Better Stack
Observability and incident response platform combining uptime monitoring, logs, metrics,tr
Better Stack is an observability and incident response platform that consolidates monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting into a single system. It addresses the complexity and cost of managing separate tools for understanding application health and responding to outages, offering a unified approach to telemetry data collection and incident management.
The platform includes modules for uptime monitoring, log management, infrastructure metrics, OpenTelemetry-native tracing, error tracking, real user monitoring with session replay, status pages, and on-call scheduling with incident management. Data is collected via OpenTelemetry and eBPF, and can be queried using SQL, PromQL, or a drag-and-drop builder. An AI assistant provides root cause analysis and postmortem generation, and integrations are available with services like Slack, PagerDuty, Jira, and major cloud providers.
Better Stack is designed for engineering teams seeking a cost-effective alternative to legacy observability vendors. It offers a free plan for personal projects with limited logs, traces, and monitors, and paid plans that are seat-based for incident management features. Telemetry bundles for logs, traces, and metrics are available on a usage basis, with a 60-day money-back guarantee.
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