Case Study: Slickdeals saves 6 months of dev time with groundcover

Slickdeals saves 6 months of dev time by choosing groundcover over a DIY, open source stack

Slickdeals, a popular online deals platform, needed a modern observability solution for its Kubernetes-based cloud migration but found traditional APM tools too expensive. Their small platform team estimated it would take six months to build a DIY monitoring stack using open-source tools. groundcover provided its cloud-native observability platform, which uses eBPF technology for full-stack visibility without requiring code instrumentation.

By implementing groundcover, Slickdeals instantly gained comprehensive monitoring across all environments, replacing multiple legacy tools. The solution saved an estimated six months of engineering effort that would have been spent building an in-house system. groundcover also enabled faster troubleshooting and provided full observability coverage across their entire infrastructure without the high costs associated with other vendors.

Slickdeals

JT

Director of Platform Engineering