# Better Stack vs Last9

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Better Stack

| Attribute | Better Stack | Last9 |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 66 (72% (medium)) | 48.4 (72% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Better Stack provides observability tools including a collector that uses eBPF technology to instrument Kubernetes and Docker environments, gathering logs, metrics, and OpenTelemetry traces without requiring code modifications. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://betterstack.com","question":"What is Better Stack?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Better Stack offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $25 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"Is Better Stack free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Better Stack supports the web, iOS and Android. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does Better Stack support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Better Stack, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"Can Better Stack be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 23 integrations for Better Stack, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, GitHub, Grafana, Datadog, Notion and Sentry, plus 15 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://betterstack.com","question":"What does Better Stack integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Better Stack. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Better Stack not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://betterstack.com/security","question":"What security certifications does Better Stack have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Better Stack is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"Where is Better Stack available?","confidence":0.5}]` | `[{"answer":"A unified observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and Prometheus that manages logs, metrics, and traces with high-cardinality storage. It includes AI-assisted incident investigation, real-time alerting, and user monitoring capabilities. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What is Last9?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Is Last9 free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 supports the web, iOS, Android and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What platforms does Last9 support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Last9, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Can Last9 be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 54 integrations for Last9, including Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Zenduty and Google Chat, plus 46 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What does Last9 integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Last9. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Last9 not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"What security certifications does Last9 have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Last9 is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the United Kingdom. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://last9.io","question":"Where is Last9 available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | Cloud-native observability platform that consolidates log management, metrics, distributed tracing, infrastructure monitoring, and incident management with built-in on-call scheduling and AI-powered incident investigation capabilities. | Last9 enables teams to monitor applications and infrastructure through metrics, logs, and traces collected via OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. It offers service discovery, real-user performance monitoring, threshold-based and anomaly detection alerting, service-level objective tracking, and dashboarding for visibility across cloud infrastructure and applications. |
| features.capabilities | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"cloud","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"cloud","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` |
| integrations.count | 15 | 100 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"Notion"},{"name":"Sentry"},{"name":"Zapier"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Zabbix"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"New Relic"},{"name":"Mixpanel"},{"name":"Intercom"},{"name":"Front"},{"name":"Drift"},{"name":"Terraform Provider"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Helm","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"NLog","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Calendar","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Outlook Calendar","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Webhooks","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"REST API","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Claude","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Codex","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Cursor","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"Zenduty"},{"name":"Google Chat"},{"name":"Flock"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"ArgoCD"},{"name":"Buildkite"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"ECS"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"DynamoDB"},{"name":"RDS"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"Neo4j"},{"name":"Flask"},{"name":"Django"},{"name":"FastAPI"},{"name":"Express.js"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"Spring Boot"},{"name":"Laravel"},{"name":"Go"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"CloudWatch"},{"name":"Loki"},{"name":"Fluent Bit"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"iOS"},{"name":"Android"},{"name":"Flutter"},{"name":"React Native"},{"name":"Grafana Loki","category":"logs"},{"name":"Grafana Tempo","category":"tracing"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch","category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS Lambda","category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS ECS","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Azure Monitor","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Google Cloud","category":"cloud"},{"name":"Datadog Agent","category":"observability"},{"name":"Elastic Logstash","category":"logs"},{"name":"n8n","category":"workflow"},{"name":"Spinnaker","category":"ci_cd"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot","category":"ai"},{"name":"Claude Cowork","category":"ai"},{"name":"Grafana","native":true,"category":"observability","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"iac","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Claude","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Argo Rollouts","native":true,"category":"deployment","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS CloudFront","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Fastly","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Akamai","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Cloud Functions","native":true,"category":"compute","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Apache","native":true,"category":"web_server","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Nginx","native":true,"category":"web_server","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"MariaDB","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Cloudflare","native":true,"category":"cdn","direction":"inbound"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","features":["10 monitors & heartbeats","1 status page","Slack & e-mail alerts","100,000 exceptions per month","3 GB logs retained for 3 days","30 GB metrics"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Personal projects","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"metrics":"30 GB","monitors":"10","status_pages":"1","logs_retention":"3 GB for 3 days","exceptions_per_month":"100,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Standard with Single Responder","summary":"$34/month or $29/month billed annually","features":["Single responder with unlimited phone call alerts","Incident management","On-call scheduling","Monitoring","Status pages"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":34,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Incident management with single responder","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Logs","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.08,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Logs (Annual)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.05,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Metrics","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.75,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Metrics (Annual)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.5,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"External Monitoring","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"External Monitoring (Annual)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":21,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Transaction Monitoring (Playwright)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Transaction Monitoring (Playwright, Annual)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":17,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Status Page","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":15,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Status Page (Annual)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":12,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Call Routing","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":250,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Call Routing (Annual)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":208,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Per Responder License","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"responder","amount":9,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Reporting & Analytics","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"member","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Reporting & Analytics (Annual)","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"member","amount":4,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"User Management","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"user","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier for personal projects. Paid plans start at $29/month billed annually with per-component metered pricing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-05T11:11:16.207Z","startingPrice":{"amount":34,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"free","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://last9.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T23:06:22.032Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | free |
| pricing.price_level | mid | free |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":34,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO/IEC 27001","status":"active","auditor":"DIN"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Better Stack | Last9 |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Signals** |  |  |
| Metrics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Log management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Distributed tracing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Application performance monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-user monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Response** |  |  |
| Alerting | ✓ | ✓ |
| On-call / incident management | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Insight** |  |  |
| Dashboards | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry-native | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud only |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:10:18.211Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*