BetterStack
Uptime monitoring, log management, and incident management platform with a clean, modern interface.
Monitoring
Free tier
Overview
BetterStack brings together uptime monitoring, log management, incident management, and status pages in a single platform with a modern, well-designed interface. It checks your endpoints from multiple global locations and alerts you via email, Slack, PagerDuty, or phone calls.
The free tier includes 10 monitors with 3-minute checks and basic logging. The Team plan at $24/month adds 1-minute checks, more monitors, log retention, and incident management features.
Strengths
- Clean, modern interface that is a joy to use
- Combines uptime, logs, and status pages in one tool
- Simpler pricing than enterprise monitoring platforms
- Beautiful public status pages included
Weaknesses
- Less comprehensive than full observability platforms like Datadog
- No APM or application performance tracing
- Relatively young platform with smaller community
- Log querying is less powerful than dedicated log tools
Pricing estimate
$240
/month
$2880/year
Free for 10 monitors with 3-minute checks
Quick info
- Category
- Monitoring
- Starting price
- $24/mo
- Free tier
- Yes — Free for 10 monitors with 3-minute checks
- Open source
- No
- Best for
- Small teams
- Founded
- 2021
Last updated 2026-04-12
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