Better Stack

What it is for

Better Stack is a hosted uptime-plus-telemetry desk: you open a monitor, and the personal Free tier is $0/month (10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions, 5,000 session replays, 3 GB logs / traces for 3 days, 30 GB metrics). Use it when the job is monitors you start at $0, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official Better Stack monitor detail (time.com/status, response-time chart, Monitors / Heartbeats / Incidents / Status pages) from the Uptime start still — not a pricing card. The monitor itself is ops of Uptime monitors.

Key features

• Uptime monitors — an HTTP / TCP / keyword check you keep green (monitor still; pricing Uptime monitoring). One probe. Free is 10. Extra packs are $25/month for 50 ($21 yearly). Heartbeats and Playwright minutes are ops of this.
• Logs — a queryable ingest you keep next to the incident (pricing Logs & Traces). A stream, not a probe. Free is 3 GB / 3 days. Europe ingest $0.10/GB; Nano EU bundle $30/month ($25 yearly) for 40 GB.
• Incidents / on-call — a responder seat that pages and runs Slack/Teams workflows (pricing Users). A person, not a monitor. Team-member (telemetry only) is $0. Responder is $34/month ($29 yearly).
• Status pages — a public status.yourdomain.com (pricing Status pages). A page, not a monitor. 1 included; extra public page $15/month ($12 yearly).
• Error tracking — Sentry-compatible exceptions (pricing Error tracking). A crash, not a log line. Free 100,000/month; extra Europe $0.000050 each.

Session replay, traces, and metrics sit on the same telemetry bill as Logs — they are not a sixth desk. AI SRE token rates print on the page; they are options of Incidents.

Who it's for

Best fit: on-call teams who will stay on Free at $0 (10 monitors, 1 status page, 3 GB logs) while they open a first monitor, then buy a Responder seat at $29/month billed yearly ($34 monthly) when someone has to be paged.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from betterstack.com/pricing. The page prints monthly and yearly columns. Figures below are the printed $0 / $34 / $29 / $30 / $25 tiles we fetched.

• Free (personal projects) — $0/month. 10 monitors & heartbeats. 1 status page. Slack & email alerts. 100,000 exceptions/month. 5,000 session replays. 3 GB logs and traces retained 3 days. 30 GB metrics. 3 GB web events / 3 days.
• Team member (telemetry access) — $0/month (monthly or yearly).
• Responder (incidents + telemetry) — $34/month, or $29/month yearly.
• Uptime overage — additional 50 monitors $25/month ($21 yearly). Additional 10 heartbeats $20/month ($17 yearly). Playwright $1 / 100 minutes.
• Telemetry Nano (Europe) — $30/month, or $25/month yearly (40 GB traces / logs / metrics; 30-day log retention). US Nano $45 / $38; Singapore $105 / $88.
• Status page add-ons — extra public page $15/month ($12 yearly). White-label / IP allowlist / SSO $250/month ($208 yearly).
• Enterprise-shaped rows — custom cluster, generic SAML, and some SSO IdPs. Confirm the live quote — do not invent an Enterprise dollar.

Confirm checkout; taxes follow your location. 60-day money-back is printed on the page.

Limitations / costs

• Free is 10 monitors and 3 GB / 3 days. A production log firehose is a Nano bill, not a second card.
• Someone has to be paged? That is a Responder seat at $34 / $29. Telemetry-only teammates stay $0.
• Playwright is $1 / 100 minutes. A chatty browser check is a meter, not a sixth desk.
• An uptime-plus-telemetry desk, not a product-analytics OS. For product analytics with a $0 tier see PostHog. For a dedicated check runner see Checkly.

Alternatives

• Checkly — Playwright/API checks when you want a check-as-code runner, not Better Stack’s incident seat.
• OneUptime — OSS status + on-call when you will self-host the monitor desk.
• OpenStatus — a smaller uptime desk when you do not want Better Stack’s log ingest.

Official tutorial

Official Better Stack channel video: What is Better Stack? (oEmbed author: Better Stack). First-party product intro; the docs monitor still is the cover.

Written path: betterstack.com/pricing plus the monitor still.

Website

https://www.betterstack.com

Repository

https://github.com/BetterStackHQ

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official Better Stack monitor detail from the docs still. Dollars checked on betterstack.com/pricing (Free $0; Responder $34 monthly / $29 yearly; Nano EU $30 / $25; +50 monitors $25 / $21). Tutorial oEmbed author: Better Stack.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.