Better Stack 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

Better Stack

4.8

(37)

Pricing

Starting at $29.00 per month

About Better Stack

Better Stack is a unified observability tool that helps you ship higher-quality software faster. Monitor everything from websites to servers. Schedule on-call rotations, get actionable alerts, and resolve incidents faster than ever. Visualize your entire stack, aggregate all your logs into structured data, and query everything like a single database with SQL. Made to fit into your workflow with over 100+ integrations.

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Better Stack Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $29.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Free plan

$0.00

flat rate, one time

Plan includes:

10 monitors & heartbeats
Slack & e-mail alerts
1 status page
3 GB logs retained for 3 days
2B metrics retained for 30 days

Pay as you go

$29.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

Unlimited team members for Telemetry
Unlimited phone call alerts, SMS, push notifications and webhooks with 30-second checks
Channel-based & Thread-based Slack and MS Teams workflows
Access to all integrations
On-call calendar with scheduling & escalations
Playwright-based transaction checks
Private & customizable status pages
1,000 status page subscribers
Reporting & analytics
Call routing

Enterprise

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

Unlimited storage & querying
Stress-free migration
Fast support, 24/7
Enterprise deployments
Custom Telemetry data residency
Service-Level Agreement
GDPR-compliant
SSO enforcement

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Better Stack Features

Popular features found in Incident Management
Alerts/Notifications
Audit Trail
Communications Management
Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)
Investigation Management
IT Incident Management
On Call Scheduling
Safety Incident Management
Status Tracking
Ticket Management
Workflow Management
More features of Better Stack
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Monitoring
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Escalation
Analytics
Anomaly Detection
API
Application-Level Analysis
Application Management
Archiving & Retention
Audit Management
Authentication
Automated Scheduling
Automatic Backup
Availability Testing
Bandwidth Monitoring
Charting
Chat/Messaging
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Management
Configurable Alerts
Configuration Management
Continuous Monitoring
Correlation Analysis
CPU Monitoring
Customizable Dashboard
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Dashboard
Dashboard Creation
Data Analysis Tools
Database Monitoring
Data Classification
Data Import/Export
Data Migration
Data Storage Management
Data Visualization
Diagnostic Tools
Disaster Recovery
Drag & Drop
Email Alerts
Event Logs
Event Tracking
Forms Management
For Websites
FTP Monitoring
HIPAA Compliant
Incident Management
Incident Reporting
Indexing
Issue Management
Issue Tracking
Log Analysis
Log Collection
Log Parsing
Log Rotation
Mail Server Monitoring
Maintenance Scheduling
Mobile Alerts
Monitoring
Multi-Channel Communication
Multi-Language
Multi-Location Monitoring
Multiple User Accounts
Network Monitoring
Password Management
PCI Compliance
Performance Management
Performance Metrics
Performance Monitoring
Prioritization
Real-time Alerts
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Reporting
Real-Time Updates
Remediation Management
Reminders
Remote Monitoring & Management
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
Scheduled Testing
Scheduling
Search/Filter
Secure Data Storage
Secure Login
Self Service Portal
Server Logs
Server Monitoring
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
Single Sign On
SSL Monitoring
SSL Security
Tagging
Task Management
Third-Party Integrations
Threshold Alerts
Transaction Monitoring
Trend Analysis
Uptime Reporting
User Management
Virtual Machine Monitoring
Visual Analytics
Web Traffic Reporting
Widgets

Better Stack Integrations

Redis Enterprise

Elastic Stack

Okta

Front

Terraform

New Relic

See all 33 integrations

Better Stack User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

89%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.9

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.7

David C.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2020

Great alternative to Uptime robot

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of deployment - sign in, add a URL and away you go. You can set the site to be monitored every 30 seconds if you wish which is a great feature for such a low priced tool.

Cons:

Its a fairly new company and there have been a couple of glitches, but nothing to stop me using it to its full potential - The error reporting has been 100% but i've had the odd site that didn't auto resolve the incident - I believe better uptime have now fixed that issue

Reasons for switching to Better Stack

Ease of use

Angelo M.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

For standard monitoring, it is among the best

Better Uptime is a system that complies with what it offers, even the free version, it is very powerful for basic systems, which are hosted on shared hosting. I have recommended it to colleagues who are just starting out in system administration, and it has been very helpful.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We like how easy it is to set it up. Once you have the url or ip of the service. The system will be able to start operating immediately. System administrators usually know how to configure it. It has a very intuitive user interface. The app makes things a lot easier. Sometimes we can't check the mail, so having a personalized notification on the smartphone doesn't help to identify what problems there are, without even seeing the phone. It is these small details that enhance these systems.

