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The AI SRE
observability stack

30x cheaper than Datadog. Predictable pricing.
Exceptional customer support.

Datadog bill too high? Migrate today, the rest of your contract is on us.
Migration assistance and bespoke onboarding included. Book a consultation

eBPF-based service map Log management OpenTelemetry-native tracing Infrastructure monitoring AI-native error tracking Incident management Status page Agentic AI SRE Resolve incidents in Slack or Teams

At a fraction of
your current costs

Get an unrivaled price-to-performance ratio. Forget sampling and ingest all your data or decrease your costs by 80x.

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Ingest up to

80x more data

with the same budget

or save up to

98%

of your costs

1 TB traces per month
1 TB logs per month
1 TB metrics per month
Datadog
approx. $56,774 per month
Better Stack
$687 per month

An estimate only. Assumes annual payments, European data location, 1 responder with a Tera bundle, the average event size of 1 kB, $5 per 100 Datadog's "custom metrics". Assumes 1,000 Datadog "custom metrics" equivalent to 1 GB metrics. Further assumes Datadog's $0.1 per ingested GB of spans & logs, and $2.5/million indexed spans & logs for 30 days. Adds up to $51,200 for metrics, $2,787 for logs, and $2,787 for spans per month.


AI SRE

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Robust MCP server

Integrate your logs, metrics, traces, and errors into your existing LLM
workflows with a top tier MCP server.

Get an AI SRE

Claude Code-like UI with the knowledge of your infrastructure.

Smart incident merging

10 incidents created at the same time? Acknowledge them with a single tap and keep your phone from ringing while fixing the issue.

Explain with AI

Analyze MTR, trace route, SSL certificates or connection errors.

Linear tickets suggested by AI

Downtime? Create Linear tickets to fix the root cause using AI-based
suggestions with a single tap.

AI written post-mortems

Get an automated post-mortem based on the incident timeline and Slack.

AI SRE

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Robust MCP server

Integrate your telemetry data into your existing LLM workflows with a top tier MCP server.

Get an AI SRE

Claude Code-like UI with the knowledge of your infrastructure.

Smart incident merging

10 incidents created at the same time? Acknowledge them with a single tap and keep your phone from ringing while fixing the issue.

Explain with AI

Analyze MTR, trace route, SSL certificates or connection errors.

Linear tickets suggested by AI

Downtime? Create Linear tickets to fix the root cause using AI-based
suggestions with a single tap.

AI written post-mortems

Get an automated post-mortem based on the incident timeline and Slack.

Tracing

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eBPF-based service map

See network flows, auto-instrument databases, and track SLOs.

Instrument clusters with OpenTelemetry with no code change

Gather traces, logs, and metrics using eBPF and OpenTelemetry. Remotely monitor collector’s throughput and adjust sampling, compression, and batching as needed.

Explore with "bubble up"

Investigate slow requests visually with drag & drop to find root cause.

Get an AI SRE: Claude Code with the knowledge of your telemetry

Leverage automated root cause analysis based on the eBPF-based service map and log analysis. A human is always in charge.

Apdex and RED metrics

Understand the overall health of a service in a single dashboard.

Tracing

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eBPF-based service map

See network flows, auto-instrument databases, and track SLOs.

Instrument clusters with OpenTelemetry with no code change

Gather traces, logs, and metrics using eBPF and OpenTelemetry. Remotely monitor collector’s throughput and adjust sampling, compression, and batching as needed.

Explore with "bubble up"

Investigate slow requests visually with drag & drop to find root cause.

Get an AI SRE: Claude Code with the knowledge of your telemetry

Leverage automated root cause analysis based on the eBPF-based service map and log analysis. A human is always in charge.

Apdex and RED metrics

Understand the overall health of a service in a single dashboard.

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Incident management

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Slack-based incident management

Get the right team members involved with powerful templated workflows directly in Slack and decrease your MTTR.

Smart incident merging

10 incidents created at the same time? Acknowledge them with a single tap and keep your phone from ringing while fixing the issue.

AI post-mortems

Learn from every incident instead of manually rewriting what happened.

Incident management

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Slack-based incident management

Get the right team members involved with powerful templated workflows directly in Slack and decrease your MTTR.

Smart incident merging

10 incidents created at the same time? Acknowledge them with a single tap and keep your phone from ringing while fixing the issue.

AI post-mortems

Learn from every incident instead of manually rewriting what happened.

