Monitoring Tools

Better Stack

Monitoring and incident response for personal projects and infrastructure teams.

Overview

Better Stack brings logs, metrics, traces, errors, uptime checks, and incidents into one monitoring service. It helps you spot problems, investigate their cause, and coordinate a response. Better Stack can collect telemetry with eBPF and OpenTelemetry, inspect service health, and run tests in a real browser. Automated root cause analysis assists your investigation, while a human stays in charge.

Updated Nov 11, 2026

10 things

What Better Stack has

Apps

iOS
Android

For developers

Programmatic access to the product's data and features for developers.
Automatic messages the product sends to another app when something happens. One of 8 Monitoring tools with webhooks.
A Model Context Protocol server that lets AI tools connect to and act on your data. One of 6 Monitoring tools with MCP server.

Support

Get help from the support team by writing to them via email. One of 8 Monitoring tools with email support.
Help moving your existing content and data into the tool from another platform.
Guided setup and training to help new users get started with the tool.

Pricing

Get your money back just by asking within a set time, no reason needed.
A product demonstration available to prospective customers who want to evaluate the tool. One of 5 Monitoring tools with public demo.

18 features

Key Features

AI SRE interface
Get an AI SRE Claude Code-like UI with the knowledge of your infrastructure.
Incident merging
10 incidents created at the same time? Acknowledge them with a single tap and keep your phone from ringing while fixing the issue.
Telemetry collection
Gather traces, logs, and metrics using eBPF and OpenTelemetry. Remotely monitor collector’s throughput and adjust sampling, compression, and batching as needed.
Trace investigation
Investigate slow requests visually with drag & drop to find root cause.
Service health
Understand the overall health of a service in a single dashboard.
Incident workflow
Get the right team members involved with powerful templated workflows directly in Slack and decrease your MTTR.
Timeout diagnostics
Understand connection timeouts and request timeouts with edge-based traceroute and MTR outputs.
Transaction checks
Run tests with a real Chrome browser instance with a JavaScript runtime.
Anomaly alerts
Trigger alerts in real-time based on anomalies in logs and metrics. No need to configure exact alert thresholds. Get alerts via Slack, e-mail, phone, SMS, and more.
Collector connection
Connect metrics in minutes using existing open-source collectors.
AI SRE
Get an AI SRE Claude Code-like UI with the knowledge of your infrastructure.
AI ticket suggestions
Downtime? Create Linear tickets to fix the root cause using AI-based suggestions with a single tap.
AI post-mortems
Get an automated post-mortem based on the incident timeline and Slack.
Service map
See network flows, auto-instrument databases, and track SLOs.
Visual investigation
Investigate slow requests visually with drag & drop to find root cause.
Service health metrics
Understand the overall health of a service in a single dashboard.
Slack incident workflows
Get the right team members involved with powerful templated workflows directly in Slack and decrease your MTTR.
Raw log queries
Run ad-hoc queries on raw logs at scale with our built-in query time sampling. Query with SQL, PromQL, Drag & drop or a simple log filtering.

Pros and cons

Pros

The free plan covers personal projects.
Anomaly alerts do not need exact thresholds and can arrive by email, phone, SMS, or Slack.
You can acknowledge 10 simultaneous incidents with one tap.
The mobile apps run on iOS and Android.

As of November 2026

Pricing

Free for personal projects
Free
Enterprise
Custom
on request

Developer features

Error screenshots
We record the API errors and take a screenshot of your app being down.
SQL queries
Query your logs, spans or metrics with SQL over HTTP API or our MCP server.
Error tracking
Track errors from 100+ platforms with the industry-standard Sentry SDKs.

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5 questions

FAQs

What does Better Stack do?

Better Stack collects logs, metrics, and traces, tracks errors, shows service health, and runs browser tests. It also supports incident response and network diagnostics.

Does Better Stack have a money-back guarantee?

Yes. Better Stack offers a 60-day money-back guarantee when you instrument your clusters.

Does Better Stack have an API?

Yes. You can query logs, spans, and metrics with SQL through Better Stack's HTTP API.

Which tools integrate with Better Stack?

Better Stack integrates with tools including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, GitHub, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Prometheus, and Terraform.

Can Better Stack send webhooks?

Yes. Outgoing webhooks send HTTP requests for incidents, monitor changes, and on-call changes.

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10 things

What Better Stack has

Apps

iOS
Android

For developers

Programmatic access to the product's data and features for developers.
Automatic messages the product sends to another app when something happens. One of 8 Monitoring tools with webhooks.
A Model Context Protocol server that lets AI tools connect to and act on your data. One of 6 Monitoring tools with MCP server.

Support

Get help from the support team by writing to them via email. One of 8 Monitoring tools with email support.
Help moving your existing content and data into the tool from another platform.
Guided setup and training to help new users get started with the tool.

