Better Stack

Better Stack is a modern observability and reliability platform that combines uptime monitoring, status pages, incident management, log management, and on-call alerting into a single, beautifully designed product. By consolidating multiple disparate reliability tools into one platform, Better Stack simplifies the operations stack for engineering teams and reduces the overhead of managing multiple monitoring services.

The uptime monitoring component of Better Stack checks the availability and performance of websites, APIs, TCP services, and ping targets from multiple geographic locations worldwide. Monitors run at configurable intervals and trigger alerts when services become unavailable, when response times exceed thresholds, or when SSL certificates are close to expiration. The distributed check infrastructure ensures that alerts are based on genuine outages rather than local network issues.

Status pages in Better Stack are beautifully designed public and private status pages that communicate service status to users, customers, and stakeholders. Status pages show the current status of all configured components, historical uptime percentages, and ongoing incident updates. Custom domains, company branding, and subscriber notifications are all supported. Status pages integrate with the monitoring system so that incidents are reflected automatically as components change status.

Incidents in Better Stack provide a structured workflow for detecting, acknowledging, communicating, and resolving service disruptions. Incidents can be triggered automatically from monitors or created manually. The incident timeline captures all updates, acknowledgments, and resolution actions with timestamps. Stakeholder notifications via email and SMS keep users informed throughout the incident. Post-mortems can be written and linked to resolved incidents.

On-call scheduling and escalation policies in Better Stack manage who is responsible for responding to alerts at any given time. Rotation schedules ensure that the alert load is distributed across the team, and escalation policies define what happens if the primary responder does not acknowledge an alert within a defined time window. Notifications are delivered through voice calls, SMS, push notifications, and integrations with Slack and Teams.

Logs in Better Stack is a log management service for collecting, searching, and analyzing structured and unstructured log data. The service accepts logs via HTTP, the OpenTelemetry collector, and popular logging libraries. The Live Tail feature shows logs streaming in real time, and the SQL-based query interface enables powerful log analysis and aggregation queries.

Better Stack integrates with GitHub, GitLab, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Datadog, and many other tools. The focus on beautiful design, combined with a comprehensive feature set at competitive pricing, has made Better Stack popular among startups and scale-ups looking for a modern replacement for traditional monitoring toolchains.