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24 alternatives to groundcover

Monitor K8s applications effortlessly, at scale

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. groundcover launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Observability copilot to resolve production issues instantly

    2023 · middleware.io · its alternatives →

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    Hello Everyone, I'm excited to introduce a new open-source observability platform and would love to hear your feedback. We are aware that there are lots of open-source/commercial tools out there. However, we believe that monitoring the clusters and extracting actionable insights requires deep know-how about the tools/domain. We mainly focused on this problem. - Alaz is an eBPF agent installed on your K8s cluster as DaemonSet. Thanks to eBPF, Alaz collects traces directly from Linux kernels. This means there's no need for sidecars, instrumentations, or service restarts. - The UI not…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    KloudMate▲279

    Logs, metrics, and traces in one platform. KloudMate helps engineers find and fix issues fast. Ask the built-in AI assistant to help track down the cause.

    2023 · kloudmate.com · its alternatives →

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    Devtron▲174

    Kubernetes adoption at warp speed

    2023 · devtron.ai · its alternatives →

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    Trench▲281

    Open source analytics infrastructure

    2024 · trench.dev · its alternatives →

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    Radar▲397

    The missing open-source Kubernetes UI

    May 2026 · radarhq.io · its alternatives →

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    Monitoring for websites, APIs, and cron jobs

    2024 · webgazer.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN. We’re Jay and Vadim from Highlight.io (https://highlight.io). We’re building an open source [1] monitoring platform for web applications. Today we’re excited to be sharing a performance tool we’ve been working on, which helps you inspect the latency of code execution from the client to the server. As engineers at past startups, we often had to debug slow queries, poor load times, inconsistent errors, etc... While tools like Jaegar [2] helped us inspect server-side performance, we had no way to tie user events to the traces we were inspecting. In other words, although we had…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A common open source approach to observability will begin with databases and visualizations for telemetry - Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger. But observability doesn’t begin and end here: these tools require configuration, dashboard customization, and may not actually pinpoint the data you need to mitigate system risks. Coroot was designed to solve the problem of manual, time-consuming observability analysis: it handles the full observability journey — from collecting telemetry to turning it into actionable insights. We also strongly believe that simple observability should be an innovation…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kerno▲132

    Hey HN! Anibal, Sean, Vlad, Maxi and Karim here we're the co-founders of Kerno (https://www.kerno.io/). We're building a zero-hassle tool to help developers monitor and troubleshoot their services in a way that makes sense. No complex rollouts, no custom infra, no tons of instrumentation, no sidecars… none of that! Just a minimum effort, out-of-the box, highly contextualized and interactive experience so you and your team can focus on shipping! We basically scan your cluster resources, build usable abstractions on top of all the kubernetes craziness, identify monitor your…

    Dec 2025 · kerno.io · its alternatives →

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    A graphical visualizer for Kubernetes cluster metrics.

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    kwatch▲76

    Monitor & detect crashes in Kubernetes cluster instantly

    2022 · kwatch.dev · its alternatives →

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    An eBPF tool monitoring a goroutine. Contribute to keisku/gmon development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Kubernetes native troubleshooting platform

    2021 · komodor.com · its alternatives →

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    Nixstats▲117

    A new powerful monitoring tool for your server and website.

    2017 · login.webpros.com · its alternatives →

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    ServiceRadar is an open-source platform for distributed, secure network management and observability, scaling to 100k+ devices. Born from frustration with complex traditional NMS tools like Zabbix, it bridges legacy (SNMP/syslog) and modern (gNMI, OTLP) protocols for cloud-native environments. We built ServiceRadar to simplify monitoring hybrid telecom networks, evolving it into a Kubernetes-native solution with Helm and Docker support. It uses mTLS with SPIFFE/SPIRE, NATS JetStream for event streaming (90M+ EPS), and SRQL for intuitive queries. Integrated with OpenTelemetry,…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Dynamically instrument Live applications from your IDE

    2023 · lightrun.com · its alternatives →

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    K8R▲65

    Kubernetes cluster visualization focused on customization.

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Uncorking K8s bottlenecks and insights, one pod at a time

    2025 · bottlenetes.com · its alternatives →

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    ContainIQ▲123

    Kubernetes native monitoring instantly

    2021 · airtable.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We’re Yann, Edouard, and Bastien from Koyeb (https://www.koyeb.com/). We’re building a platform to let you deploy full-stack apps on high-performance hardware around the world, with zero configuration. We provide a “global serverless feeling”, without the hassle of re-writing all your apps or managing k8s complexity [1]. We built Scaleway, a cloud service provider where we designed ARM servers and provided them as cloud servers. During our time there, we saw customers struggle with the same issues while trying to deploy full-stack applications and APIs resiliently. As…

    2023 · koyeb.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs - uptrace/uptrace

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Binocs▲67

    The uptime monitoring tool for the web in your CLI

    2022 · its alternatives →

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