Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Better Stack?
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.
Better Stack pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier for personal projects. Paid plans start at $29/month billed annually with per-component metered pricing.
Free
FreePersonal projects
- metrics
- 30 GB
- monitors
- 10
- status_pages
- 1
- logs_retention
- 3 GB for 3 days
- exceptions_per_month
- 100,000
- 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
Standard with Single Responder
Incident management with single responder
- Single responder with unlimited phone call alerts
- Incident management
- On-call scheduling
- Monitoring
- Status pages
Add-ons
- Logs$0.08 per GB
- Logs (Annual)$0.05 per GB
- Metrics$0.75 per GB
- Metrics (Annual)$0.50 per GB
- External Monitoring$25/mo
- External Monitoring (Annual)$21/mo
- Transaction Monitoring (Playwright)$20/mo
- Transaction Monitoring (Playwright, Annual)$17/mo
- Status Page$15/mo
- Status Page (Annual)$12/mo
- Call Routing$250/mo
- Call Routing (Annual)$208/mo
- Per Responder License$9/responder/mo
- Reporting & Analytics$5/member/mo
- Reporting & Analytics (Annual)$4/member/mo
- User Management$5/user/mo
What Better Stack does
The capabilities that matter for observability tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Metrics
- ✓
- Log management
- ✓
- Distributed tracing
- ✓
- Application performance monitoring
- ✓
- Real-user monitoring
- ✓
- Alerting
- ✓
- On-call / incident management
- ✓
- Dashboards
- ✓
- OpenTelemetry-native
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud only
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (31)
Independently observed- Terraform⇄•
- Helm→•
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Linear
- GitHub
- Grafana
- Datadog
- Notion
- Sentry
- Zapier
- Prometheus
- Zabbix
- Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- New Relic
- Mixpanel
- Intercom
- Front
- Drift
- Terraform Provider
- NLog←•
- OpenTelemetry←•
- Google Calendar⇄
- Outlook Calendar⇄
- Webhooks⇄•
- REST API⇄•
- Claude⇄
- Codex⇄
- Cursor⇄
Security & compliance
Independently observed- SOC 2 Type II · Type IIactive
- ISO/IEC 27001active · DIN
Better Stack FAQ
Common questions about Better Stack, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Better Stack?
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
Is Better Stack free?
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
What platforms does Better Stack support?
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
Can Better Stack be self-hosted?
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
What does Better Stack integrate with?
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
What security certifications does Better Stack have?
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
Where is Better Stack available?
Better Stack is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.
Source: https://betterstack.com/pricing
Better Stack alternatives
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- ChronosphereAI-powered observability platform that reduces noise and accelerates incident detection across cloud-native systemslow · 47%
- GroundcoverAn observability platform that collects logs, metrics, and traces from cloud environments while keeping data local and costs predictable.medium · 73%
- MiddlewareObservability platform for cloud infrastructure and application monitoringmedium · 74%
- SematextUnified monitoring and observability platform for APIs, logs, metrics, and real-user experiencelow · 49%
- NagiosOpen source monitoring and alerting system for IT infrastructurelow · 21%
Compare Better Stack
Side by side against other observability tools, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Better Stack, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 75 | 0.12 | 8.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.06 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 0.05 | 4.9 | ✓ |
| Price level | 50 | 0.04 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 35 | 0.05 | 1.7 | ✓ |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 7 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Apm: Yes · Rum: Yes · Logs: Yes · Hosting: cloud · Metrics: Yes · On call: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 15 | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 50% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 60% |
Security
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