G2 Vendor Directory

ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) vs. groundcover

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)

by ServiceNow

groundcover

by Groundcover

Overall rating4.64.8
Review count2026
Ease of use9.39.0
Ease of setup9.09.3
Quality of support9.79.4
Meets requirements9.29.2
NPS73.68421188.461538
Small Business20.0%38.5%
Mid-Market35.0%50.0%
Enterprise45.0%11.5%
Total page views59251
Total LLM citations2381,007

ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)

Lightstep’s observability platform is the easiest way for developers and SREs to monitor health and respond to changes in cloud-native applications. Powered by cutting-edge distributed tracing and a groundbreaking metrics database, and built by the team that launched observability at Google, Lightstep’s Change Intelligence provides actionable insights to help teams answer the question “What caused that change? Lightstep empowers reliability and observability managers to minimize the impact of outages, improve software performance, and build org-wide standards to drive adoption and automation.

Pros

    groundcover

    Observability, for the Cloud. Monitor everything you run in your cloud without compromising on cost, granularity, or scale.

    Pros

    • Ease of Use
    • Monitoring
    • User Interface
    • Tracing
    • Easy Setup
    • Tracking