Better Stack
Uptime monitoring, incidents, logs and status pages
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Better Stack provides unified uptime monitoring, incident management, logs, metrics, traces and AI-native error tracking.
- for
- DevOps, SREs and engineering teams needing full-stack observability.
- pricing
- freemium · free trial
Key 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.
Use cases
- Detect and auto-resolve a production outage via Slack-based incident merging and AI root-cause analysis.
- Run Playwright-based transaction checks to monitor critical user journeys with real-browser screenshots.
- Query raw logs at scale using SQL or drag-and-drop dashboards to investigate security incidents.
Better Stack pricing
- Free (personal projects)$010 monitors & heartbeats · 1 status page · 100k exceptions/month · 3 GB logs retained 3 days
- Responder$34/monthUnlimited phone call & SMS alerts · Uptime monitoring with incident management · Unlimited team members · Free telemetry access
- AI SRE tokens$5 per million tokensAgentic root-cause analysis · Create AI dashboards · Integrate with Datadog, Grafana, GitHub, Notion, Linear
- Slack & Teams incident$9 per responder license per m/month/incident command · AI post-mortems · On-call scheduling · Advanced incident workflows
- Telemetry bundles – Nano$25/month billed yearly40 GB logs, traces, metrics · 30 GB web events · 30 day logs retention
Better Stack vs alternatives
 Better Stack |  Datadog |  Grafana |  New Relic |  Sentry.io | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | All-in-one observability with AI assistance | Traditional cloud monitoring | Dashboard-centric observability | Full-stack observability | Error tracking with broader observability |
| Pricing | Freemium | Subscription | Subscription | Subscription | Subscription |
| DevHunt upvotes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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- Better Stack vs Datadog: Datadog is a separate SaaS with higher pricing; Better Stack offers a single-price bundle and AI-native features.
- Better Stack vs Grafana: Grafana provides open-source dashboards; Better Stack adds built-in incident management and AI SRE.
- Better Stack vs New Relic: New Relic focuses on APM and cloud monitoring; Better Stack combines monitoring, logs, traces and AI assistance in one platform.
- Better Stack vs Sentry.io: Sentry specializes in error tracking; Better Stack includes error tracking plus logs, traces, uptime monitoring and AI features at lower cost.
Better Stack FAQ
What data can I ingest with Better Stack?+
You can ingest logs, traces and metrics via OpenTelemetry, eBPF agents or the MCP server, plus web events and session replays.
Is there a free tier?+
Yes, a free plan for personal projects includes basic monitoring, 10 monitors, 1 status page and limited log/trace retention.
How does the AI SRE work?+
The AI SRE (Claude-style) accesses your telemetry, merges incidents, explains errors, suggests Linear tickets and can generate post-mortems.
Can I store logs in my own S3 bucket?+
Yes, Better Stack offers an option to host logs (and other telemetry) in your own S3 bucket with no re-hydration needed.
Summarized by DevHunt from betterstack.com · Oct 1, 2026. Details may change; check the official site.
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