Case Study: Nobl9 cuts observability costs by 50% with groundcover

Nobl9 Cuts Observability Costs by 50% with groundcover

Nobl9, an observability platform that helps organizations track reliability goals, was struggling with soaring observability costs from its previous APM provider, Datadog. The high costs, which had grown to 15-20% of their total cloud spend, forced them to limit monitoring coverage in development and test environments, hindering debugging and development velocity. Seeking a cost-effective alternative, they turned to the vendor groundcover.

groundcover implemented its eBPF-based observability solution, which required zero code changes to deploy and provided auto-instrumentation for logs, traces, and metrics. This solution gave Nobl9 full control over data storage and costs through a self-hosted model. As a result, Nobl9 cut its observability costs by 50%, expanded coverage to all its environments, and completed a seamless migration in under two months.

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Alex Nauda

Chief Technology Officer