Pricing

Get your money back just by asking within a set time, no reason needed.
A product demonstration available to prospective customers who want to evaluate the tool. One of 5 Monitoring tools with public demo.

18 features

Key Features

AI SRE interface
Get an AI SRE Claude Code-like UI with the knowledge of your infrastructure.
Incident merging
10 incidents created at the same time? Acknowledge them with a single tap and keep your phone from ringing while fixing the issue.
Telemetry collection
Gather traces, logs, and metrics using eBPF and OpenTelemetry. Remotely monitor collector’s throughput and adjust sampling, compression, and batching as needed.
Trace investigation
Investigate slow requests visually with drag & drop to find root cause.
Service health
Understand the overall health of a service in a single dashboard.
Incident workflow
Get the right team members involved with powerful templated workflows directly in Slack and decrease your MTTR.
Timeout diagnostics
Understand connection timeouts and request timeouts with edge-based traceroute and MTR outputs.
Transaction checks
Run tests with a real Chrome browser instance with a JavaScript runtime.
Anomaly alerts
Trigger alerts in real-time based on anomalies in logs and metrics. No need to configure exact alert thresholds. Get alerts via Slack, e-mail, phone, SMS, and more.
Collector connection
Connect metrics in minutes using existing open-source collectors.
AI SRE
Get an AI SRE Claude Code-like UI with the knowledge of your infrastructure.
AI ticket suggestions
Downtime? Create Linear tickets to fix the root cause using AI-based suggestions with a single tap.
AI post-mortems
Get an automated post-mortem based on the incident timeline and Slack.
Service map
See network flows, auto-instrument databases, and track SLOs.
Visual investigation
Investigate slow requests visually with drag & drop to find root cause.
Service health metrics
Understand the overall health of a service in a single dashboard.
Slack incident workflows
Get the right team members involved with powerful templated workflows directly in Slack and decrease your MTTR.
Raw log queries
Run ad-hoc queries on raw logs at scale with our built-in query time sampling. Query with SQL, PromQL, Drag & drop or a simple log filtering.

Pros and cons

Pros

The free plan covers personal projects.
Anomaly alerts do not need exact thresholds and can arrive by email, phone, SMS, or Slack.
You can acknowledge 10 simultaneous incidents with one tap.
The mobile apps run on iOS and Android.

As of November 2026

Pricing

Free for personal projects
Free
Enterprise
Custom
on request

Developer features

Error screenshots
We record the API errors and take a screenshot of your app being down.
SQL queries
Query your logs, spans or metrics with SQL over HTTP API or our MCP server.
Error tracking
Track errors from 100+ platforms with the industry-standard Sentry SDKs.

You?

Be the first to rate Better Stack

Your review helps others make better decisions. No account needed. Takes about 10 seconds.

Featured Video

See Better Stack at work before you try it.

Watch on YouTube

5 questions

FAQs

What does Better Stack do?

Better Stack collects logs, metrics, and traces, tracks errors, shows service health, and runs browser tests. It also supports incident response and network diagnostics.

Does Better Stack have a money-back guarantee?

Yes. Better Stack offers a 60-day money-back guarantee when you instrument your clusters.

Does Better Stack have an API?

Yes. You can query logs, spans, and metrics with SQL through Better Stack's HTTP API.

Which tools integrate with Better Stack?

Better Stack integrates with tools including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, GitHub, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Prometheus, and Terraform.

Can Better Stack send webhooks?

Yes. Outgoing webhooks send HTTP requests for incidents, monitor changes, and on-call changes.

Better Stack

Overview

What Better Stack has

Apps

For developers

Support

Pricing

Key Features

AI SRE interface

Incident merging

Telemetry collection

Trace investigation

Service health

Incident workflow

Timeout diagnostics

Transaction checks

Anomaly alerts

Collector connection

AI SRE

AI ticket suggestions

AI post-mortems

Service map

Visual investigation

Service health metrics

Slack incident workflows

Raw log queries

Pros and cons

Pros

Pricing

Better Stack pricing plans

Free for personal projects

Enterprise

Developer features

Error screenshots

SQL queries

Error tracking

Be the first to rate Better Stack

Featured Video

FAQs

What does Better Stack do?

Does Better Stack have a money-back guarantee?

Does Better Stack have an API?

Which tools integrate with Better Stack?

Can Better Stack send webhooks?

What Better Stack has

Apps

For developers

Support

Pricing

Key Features

AI SRE interface

Incident merging

Telemetry collection

Trace investigation

Service health

Incident workflow

Timeout diagnostics

Transaction checks

Anomaly alerts

Collector connection

AI SRE

AI ticket suggestions

AI post-mortems

Service map

Visual investigation

Service health metrics

Slack incident workflows

Raw log queries

Pros and cons

Pros

Pricing

Better Stack pricing plans

Free for personal projects

Enterprise

Developer features

Error screenshots

SQL queries

Error tracking

Be the first to rate Better Stack

Featured Video