Groundcover picks up Kubernetes optimization startup Wand in its first acquisition
Observability company groundcover Inc. today disclosed its first acquisition, picking up Kubernetes resource optimization startup Wand Cloud Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. Wand’s founders and employees are moving across to groundcover as part of the deal. The purchase is part of a push by groundcover toward what it calls autonomous infrastructure, with software taking action on […] The post…
Observability firm Groundcover announced the acquisition of Kubernetes resource optimization startup Wand Cloud, marking its first acquisition. Groundcover's platform collects telemetry from applications and infrastructure, and engineers and AI agents use the data to investigate issues and understand what has changed. Wand's technology allows for live Kubernetes cluster decision-making based on actual workload behavior, addressing the challenge of setting processor and memory requests that are often set before workloads have run under real load.
Unfortunately, both overestimating and underestimating resource requests can lead to wasted capacity or throttling and outages. Wand's software operates within the cluster to make vertical, horizontal, and cluster-level scaling decisions simultaneously. Groundcover aims to leverage Wand's capability to tune a cluster for performance and availability, with cost savings following once unneeded headroom is removed.
The deal is part of Groundcover's strategy towards autonomous infrastructure, where software directly acts on production systems. Groundcover's production data is kept at high fidelity on its platform, enabling AI agents to build, fix, and run software safely. Groundcover, a venture capital-backed startup with $160 million in total funding, plans to use Wand's technology in its own platform and for its customers.
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