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Better Stack vs Keep
Better Stack provides uptime monitoring and status pages, not a dedicated alert workflow engine.
Better StackUptime monitoring, incidents, logs and status pages
KeepOpen source alerts management platformWhich to pick
Pick Better Stack if you want…
- All-in-one observability with AI assistance
- Uptime monitoring and incident pages
- The lower starting price: $25/month against $199/month
- Integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams or Linear (on Better Stack's list, not Keep's)
Pick Keep if you want…
- Unified alert management with AI-driven correlation
- Open-source code (keephq/keep on GitHub)
- Integrations with AppDynamics, Jira or PagerDuty (on Keep's list, not Better Stack's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Better Stack:Better Stack provides unified uptime monitoring, incident management, logs, metrics, traces and AI-native error tracking.
- Keep:Keep is an open-source platform to create, manage, query and automate alerts across many systems.
- Best for
- Better Stack:All-in-one observability with AI assistance
- Keep:Unified alert management with AI-driven correlation
- Who it’s for
- Better Stack:DevOps, SREs and engineering teams needing full-stack observability.
- Keep:SREs, operators, engineers and teams that need centralized alert management.
- Pricing
- Better Stack:Freemium
- Keep:Freemium
- Plans
- Better Stack:Free (personal projects) $0 · Responder $34 per month · AI SRE tokens $5 per million tokens · Slack & Teams incident $9 per responder license per m per month · Telemetry bundles – Nano $25 per month billed yearly
- Keep:Startup $0 / month · Growth $199 / month
- Open source
- Better Stack:—
- Keep:Yes, 12,375 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Better Stack:Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, GitHub, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
- Keep:AppDynamics, Datadog, Jira, PagerDuty, GitHub, CloudWatch, Grafana, GCP Monitoring
Better Stack features
- AI-native SRE. Claude-style AI analyzes logs, metrics, traces and suggests tickets, merges incidents and writes post-mortems.
- eBPF service map. Zero-code instrumentation creates a live service map for tracing and SLO tracking.
- Slack/Teams incident workflow. Resolve incidents directly in Slack or Microsoft Teams with templated automations.
- Unified telemetry bundles. Logs, traces and metrics are ingested together with OpenTelemetry support and SQL/PromQL query builder.
- Real-user monitoring. Session replay, auto-captured events and web-vitals with correlation to backend telemetry.
Keep features
- Bi-directional integrations. Connect to over 90 providers such as Datadog, Jira, PagerDuty and custom sources, keeping alerts in sync.
- Single pane of glass. Query, slice and analyze alerts with a common expression language and rule-based grouping.
- Workflow engine. Build YAML-based or UI workflows to enrich alerts, run Python scripts or update tickets.
- AI-driven AIOps (Enterprise). Correlate alerts using past incidents and a continuous feedback loop to reduce noise.
- Self-hosted or cloud deployment. Choose open-source self-hosting or a managed cloud service with optional enterprise features.
- RBAC & SSO (Enterprise). Control access with role-based permissions and SAML/SSO integration.
Better Stack vs Keep FAQ
Is Better Stack or Keep free?+
Better Stack has a free plan (Free (personal projects)); paid plans start at $25/month (Telemetry bundles – Nano). Keep has a free plan (Startup); paid plans start at $199/month (Growth).
Which is cheaper, Better Stack or Keep?+
Better Stack is cheaper to start with: Better Stack's Telemetry bundles – Nano plan ($25/month) against Keep's Growth plan ($199/month).
Is Better Stack or Keep open source?+
Keep is open source (keephq/keep on GitHub). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Better Stack.
Do Better Stack and Keep integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list GitHub, Grafana and Datadog. Better Stack also lists Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, Prometheus and 5 more; Keep also lists AppDynamics, Jira, PagerDuty, CloudWatch and 1 more.
On DevHunt
Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.