About Better Stack
Better Stack is a hosted observability platform that brings logs, uptime checks, incident management and error tracking into one tool. It targets teams that want these functions together rather than spread across several products.
What it does
Better Stack collects logs, metrics and traces, watches your websites and services for downtime, and tracks application errors. When something breaks, it helps coordinate the response with on-call schedules, alerts and a status page for your users. It also offers an AI assistant for investigating incidents and an MCP server that lets connected AI tools read your telemetry.
Key features
- Log management for searching application and system logs
- Uptime checks with a public status page
- Incident management with on-call alerts
- OpenTelemetry-based tracing for services
- Error tracking for application exceptions
Who it's for
Better Stack suits startups and small engineering teams that want one place for monitoring and incident response. It can also work for larger DevOps groups that want to reduce the number of separate tools they run.
Pricing and good to know
The site invites you to start for free, and paid plans are listed on the pricing page. The site also describes its pricing as predictable, so check the current plan details before you commit. Like other hosted services, your data is sent to Better Stack's cloud, so review where data is stored if that matters to your team.
Highlights
- Log management for searching application logs
- Uptime checks with a public status page
- Incident management with on-call alerts
- OpenTelemetry-based tracing for services
- Error tracking for application exceptions
