groundcover to Showcase Enhanced Agent Mode at Microsoft Build 2026, Now Live on Microsoft Azure

groundcover, the world’s leading bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) observability platform, announced an update to Agent Mode, adding native support for Microsoft Azure. With this release, all groundcover customers on Azure now have access to a production-grade observability agent that runs exclusively inside their own cloud environment. The agent can now run on Azure against Anthropic Claude models hosted on Microsoft Foundry.

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Unlike SaaS-based alternatives, groundcover’s BYOC approach eliminates the markups that have forced engineering teams to renegotiate contracts, implement adaptive sampling or explore open-source workarounds. According to Atomik Research Group, 79% of engineering teams in 2026 have already taken at least one of these cost-cutting measures, while only 22% say they’re “very confident” their observability tools capture the high-fidelity signals needed to detect real AI issues, including logs, traces, reasoning steps and model outputs.

Further, 87% of organizations have AI integrated into their observability workflows, but only 34% describe that integration as fully operational and trusted. That 53-point gap is significant, pointing directly to what groundcover’s Agent Mode solves.

Agent Mode is built into the groundcover platform and can answer questions that are structurally out of reach for most SaaS observability platforms, even those with the most intentional OpenTelemetry instrumentation.

WHAT: groundcover Agent Mode, a native agentic observability experience now available on Microsoft Azure, running entirely within the customer’s own cloud.
WHO: groundcover spokespeople and product team members will be available for interviews and live demos.
WHEN: Tuesday, June 2, and Wednesday, June 3, 2026.
WHERE: Microsoft Build 2026 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco | Booth G-222.

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