groundcover has acquired Wand, a Kubernetes resource optimization platform. 

The acquisition, groundcover's first, moves the company from giving engineers and AI agents the context to understand production toward giving software the ability to safely act on it. Wand's founding team and employees will join groundcover. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The acquisition brings together two capabilities groundcover believes will converge as infrastructure becomes more autonomous: the context required to understand production, and the ability to act on it safely.

groundcover captures high-fidelity telemetry across applications and infrastructure using eBPF and OpenTelemetry, retaining that production history inside the customer's own cloud through its BYOC architecture. That data already gives engineers and AI agents the context to investigate issues, understand changes and determine what happened in production. Wand adds a different capability: software that uses production behavior to continuously make and execute decisions about live Kubernetes infrastructure.

"Observability has become much more than a tool engineers use to understand what went wrong," said Shahar Azulay, CEO and co-founder of groundcover. "In an AI-native software development cycle, production data becomes context that agents use to build, troubleshoot, fix and operate software. But understanding is only part of the problem. For infrastructure to become autonomous, systems also need to act safely on what they know. Wand has spent years building exactly that capability for Kubernetes."

Wand's in-cluster technology continuously analyzes workload behavior and makes vertical, horizontal and cluster-level resource decisions together, evaluating the cluster as a whole rather than one workload at a time. Rather than generating right-sizing recommendations for engineers to implement later, Wand adjusts CPU and memory allocation on live infrastructure as demand changes. It installs as a Helm chart, so teams do not take on another set of thresholds and tuning rules to maintain. Wand optimizes for performance and availability first, with cost efficiency following from running the cluster well and removing unnecessary headroom.

"Right-sizing assumes we know the future," said Shon Lev-Ran, CEO and co-founder of Wand. "Spoiler: we don't. Infrastructure changes continuously. Joining groundcover lets us combine Wand's ability to act on live infrastructure with a much deeper understanding of what is happening across production."

groundcover's architecture captures telemetry across applications and infrastructure without requiring teams to instrument every service first, and retains high-fidelity production data without forcing teams to decide in advance what to sample or discard. That history gives engineers and agents more basis for understanding what normal looks like, what changed, and how one part of production affected another.

groundcover is also extending that context beyond telemetry, connecting production data with the engineering systems where information about code, deployments, incidents and decisions lives. An agent can start with something happening in production and understand not only what changed, but why it changed and what happened afterward.

Wand's engine also runs inside the customer's environment, close to the workloads and telemetry it uses to make decisions. The two companies arrived at similar architectural principles independently: as software takes on more responsibility for live production, both the data informing those decisions and the systems acting on them should stay under the customer's control.

groundcover will apply Wand's technology in two areas.

First, groundcover will use Wand to make its own BYOC data plane more efficient and resilient. Because groundcover runs inside customer cloud environments, the resources it consumes appear directly on customer cloud bills. Making storage and processing more efficient lowers that cost, which in turn lets customers economically retain more telemetry at full fidelity — giving engineers and agents more context to work with.

Second, groundcover will bring Wand's Kubernetes resource optimization to groundcover customers, extending the platform from observing infrastructure toward operating it.

"We're bringing together the context required to understand production and the technology required to act on it," said Azulay. "You need to see what's happening before you can understand it, and understand it before you can safely act. That's the foundation we're building for autonomous infrastructure."