Gartner Magic Quadrant 2026
Modern observability platforms promise insight, but often at the cost of control, runaway spend, or vendor lock-in. In the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms, we believe Gartner evaluates the state of the market and discusses emerging architectural shifts that challenge the status quo. If you’re operating large-scale Kubernetes, cloud-native, or regulated environments, in our opinion we believe this research helps you understand which approaches are built for today’s operational realities, and which are not.
groundcover is named by Gartner as an Honorable Mention in this report. With a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Observability architecture, groundcover provides full-stack visibility into applications, infrastructure, Kubernetes workloads, and AI services using a single eBPF sensor.
Download the full Gartner report and we believe you will see how observability platforms are evolving, what tradeoffs Gartner discusses across architectures, and why control over telemetry data is becoming a critical differentiator for engineering-led organizations.
As observability becomes foundational to digital operations, its total cost of ownership is emerging as a board-level concern. We feel the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms discusses how rising data volumes, consumption-based pricing, and architectural complexity are driving unexpected long-term costs across modern observability stacks. We feel this research gives executives a clear view into where value is created and where hidden costs accumulate.
Gartner named groundcover as an Honorable Mention. By keeping all telemetry data inside the customer’s cloud environment, groundcover eliminates data egress fees, reduces vendor lock-in, and delivers predictable, infrastructure-aligned observability economics. The result is lower long-term spend, stronger control over data, and fewer tradeoffs between visibility, security, and cost.
Download the full report and we believe you will understand how Gartner evaluates observability platforms, the financial implications of different architectural approaches, and why organizations are rethinking observability as a strategic investment and not a runaway operating expense.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, 13 July 2026, Et Al.
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