Better Stack

Better Stack is a comprehensive observability platform designed to help engineering teams ship higher-quality software faster. It provides a unified solution for uptime monitoring, incident management, log management, infrastructure monitoring, and status page communication. With a focus on reliability and collaboration, Better Stack empowers teams to detect, investigate, and resolve issues efficiently across their entire stack.

  • Uptime Monitoring: Monitor up to 10 endpoints and receive real-time alerts via phone, SMS, push notifications, and Slack. Features include screenshots for errors, traceroute and MTR diagnostics, and Playwright-based transaction checks using a real browser environment.
  • Incident Management & On-Call: Streamline incident response with Slack-based workflows, AI-powered incident silencing, smart incident merging, and automated post-mortems. Reduce alert fatigue and ensure the right team members are notified instantly.
  • Log Management: Collect and analyze logs at scale, with the ability to store data in your own S3 bucket. Enjoy always-available data with customizable retention and the capability to search up to 1 billion log lines per second.
  • Infrastructure Monitoring: Leverage OpenTelemetry and Prometheus-native integrations for real-time anomaly detection, collaborative dashboards, and flexible querying using drag & drop, SQL, or PromQL.
  • Status Pages: Communicate downtime transparently with branded, customizable status pages. Enable customer subscriptions, multi-language support, and embed custom charts for advanced visualizations.

Better Stack is trusted by leading engineering teams worldwide and is committed to helping organizations build trust, reduce downtime, and accelerate software delivery.

Included in the Free Tier

  • Access to 10 monitors and heartbeats
  • E-mail alerts with 3 minute checks
  • 1 status page included
  • Up to 10 team members
  • 3 GB ingested logs per month retained for 3 days
  • 2 billion ingested metrics data points retained for 30 days
  • Connect with Slack integration
  • 2-month incident history
  • On-call scheduling for responders included
  • Basic single-channel Slack incident management integration
  • Single Sign-On with Google included

Visit the Better Stack Pricing Page for more information on its free tier offering.