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Better Stack vs Uptime Kuma
Better Stack offers integrated status pages and incident management alongside uptime monitoring.
Better StackUptime monitoring, incidents, logs and status pages
Uptime KumaSelf-hosted uptime monitoring toolWhich to pick
Pick Better Stack if you want…
- All-in-one observability with AI assistance
- Uptime monitoring with status pages
Pick Uptime Kuma if you want…
- Self-hosted uptime monitoring
- A free, open-source tool
Side by side
- What it is
- Better Stack:Better Stack provides unified uptime monitoring, incident management, logs, metrics, traces and AI-native error tracking.
- Uptime Kuma:Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted tool for monitoring website and service uptime.
- Best for
- Better Stack:All-in-one observability with AI assistance
- Uptime Kuma:Self-hosted uptime monitoring
- Who it’s for
- Better Stack:DevOps, SREs and engineering teams needing full-stack observability.
- Uptime Kuma:Developers and ops teams who want to run their own uptime monitoring.
- Pricing
- Better Stack:Freemium
- Uptime Kuma:Free
- 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
- Uptime Kuma:—
- Open source
- Better Stack:—
- Uptime Kuma:Yes, 92,195 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Better Stack:Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, GitHub, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
- Uptime Kuma:—
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.
Uptime Kuma features
- Self-hosted. Runs on your own infrastructure without relying on third-party services.
- Docker deployment. Start with a single Docker command that sets up the container and data volume.
- Live demo. Provides an online demo to explore the interface before installing.
- Documentation. Includes docs for setup and usage linked from the main page.
Better Stack vs Uptime Kuma FAQ
Is Better Stack or Uptime Kuma free?+
Better Stack has a free plan (Free (personal projects)); paid plans start at $25/month (Telemetry bundles – Nano). Uptime Kuma is free.
Which is cheaper, Better Stack or Uptime Kuma?+
Uptime Kuma is free, so it costs less. Better Stack starts at $25/month (Telemetry bundles – Nano).
Is Better Stack or Uptime Kuma open source?+
Uptime Kuma is open source (louislam/uptime-kuma on GitHub, MIT license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Better Stack.
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