About
Better Stack is an observability and incident response platform that helps teams monitor infrastructure, trace requests, manage logs, track errors, and communicate outages from a single product suite.
It combines AI-assisted root cause analysis with practical operational tools so engineering teams can detect issues faster, investigate them with richer context, and coordinate responses without switching between multiple systems.
- AI SRE for agentic root cause analysis and incident assistance
- Uptime monitoring, heartbeats, and transaction checks
- Log management, tracing, infrastructure monitoring, and error tracking
- Incident management, on-call workflows, and status pages
- Real user monitoring and a time series data warehouse
Free Tier Value
The page explicitly shows a free-for-personal-projects tier with capped recurring quotas: 10 monitors/heartbeats, 100,000 exceptions, 5,000 session replays, 3 GB logs for 3 days, 30 GB metrics, 3 GB web events for 3 days, 3 GB warehouse events for 30 days, and 1 status page. Because this is a capped free tier, I did not mark it unbounded; and since the page includes a sign-up flow, I set no_cc_required to false. The free tier value is usage-based and conservative, but the prompt requires a single number only when a clear paid-plan comparison is possible; here the page does not provide a direct paid-plan equivalent for the bundled free quotas, so I set free_tier_value_usd_per_month to null rather than fabricate a number.
What's included in the free tier
- Access to 10 monitors and heartbeats.
- Receive Slack and e-mail alerts.
- Track 100,000 exceptions per month.
- Use 5,000 session replays.
- Store 3 GB of logs for 3 days.
- Use 30 GB of metrics.
- Store 3 GB of web events for 3 days.
- Store 3 GB of warehouse events for 30 days.
- Include one status page.
See Better Stack pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Responder
- license
- 1 responder license
- status pages
- 1 included
- phone call alerts
- unlimited
- SMS alerts
- unlimited
- Access to Uptime with incident management
- On-call scheduling
- Monitoring
- Status pages
- Unlimited phone call alerts
- Unlimited SMS
- Slack integration
- E-mail alerts
Basic single-channel integration
- Slack & MS Teams-based native incident management
- Basic single-channel integration
- /incident command
- AI post-mortems
- Manage on-call schedules
- Channel per incident
- Shareable dashboards
- Quick status page updates
Additional public status page
- status page
- 1 additional public page
- Additional public status page
- Custom sub-domain
- Private status pages
- Embeddable system status
- White-labeling
- Password authentication
- IP allowlisting
- Single Sign-On
Additional 50 monitors
- monitors
- 50 additional monitors
- Uptime monitoring add-on
- Unlimited phone call alerts
- Up to 30 seconds check frequency
- Screenshots of errors
- Unlimited SMS
- Multi-location & geo-specific checks
- Push notifications
- Slack integration
Additional 10 heartbeats
- heartbeats
- 10 additional heartbeats
- Cron job monitoring add-on
- Unlimited phone call alerts
- Up to 1 second check resolution
- Unlimited SMS
- Configurable grace period
- Push notifications
- Slack integration
- Status pages
Basic single-channel integration
- Slack & Teams workflows
- Native incident management
- Basic single-channel integration
Pricing extracted from Better Stack's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
