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groundcover

Signals Provided
  • Metrics - Performance metrics from applications and infrastructure
  • Symptoms - Automatic symptom detection from metrics, traces, and external monitoring systems
  • Traces - Distributed traces for service dependency discovery and communication monitoring

groundcover is an eBPF-based application performance monitoring solution that automatically collects telemetry data from your applications without requiring code instrumentation or configuration changes.

How groundcover works​

groundcover uses eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology to automatically capture:

  • HTTP and gRPC requests - Service-to-service communication
  • Database queries - SQL operations and connection details
  • Messaging operations - Kafka, RabbitMQ, and other messaging systems
  • Service dependencies - Automatic discovery of service relationships
  • Performance metrics - Latency, throughput, and error rates

To learn more about how groundcover works, see the groundcover documentation.

Integration with Causely​

groundcover sends collected telemetry data to Causely's mediator using the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP). This enables Causely to:

  • Analyze service dependencies and communication patterns
  • Identify actual causes of performance issues and outages
  • Correlate events across your entire infrastructure
  • Provide automated incident response and resolution

Configuration​

To enable groundcover as a data source for Causely, add the following configuration to your groundcover installation:

groundcover-values.yaml
opentelemetry-collector:
  config:
    exporters:
      otlp/causely:
        endpoint: mediator.causely:4317
        tls:
          insecure: true
          insecure_skip_verify: true
    service:
      pipelines:
        traces/causely:
          exporters:
            - otlp/causely
          processors:
            - batch/traces
          receivers:
            - otlp
            - datadog
            - faro

Installation​

Install groundcover with the Causely integration enabled:

helm install groundcover groundcover/groundcover --values ./groundcover-values.yaml

Once installed, groundcover will automatically begin collecting telemetry data and forwarding it to Causely for causal reasoning.