Better Stack

Overview

Better Stack combines uptime monitoring, status pages, incident on-call and a telemetry warehouse for logs, metrics and traces. It is aimed at smaller engineering teams that would otherwise assemble separate uptime, paging and logging tools.

Its free plan for personal projects includes 10 monitors and heartbeats, one status page, 30 GB of metrics and 3 GB each of logs, traces and web events retained for three days^[13]. Paid usage is metered by region: log ingestion costs US$0.10 per GB in Europe, US$0.15 in the United States and US$0.35 in Singapore, with monthly retention of US$0.05, US$0.08 and US$0.18 per GB respectively^[13]. On-call responders cost US$29 per month on yearly billing or US$34 monthly, while team members with telemetry-only access are free^[13]. The regional price differences matter for data-residency decisions. Better Stack is lighter than enterprise suites in APM depth and automatic topology discovery, so it suits web applications and SaaS start-ups more than large hybrid estates.

What Better Stack does

• Uptime monitors and heartbeats
• Status pages
• On-call scheduling and incident management
• Logs, metrics and traces warehouse
• Region-specific storage in Europe, US and Singapore

Better Stack pricing

Free: 10 monitors/heartbeats, 1 status page, 30 GB metrics, 3 GB logs/traces/web events (3-day retention). Responder licence US$29/month (yearly) or US$34 (monthly); telemetry-only team members free. Logs ingest US$0.10/GB (EU), US$0.15 (US), US$0.35 (Singapore). Extra 50 uptime monitors US$21–25/month.

Better Stack strengths and limitations

Appears in

• Best Observability Tools in 2026 #12

Better Stack alternatives and competitors

Alternatives to Better Stack: companies ranked in the same lists.

• Datadog
• Dynatrace
• GGrafana
• New Relic
• Splunk Enterprise Security
• Elastic Security
• HHoneycomb
• Chronosphere (Palo Alto Networks)
• Coralogix
• Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM
• SigNoz