Better Stack

Better Stack (formerly Better Uptime) combines uptime monitoring, on-call incident management and log/infrastructure observability, with a free tier and usage-based paid plans.

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CategoryMonitoring & Observability
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PricingFreemium
APIAvailable
Overview

What is Better Stack?

Better Stack started as Better Uptime, an uptime-monitoring and status-page tool, then expanded into on-call incident management and log/infrastructure observability under the renamed Better Stack brand. It offers a free tier alongside usage-based paid plans across its monitoring and logging products.

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Sources checked 27 September 2026: official website, documentation, pricing.

Why teams use it

Key capabilities

  • Uptime monitoring: synthetic checks and public status pages.
  • Incident management: on-call scheduling and alert routing.
  • Log observability: centralized log search and infrastructure monitoring.
Core areas

Uptime monitoring, on-call incident management, and log/infrastructure observability.

Positioning

Better Stack fits small-to-mid engineering teams that want uptime monitoring, incident on-call routing and log observability in one product and one bill, instead of combining separate tools like Pingdom, PagerDuty and a log platform.

Why it matters

Consolidating uptime checks, on-call and logs into one platform can simplify billing and tooling for smaller teams, though larger organizations should still confirm log volume pricing scales acceptably at their scale.

Deployment & technical details

Technical details

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Founded
2020
Headquarters
Prague, Czech Republic
Pricing model
Freemium
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