How is your enterprise tracking AI agent telemetry? Groundcover thinks it should never leave your cloud

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The AI agent observability space is taking off — but how can enterprises be sure what observability products and solutions they need?

Observability startup groudcover (lower case "g" intentional) announced this week that it raised $100 million in a round led by One Peak, bringing its total funding to $160 million.

The company says it has more than 250 paying customers, tripled annual recurring revenue over the past year and is increasingly replacing established observability platforms inside enterprise environments. Those are company-reported figures, but together they point to growing momentum in one of enterprise software's most competitive markets.

That market has long been dominated by companies including Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk and Grafana. Between them, they represent billions of dollars in annual revenue and years of product maturity. Breaking into that group has never been easy.

groundcover's argument is that artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed the assumptions those platforms...

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