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Uptime monitoring

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Screenshots for errors

We record the API errors and take a screenshot of your app being down.

Traceroute & MTR for timeouts

Understand connection timeouts and request timeouts with edge-based traceroute and MTR outputs.

Playwright-based transaction checks

Run tests with a real Chrome browser instance with a JavaScript runtime.

Phone call alerts & SMS included

Unlimited global phone call alerts, sms, push notifications, and Slack notifications included with every Responder license.

Uptime monitoring

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Screenshots for errors

We record the API errors and take a screenshot of your app being down.

Traceroute & MTR for timeouts

Understand connection timeouts and request timeouts with edge-based traceroute and MTR outputs.

Playwright-based transaction checks

Run tests with a real Chrome browser instance with a JavaScript runtime.

Phone call alerts & SMS included

Unlimited global phone call alerts, sms, push notifications, and Slack notifications included with every Responder license.

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Log management

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Analyze raw logs at scale

Run ad-hoc queries on raw logs at scale with our built-in query time sampling.
Query with SQL, PromQL, Drag & drop or a simple log filtering.

Don’t get billed for useless logs

Mark irrelevant logs as spam to exclude them and don’t get charged.

One-click pattern filtering

Group similar logs, filter or exclude patterns with a single click.
See surrounding logs from noisy neighbors.

SQL via HTTP API and MCP server

Query your logs, spans or metrics with SQL over HTTP API or our MCP server.

Store logs in your own S3 bucket

No more ‘hot storage’ and ‘cold storage’. Access all your logs all the time.
No need to rehydrate your logs from S3 ever again.

Drag & drop dashboards

Drag & drop the metrics you want to visualize. No SQL code necessary.

Log management

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Analyze raw logs at scale

Run ad-hoc queries on raw logs at scale with our built-in sampling.

Don’t get billed for useless logs

Mark irrelevant logs as spam to exclude them and don’t get charged.

One-click pattern filtering

Group similar logs, filter or exclude patterns with a single click.

SQL via HTTP API and MCP server

Query your logs, spans or metrics with SQL over HTTP API or MCP.

Store logs in your own S3 bucket

No need to rehydrate your data ever again.

Drag & drop dashboards

Drag & drop the metrics you want to visualize. No SQL code necessary.

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Infrastructure monitoring

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Anomaly detection alerts

Trigger alerts in real-time based on anomalies in logs and metrics. No need to configure exact alert thresholds. Get alerts via Slack, e-mail, phone, SMS, and more.

Collaboration built-in

Observe your teammates and comment on note-worthy data spikes.

Query with Drag & drop, SQL or PromQL

Get answers fast with a powerful SQL query builder. No need to learn a new querying language or ask your data analyst.

OpenTelemetry & Prometheus-native

Connect metrics in minutes using existing open-source collectors.

Infrastructure monitoring

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Anomaly detection alerts

Trigger alerts in real-time based on anomalies in logs and metrics. No need to configure exact alert thresholds. Get alerts via Slack, e-mail, phone, SMS, and more.

Collaboration built-in

Observe your teammates and comment on note-worthy data spikes.

Query with Drag & drop, SQL or PromQL

Get answers fast with a powerful SQL query builder. No need to learn a new querying language or ask your data analyst.

OpenTelemetry & Prometheus-native

Connect metrics in minutes using existing open-source collectors.

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Error tracking

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Made for Slack, Linear, Microsoft Teams, and Jira

Integrate with tools you already use to get alerted with rich contextual notifications. Need an urgent fix? Leverage the built-in incident management.

Compatible with Sentry SDKs

Track errors from 100+ platforms with the industry-standard Sentry SDKs.

Integrate with Claude Code or Cursor

Integrate Better Stack in seconds with a single prompt. Copy, run, and start tracking errors with Better Stack.

Terraform, API, and MCP server

Integrate new apps with Terraform and investigate errors with MCP.

Configurable exception grouping

Have a non-standard stack and want to group exceptions in an atypical way? We got you covered.

Error tracking

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Slack, Linear, MS Teams, Jira

Get alerted with rich notifications. Need an urgent fix? Leverage the built-in incident management.

Compatible with Sentry SDKs

Track errors from 100+ platforms with the industry-standard Sentry SDKs.

Integrate with Claude Code or Cursor

Integrate Better Stack in seconds with a single prompt. Copy, run, and start tracking errors with Better Stack.

Terraform, API, and MCP server

Integrate new apps with Terraform and investigate errors with MCP.