Cons:

I would like to be able to self host the system for internal service monitoring within VPN networks. But for this, there are other alternatives

Eva K.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Just brilliant

Super easy to use, set up was done in no time. It's actually quite a powerful tool, does everything you need. I especially enjoy the UX, which feels much cleaner and straight forward - much better than uptime robot in that case. Also the free status page comes quite handy - the design again very nicely done!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use, great uptime robot alternative, love the UX

Cons:

I would appreciate some more integrations, hopefully they will arrive soon.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2021

Best monitoring saas I've ever used

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

You can fully customize the monitoring test endpoint to call (maybe require a POST call? perhaps my not ok response is a 400 HTTP status?) and also create escalation policies to notify incidents. It's great that It can notify someone in charge of it based on a calendar and escalate it to all the team if the incident got no solution. The status page you can add is fully customizable as well, and you know how important it is to have a professional-looking status page. The best feature is you can receive a call on a phone number if an incident is occurring. Fantastic!

Cons:

The thing I don't like is that you can't have a dashboard with the current status of every monitor you set up on more than one team. It's great that you can have an oversight view of a team's monitors, but if you have more than one team, you have to switch them to have a global view of the situation. The mobile app works fine for notifications but doesn't have any other feature, and it just lets you go to the web app dashboard through the mobile browser.

Rod K.

Verified reviewer

Writing and Editing

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Best Server Management Software I've Used

Better Uptime is probably the best investment I've ever made for server management. You won't regret trying it out yourself so you can experience the reliability of their server downtime alerts.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I operate several websites and needed a tool that would alert me as quickly as possible when the server was down. Better Uptime does this job better than any other software I've used. It checks my websites every 30 seconds so I am always able to respond to issues very quickly.

Cons:

For what I need the software to do, there isn't one negative comment I can say about Better Uptime.

Anthony B.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed December 2020

A must have!

No issues, great software, would highly recommend. We switched from UptimeRobot to this.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It independently monitors your site for any downtime and lets you know if/when it happens. It lets uses know the status and history of how reliable your service are.

Cons:

There should be another tier for the costs for startups, very small businesses with less than 10 websites to check. The jump from free to paid is too much.

Reasons for choosing Better Stack

Because it was better!

Reasons for switching to Better Stack

We tested better uptime after uptime robot and found it was much better!

Anne H.

Verified reviewer

Publishing

Self-Employed

Used other for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

Excellent Service for Downtime Alerts

Outstanding. If my site goes down or I get hacked, I lose money. I need to have a reliable service that can do monitoring for me. With Better Uptime, the site is checked every 3 minutes. And before the holidays, they sent me this outstanding t-shirt. It read git revert 2020.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the simple interface. It doesn't overwhelm you with too many options but still provides lots of integrations and functionality. For example, creating an alert based on URL or with keyword is a snap. I'm on the free tier and am very pleased with their service updates and weekly emails.

Cons:

This is a nit, but the timezone shows as HDT. I don't see where I could change the timezone to one more appropriate. I prefer GMT or my local zone.

Reasons for switching to Better Stack

Pingdom changed their offering.

Victor Conde B.

Verified reviewer

Graphic Design

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2022

Worth every penny

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Every website that i manage i use this software to be the monitoring of it. I love this so much and i cant stress enough how good it is to work with.

Cons:

It is a little expensive for a software, but the value for me has skyrocketed.

Verified

Reviewer

Judiciary

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Exceeded expectations!

Its ease of configuration and reporting feature blew me away! They're wonderful. I feel comfortable setting up multiple pages, with an easy-to-use interface!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

In particular, I think it is one of the best tools for monitoring activities. Easy to use and I really like the variety of features and customization options.

Cons:

Particularly, so far I have nothing tangible to complain about

Verified

Reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2022

Confidence while you sleep