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GroupAlarm: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

GroupAlarm is a SaaS platform for critical communication and alerting from cubos Internet GmbH of Herzogenrath. Organisations alert teams by app, by digital pager or through a box as a fallback, with acknowledgement of receipt. Further components include lone-worker protection with a personal emergency device, a self-contained sensor and alerting network, and integrations with fire alarm systems, IT monitoring, building systems and control-room systems through a REST API. It is aimed at emergency services, industry, healthcare and public bodies.

cubos Internet GmbH is headquartered in Herzogenrath, Germany; the pages consulted name no foreign owner. According to the vendor, the platform runs in a Kubernetes cluster on Google Cloud in the Frankfurt am Main region with local data storage, and public connections are protected by Cloudflare. Google and Cloudflare are US companies; data storage stays in Germany. A European organisation should therefore review the sub-processors and the data processing agreement.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

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Facts and evidence

Last checked October 14, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Network & Monitoring
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to GroupAlarm

The European alternatives to GroupAlarm come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with GroupAlarm

GroupAlarm is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so GroupAlarm scores best on data residency.

GroupAlarm is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs GroupAlarm together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to GroupAlarm?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to GroupAlarm include Akvorado, Centreon and Checkmk. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to GroupAlarm?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to GroupAlarm include Akvorado, Centreon, Checkmk and collectd. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is GroupAlarm GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

GroupAlarm is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes GroupAlarm an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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