Groundcover

groundcover is a cloud-native observability platform that uses eBPF for zero-instrumentation monitoring of Kubernetes and Linux workloads, covering logs, metrics, traces, Kubernetes events, real user monitoring, synthetics and AI/LLM observability. Its BYOC (bring your own cloud) architecture keeps the data plane inside the customer's own VPC, which lets it price per monitored host rather than per ingested byte. Programmatic access is delivered through a REST API at api.groundcover.com (gcQL search endpoints for logs, traces and Kubernetes events, a Prometheus-compatible metrics API, and management endpoints for monitors, silences, ingestion keys and pipelines), a remote MCP server at mcp.groundcover.com for agents, official Go, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI, and Terraform, Pulumi and Crossplane providers.

Groundcover publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include AIOps, Observability, Kubernetes, eBPF, and Monitoring.

The Groundcover catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Groundcover’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, and 30 more developer resources.

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61.2/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 50/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

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1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

AIOps Observability Kubernetes eBPF Monitoring Logs Traces Metrics OpenTelemetry MCP

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 61.2/100 · strong

Contract Quality 10.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 13.8 / 20

Access Clarity 20.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 7.2 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 50/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Groundcover

The groundcover platform REST API. Data query endpoints run gcQL pipelines against logs (POST /api/logs/v2/search), trace spans (POST /api/traces/v2/search) and Kubernetes event...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

groundcover MCP Server

groundcover publishes a first-party hosted (remote) MCP server that brings live observability data — logs, traces, Kubernetes events, live entity state, monitor issues, monitor ...

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Groundcover Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Groundcover Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Groundcover Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Groundcover Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Groundcover Authentication

5 schemes

SECURITY

Groundcover Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Groundcover Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Groundcover Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LlmsText

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

WellKnown

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Conformance

Webhooks

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

DataModel

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

ToolCrosswalk

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

Compliance

DomainSecurity

OAuthScopes

Authentication

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

ChangeLog

Deprecation

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: groundcover
name: Groundcover
description: groundcover is a cloud-native observability platform that uses eBPF for zero-instrumentation monitoring of Kubernetes
  and Linux workloads, covering logs, metrics, traces, Kubernetes events, real user monitoring, synthetics and AI/LLM observability.
  Its BYOC (bring your own cloud) architecture keeps the data plane inside the customer's own VPC, which lets it price per
  monitored host rather than per ingested byte. Programmatic access is delivered through a REST API at api.groundcover.com
  (gcQL search endpoints for logs, traces and Kubernetes events, a Prometheus-compatible metrics API, and management endpoints
  for monitors, silences, ingestion keys and pipelines), a remote MCP server at mcp.groundcover.com for agents, official Go,
  Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI, and Terraform, Pulumi and Crossplane providers.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/groundcover.png
tags:
- AIOps
- Observability
- Kubernetes
- eBPF
- Monitoring
- Logs
- Traces
- Metrics
- OpenTelemetry
- MCP
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/groundcover/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-27'
modified: '2026-08-29'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: groundcover:groundcover
  name: Groundcover
  description: The groundcover platform REST API. Data query endpoints run gcQL pipelines against logs (POST /api/logs/v2/search),
    trace spans (POST /api/traces/v2/search) and Kubernetes events (POST /api/k8s/v2/events/search); metrics are queried through
    a Prometheus-compatible API. Management endpoints cover monitors, one-time and recurring silences, workflows, ingestion
    keys, API keys, service accounts, RBAC policies, dashboards, destinations, notification routes, storage management, synthetics,
    RUM and log/trace/metric pipelines. Authentication is a service-account API key sent as a bearer token, with X-Backend-Id
    routing for accounts that own more than one backend.
  humanURL: https://docs.groundcover.com/use-groundcover/remote-access-and-apis/api-examples
  baseURL: https://api.groundcover.com
  tags:
  - AIOps
  - Observability
  - Kubernetes
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.groundcover.com/use-groundcover/remote-access-and-apis
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.groundcover.com/use-groundcover/remote-access-and-apis/api-examples
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/groundcover-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/groundcover-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/groundcover-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/groundcover-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/groundcover-data-model.yml
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/groundcover-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/groundcover-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/groundcover-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/groundcover-com
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/groundcover-com
- type: Website
  url: https://www.groundcover.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.groundcover.com
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.groundcover.com/use-groundcover/remote-access-and-apis/api-examples
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.groundcover.com/getting-started/5-quick-steps-to-get-you-started
- type: Support
  url: https://www.groundcover.com/support-plans
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.groundcover.com/pricing
- type: Plans
  url: plans/groundcover-plans-pricing.yml
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.groundcover.com/start
- type: Login
  url: https://app.groundcover.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.groundcover.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.groundcover.com/privacy-policy
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.groundcover.com/integrations
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.groundcover.com/llms.txt
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/groundcover-llms.txt
- url: https://www.groundcover.com/blog
  type: Blog
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/groundcover-changelog.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/groundcover-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/groundcover-lifecycle.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/groundcover-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/groundcover-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/groundcover-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/groundcover-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/groundcover-cli.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/groundcover-sandbox.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/groundcover-well-known.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/groundcover-scopes.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/groundcover-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/groundcover-conformance.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/groundcover-webhooks.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/groundcover-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/groundcover-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/groundcover-data-model.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/groundcover-rate-limits.yml
integrations:
- name: groundcover
- name: Kubernetes
- name: OpenTelemetry
- name: Prometheus
- name: AWS S3 (Logs ingestion)
- name: Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- name: Microsoft Azure
- name: MongoDB Atlas
- name: Redis Cloud
- name: Datadog
- name: Istio
- name: FluentBit
- name: FluentD
- name: RabbitMQ
- name: Cloudflare
- name: GitHub
- name: OpenAI Codex
- name: Claude Code
- name: Claude Cowork
- name: OpenClaw
- name: AI & LLM Observability
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-29'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 19
  pass: local-v1

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