Better Stack is a combined uptime monitoring, incident management, and status page platform for availability tracking, on-call workflows, and status communication. Founded in 2021, it is aimed at teams that want all three in a single tool. It offers a generous free plan with tiered paid plans above it, and supports synthetic and multi-step checks down to sub-minute (around 30-second) intervals. The platform provides hosted status pages and is a closed-source SaaS holding SOC2 compliance, serving both startups and enterprises.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2021
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Log management
- Free tier
- Yes: Free tier with monthly ingest allowance and short retention.
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Live tail / search
- Yes
- Alerting
- Yes
- Retention tiers
- Yes
Uptime / status
- Free tier
- Yes: Generous free plan; sub-minute checks on paid.
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Status pages
- Yes
- Synthetic monitoring
- Yes
- Min check interval (s)
- 30