Better Stack

Better Stack is an observability and incident response platform that combines uptime monitoring, log management, incident management, and status pages in one product. Its uptime checks run from global edge locations using HTTP, keyword, and Playwright-based browser checks, automatically capturing screenshots and network diagnostics when downtime occurs. Logs are stored as structured JSON and can be queried with SQL or PromQL, with an option to store data in a customer's own S3 bucket.

The platform also provides on-call scheduling, phone and SMS alerting included with every responder license, and an AI SRE chat assistant for incident triage. Better Stack markets itself as a lower-cost alternative to larger observability suites like Datadog, targeting startups and growing engineering teams that want monitoring, logging, and incident response without a large per-seat bill.