, entities, and monitors. Most observability platforms accumulate a different query model for each data type, which means an AI agent has to know which interface to use, translate between them, and reassemble the results. groundcover's agent learns one language, not seven. Every query it runs is visible in the relevant product page and can be modified, saved as a monitor, or turned into a dashboard widget. AI Mode teaches you to do what it does. Nothing is a black box.

Agent output creates first-class groundcover assets: dashboards, monitors, GCQL queries, and OTTL pipelines. Everything the AI Mode builds uses the same schema as the rest of the platform, so outputs are immediately usable and not exports that need to be reformatted or re-entered. Every tool call is visible in the relevant product page. The AI Mode can also run background jobs during off-hours, auto-generating service topology maps, daily incident summaries, and suggested configuration changes, all surfaced for review before anything is applied.

The groundcover AI Agent is included in Pro, Enterprise, and OnPrem plans with no AI surcharge. You pay your own Amazon Bedrock token costs directly at cost with no groundcover markup. Quota budgets can be set per user or team to keep usage predictable. Visit our pricing page for more information.

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