Better Stack
Started as uptime monitoring and grew into a full observability platform (incidents, status pages, on-call, logs). A good one-stop shop if you don't want five separate monitoring bills.
What is Better Stack?
Better Stack started as an uptime monitoring tool and has grown into a broader observability platform covering incident management, status pages, on-call scheduling, and log management. The pitch is consolidation: one platform and one bill instead of stitching together separate tools for uptime, logs, and incidents.
Key features
- Uptime monitoring with configurable check intervals and multi-region checks
- Incident management and on-call scheduling built in, not bolted on from a separate acquisition
- Hosted status pages that update automatically off incident state
- Log management with search and alerting, competing directly with dedicated log platforms
- Alerting integrates across the whole stack (uptime, logs, incidents) instead of being siloed per feature
Who it's for
Makes sense if you'd rather run one observability bill and dashboard than separate uptime, logging, and incident tools from different vendors. A team with very specific, deep needs in any one of those areas, like Axiom-level log volume, might still be better served by a specialist tool.
Pricing
Free tier for basic monitoring, with paid plans scaling by monitors, log volume, and team features. Check the site for current limits.