Atatus gives you code-level APM, logs, RUM, infrastructure and security monitoring as a hosted service, on Kubernetes, Linux, Windows or macOS.
groundcover traces Kubernetes services with an eBPF sensor and keeps every signal in a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) backend inside your VPC. That backend, including its ClickHouse database, runs on compute and storage in your own cloud account. groundcover manages it, but your cloud provider bills you for it on top of the per-host fee. The sensor also needs eBPF-enabled Linux, and eBPF traces stop at the protocol level: you see the request and the query, not the function that made them. Atatus is hosted for you, instruments your code with language agents or OpenTelemetry, and runs on Windows and macOS hosts as well as Linux and Kubernetes.
Atatus runs the storage and query backend for you. There is no database in your account to size for traffic peaks, plan high availability for, or pay your cloud provider for. If data must stay on your own servers, the Atatus on-premises edition runs inside your network.
Atatus APM agents for Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, Go and .NET record code-level traces, stack traces and N+1 queries, with continuous profiling for Go, Java and Node.js.
One infrastructure agent covers Linux, Windows and macOS, and uptime checks run from nine global locations, so you see your service the way users in other regions see it.
Six places where Atatus gives your team more than groundcover, with less to run.
If you'd rather not run and pay for an observability database in your own cloud account, Atatus hosts the whole backend for you.
Language agents trace requests through your code, database queries and external calls, so you see what made a request slow, with stack traces for errors.
Windows and macOS servers, VMs, serverless functions and Kubernetes clusters all report to the same place.
HTTP, API, SSL and DNS checks run every minute from nine global locations, outside your own network.
SIEM with MITRE ATT&CK mapped rules, file integrity monitoring and security audit logs sit next to your APM and logs.
Database monitoring for seven engines, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle and MongoDB, with query samples, explain plans and deadlock detection.
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Hosted SaaS: Atatus runs the storage and query backend, with nothing to deploy in your cloud
On-premises edition when data must stay on your own servers, including air-gapped networks
APM, RUM, session replay, logs, infrastructure, Kubernetes, database and security monitoring in one place
Language agents for 7 runtimes, plus OpenTelemetry (OTLP) ingest
AI root cause analysis and an MCP server for AI coding assistants
No fully hosted option: the backend always runs in your cloud account (BYOC) or on your premises
Backend compute and storage are billed by your cloud provider, on top of the per-host fee
No SIEM or file integrity monitoring
Logs, metrics, traces, RUM, synthetics, AI observability and an MCP server
"Solid Product even better support." The integration path is incredibly simple/easy and the overall interface is very intuitive. That said, I had a handful of odd use cases that the support team was incredibly responsive in helping me work through.
Straight answers on cost, setup and coverage.
groundcover collects data with an eBPF sensor on Kubernetes and Linux hosts and keeps it in a backend that runs in your own cloud account (BYOC). Atatus is a hosted platform: you install language agents or send OpenTelemetry data, and Atatus stores and queries it for you, with nothing to run in your cloud. groundcover's eBPF sensor needs no code changes, but it sees requests between services rather than what happens inside your code, and it runs only on Linux. Atatus agents give you code-level detail, run on Windows and macOS as well, and come with database and security monitoring.
groundcover charges one all-signals price per host, from $30 a month on its Pro plan, and its backend runs in your cloud account, so your cloud provider also bills you for that compute and storage. Atatus is hosted, so there is no cloud bill on top, and you pay only for the products you use: infrastructure monitoring from $15 and APM from $49 per host a month on yearly billing, and logs from $0.75 per ingested GB.
If your services already send OpenTelemetry data to groundcover, point the SDKs or Collector at the Atatus OTLP endpoint and keep your instrumentation. If you rely on the eBPF sensor alone, install the Atatus agent for each language you run: Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, Go or .NET.
Yes, with the Atatus on-premises edition, which runs inside your own network, including air-gapped environments. The standard Atatus service is hosted SaaS, so there is nothing to run unless you need that.
Atatus monitors clusters, nodes, pods and containers, with pod logs, events and deployment health, from $15 per node plus $0.84 per pod a month on yearly billing. Unlike groundcover's sensor, the same Atatus agents also cover the Windows and macOS servers around your clusters.
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