Better Stack combines uptime monitoring, incident management and status pages in a beautifully designed, developer-friendly platform.
Better Stack (from the Uptime team) monitors websites and APIs from dozens of locations, alerts your team with rich incident context and publishes branded status pages. Its heartbeat monitoring covers cron jobs and background workers, and AI features summarize incidents and correlate related alerts. On-call scheduling, escalations and integrations with Slack, PagerDuty and more cover the response side. It is widely loved for offering enterprise-grade monitoring with consumer-grade simplicity.
Better Stack is freemium with a capable free tier; paid plans add more monitors, faster checks and team features.
Startups and engineering teams that want reliable monitoring and incident response without heavyweight enterprise tooling.
Startups monitor production APIs and marketing sites with Slack alerts when anything breaks, and SaaS companies publish status pages that keep customers informed during incidents.
Create monitors for your critical endpoints, connect Slack or your alerting channel and publish a simple status page in the first hour.
Yes — a generous free tier covers small-scale monitoring; growth brings paid plans.
Yes — APIs manage monitors and pull incident data into dashboards.
Versus Pingdom or StatusCake, Better Stack bundles incident management and status pages with better design; versus Datadog it is far simpler and cheaper.
Check frequency depends on plan, ranging from one-minute intervals on paid tiers to longer intervals on the free tier.
Yes — heartbeat monitors watch cron jobs and workers by expecting periodic pings and alerting when they go silent.
Background jobs ping Better Stack periodically; if a scheduled task goes silent, alerts fire before customers notice the missing output.
Branded pages publish uptime and incident updates to customers, built from the same monitor data your team sees internally.
Higher tiers support custom branding and domains so public status pages match your product’s visual identity.
Mobile-friendly alerting ensures on-call engineers can acknowledge and manage incidents away from desks.
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