Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 32 → 33 of 41
4 categories · Named, not rankedgroundcover
24Judge labels
10First choices
1Negative labels
10 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
5 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. groundcover was named 5 times in Observability and 3 other categories, where Grafana led with 27%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business38 of 47
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market28 of 80
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise4 of 57
12%7 labels
under the label threshold
In observability · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named groundcover for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observability platforms | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 28 of 80 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 27% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Application performance monitoring | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 58 of 66 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 46% | goneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026. |
| Data quality and observability | Data platform | 0% | 106 of 110 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Metaplane at 31% | |
| Log management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 42 of 73 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Datadog Log Management at 28% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, groundcover held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Observability · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 38 → 27 of 76
Enterprise▼−6Since September 2026: 17% → 11%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
11%from 17% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 3 → 4 of 56
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observability | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 38 → 28 of 80 |
| APM | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 25 → 58 of 66 |
| Data observability | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 106 of 110, unchanged |
| Logs | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 42 of 73, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated groundcover across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated groundcover across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained19 labels10
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative24 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 of the 10 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If you're Kubernetes-centric: Groundcover and Loki together give you lightweight, container-native logging.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Logs · budget prompt · alternative
“Best for strict cost predictability: groundcover or Coralogix” Perplexity Sonar · Observability · budget prompt · alternative
“Flat per-node pricing, independent of data volume” Kimi K2 · Observability · negative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Kubernetes-focused tools (e.g., groundcover) falter on on-prem/hybrid setups” Grok 4.20 · Data observability · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as groundcover, over the 24 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and groundcover was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as groundcover, over the 24 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and groundcover was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named groundcover. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 24 of the 24 answers that named groundcover and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
groundcover.comYour site22
openobserve.ai14
coralogix.com12
uptrace.dev11
motadata.com10
augmentcode.com8
cribl.io8
cubeapm.com7
guideflow.com7
newrelic.com7
Eighty-four of the 106 domain citations in answers naming groundcover came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
groundcover.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, groundcover takes 0% of first choices and Grafana takes 27%.ShowHide
Search and answers
groundcover.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, groundcover takes 0% of first choices and Grafana takes 27%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “observability platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “observability platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 14,800 a month (“groundcover”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,328 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 9,109 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,254 · 278 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,132
- Paid Google search
- 6 searches its ads show for, about 57 clicks and $792 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 28 of 80 in observability
Segment leader
27%
Grafana
- First choices
- 10 across its categories
- Named in
- 24 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 24 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on groundcover.com
931
subdomains included
Content
475
counted in the table below
Documentation
286
Product · Integration
15 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 146 | 1 | 2026-08-12 | APM, Logs | |
| Glossary or explainer | 119 | 26 | 2026-08-29 | Observability | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 57 | undated | APM | ||
| Report or ebook | 49 | 28 | 2026-09-03 | APM, Observability | |
| Comparison | 49 | 0 | 2026-02-12 | ||
| Case study | 27 | 3 | 2026-08-19 | ||
| News or press | 25 | 8 | 2026-09-24 | Observability, Infra monitoring | |
| Template or tool | 2 | 1 | 2026-08-19 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Ceo of groundcover shahar azulay overviews new opportunities post wand deal news or press
- 2026-09-24Groundcover acquires wand to build toward autonomous infrastructure news or press
- 2026-09-15Groundcover becomes an approved google kubernetes engine autopilot partner news or press
- 2026-09-15Groundcover gains google cloud gke autopilot approval news or press
- 2026-09-03Ai observability evaluation platforms compared report or ebook
- 2026-09-03Apm tools comparison engineering teams report or ebook
Events in person
Last twelve months
- March 25, 2026From Billions of Rows to Sub-Second Queries for K8s StacksAmsterdam · spoke
- March 24, 2026 to March 26, 2026KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Amsterdam 2026Amsterdam · exhibited
- March 23, 2026Tulips & Taps: Welkom to Kubecon Happy HourHeineken Experience, Amsterdam · hosted
As the event pages on groundcover.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page groundcover.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as groundcover
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as groundcover; a claim can dispute any of them.
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The company
groundcover is its own company.ShowHide
The company
groundcover is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The full-stack observability platform for engineers & agents
- For
- engineers & agents
- Price stated
- Every signal. One price. groundcover.com
- Starting price
- 0 groundcover.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Start Free groundcover.com
- Certifications
- CCPAGDPRHIPAAISO/IEC 27001:2022SOC 2 Type 2PCI DSS
- Customers named
- Slickdealsb.wellCrestaRiskifiedex-coProofpointIroncladWorkday
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What groundcover's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: groundcover.com, groundcover.com/pricing, trust.groundcover.com, groundcover.com/product/gcql, groundcover.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when groundcover's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as groundcover, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for groundcover by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where groundcover is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name groundcover, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.