Configurable exception grouping

Have a non-standard stack and want to group exceptions in an atypical way? We got you covered.

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Real user monitoring

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Session replay

See how users interact with your product. Watch at 2x speed, skip pauses, filter for rage indicators.

Auto-capture user events

Collect clicks, form fills, and rage clicks with a single code snippet.

Product analytics with event funnels

See what parts of the critical path of your onboarding need improving by evaluating user actions step-by-step.

Correlate frontend with backend

See web events alongside backend traces and other log events.

Track web vitals

See Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, and Interaction to Next Paint segmented per URL.

Real-time website analytics at scale

Are you getting more visitors from ChatGPT or Gemini?

Real user monitoring

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Session replay

See how users interact with your product. Watch at 2x speed, skip pauses, filter for rage indicators.

Auto-capture user events

Collect clicks, form fills, and rage clicks with a single code snippet.

Product analytics with event funnels

See what parts of the critical path of your onboarding need improving by evaluating user actions step-by-step.

Correlate frontend with backend

See web events alongside backend traces and other log events.

Track web vitals

See Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, and Interaction to Next Paint segmented per URL.

Real-time website analytics at scale

Are you getting more visitors from ChatGPT or Gemini?

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Status page

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Branded page on your own sub-domain

Beautifully designed status page. Fully customizable with CSS and Javascript.

Subscribe to status page updates

Send automated updates to your customers when incident occurs. Let your customers subscribe to the entire status page or just selected components.

Translated into any language

Be perceived as a local by your foreign customers. Customize every translation.

Embed custom charts

Show pre-built charts with response times or add custom metrics with advanced visualizations directly to your status page.

Status page

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Branded page on your own sub-domain

Beautifully designed status page. Fully customizable with CSS and Javascript.

Subscribe to status page updates

Send automated updates to your customers when incident occurs. Let your customers subscribe to the entire status page or just selected components.

Translated into any language

Be perceived as a local by your foreign customers. Customize every translation.

Embed custom charts

Show pre-built charts with response times or add custom metrics with advanced visualizations directly to your status page.

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Happy customers, growing market presence

Ship higher-quality software faster. Be the hero of your engineering teams.

Start monitoring for free or book a demo

Don’t just take our word for it

We're proud to be working with publicly traded companies as well as individual indie hackers and are thankful for their feedback, suggestions, and support.

@BetterStackHQ is one of the best products I've ever used. Went from 0-100 on logging in 15 minutes. Incredible

Conor
@cnrstvns

I tested @BetterStackHQ for @gamubsapp! So much easier to configure and the interface is better than @FreshworksInc!

Quentin
@glaffont

@BetterStackHQ status page looks SO neat! A fantastic tool for SaaS products like @Snapodcast

TonyHe
@ttttonyhe

By far @BetterStackHQ has given me more pleasant surprises other tool in this space. We had an outage due to a domain name expiring, and it turns out we can even be alered about that. Great user experience and UI on top of all the features. How is it not more popular?

John
@johncjago

One year one tool. @linear won my heart last year. This year so far, @BetterStackHQ is the frontrunner, well designed 👏

Tianzhou
@tianzhouchen

I just checked this out, and have never been so happy that I saw an ad 👏

Chris
@chrishow

Looking for a status page? I recommend @BetterStackHQ. Perfect support, answered my dms in a couple of minutes, and it's the first actual cool looking status page which allows custom domains (on the free plan 😱) haven't actually tried it, but it looks good so far.

#NotSponsor

NeverLand
@neverlandoff

Switched from @Statuspage to @BetterStackHQ over the week end, looking pretty good status.speakbox.ca

Valentin Prugnaud 🦊
@valentinprgnd

What are you using for logging and incident management?

For me the go to is currently @BetterStackHQ - love their simplicity and powerful features. Would like to learn more about what's out there.

Markus Leimer
@markuslei22

I'm utterly blown away by @BetterStackHQ! They do everything. I'm now monitoring one of our US servers for every kind of log Ubuntu creates, custom alerts for errors, website downtime, incident logging, Slack notifications, S3 log storage, and loads more. 😍

Darren Pinder
@dmpinder

I absolutely love services like @BetterStackHQ

simple, does a great job, and has a generous free plan for companies just starting out

I don't remember finding anything even close to it ~4 years ago when i was looking for a monitoring tool for one of my projects

kostya
@nstkostyal

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