Compare your true observability cost

At groundcover, we believe observability costs should be predictable and transparent. This calculator estimates your total cost of ownership and compares it to other platforms - based on real usage.

Cost Calculator

Calculate your total cost of ownership based on your actual usage. Our estimates include infrastructure, ingestion, and platform fees.

Reduced operational burden is not taken into account by the calculator. Those savings are significant, but we like to think you can’t put a price on sleeping through the night.

Hosts

Kubernetes nodes

nodes

1010,000

Logs

Daily ingestion

GB/day

10 GB20 TB

Traces

Daily ingestion

GB/day

10 GB20 TB

Custom Metrics

Active time series

0M50,000,000

Logs Retention

days

Traces Retention

days

Metrics Retention

days

Cost Breakdown Total Cost of Ownership

groundcover license $30/node/month

$180,000

BYOC Hosting Total

$23,343

Cloud Provider fees$12,050

Block Storage$9,886

Object Storage$1,407

Total Cost$203,343/year

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Large Scale

1.9K nodes

Medium Scale

450 nodes

Small Scale

50 nodes

Medium Scale (1 year retention)

300 nodes

Metrics Heavy Environment

40M time series

Logs Heavy Environment

5.9TB/day

$180,000/yr

($1,945/month)

TOTAL COST$23,343

BYOC Hosting Total$23,343

Estimated BYOC Hosting Cost

$203,343/year

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Are there other billing options?

We can customize billing plans to meet your needs. Contact sales → to learn more.

What is considered a host for billing?

A Kubernetes host or any Linux host (of any size) that is actively monitored by the groundcover platform.

How does groundcover calculate the number of hosts I pay for each month?

We keep track of the number of monitored hosts in each environment, and calculate the pricing based on the average number of hosts over the past month so you pay for your average host usage, and not for short-lived peaks.

What makes groundcover’s pricing model unique?

groundcover uses a unique BYOC architecture that processes and stores all your observability data within the walls of your own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This cost-effective architecture allows us to break the customary ingestion-based pricing models, offering a solution with predictable and fair pricing.

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