Better Stack
Monitoring, on-call and status pages sold as one product.
Where Better Stack fits
Better Stack's pitch is consolidation: the thing that detects the outage, the thing that pages the engineer, and the thing that tells customers are all the same subscription. If you would otherwise buy uptime monitoring and a status page separately, the bundled price is usually the cheaper path and the incident flow is less manual. If you already have monitoring you are happy with, you are paying for overlap.
Best for
Teams buying monitoring and a status page at the same time who want one vendor.
Watch out for
Overlap cost if you already run Datadog, Grafana or similar.
Better Stack pricing
Pricing
Not yet verified. We have not independently confirmed this against the vendor since the last pricing change. Check the vendor page before relying on it.
Better Stack features
Verified as supported
- Custom domain
- Remove vendor branding
- Per-component status
- Scheduled maintenance
- Email subscribers
- SMS notifications
- Slack notifications
- Webhooks
- RSS / Atom feed
- Embeddable widget
- Private status pages
- Built-in uptime monitoring
- Public API
Verified as not supported
- Self-hostable
| Feature | Better Stack |
|---|---|
| Custom domainServe the status page on your own domain, e.g. status.example.com. | Yes |
| Remove vendor brandingWhether the vendor's own branding can be removed from the public page. | Yes |
| Per-component statusBreak the page into individual services or components with independent states. | Yes |
| Scheduled maintenanceAnnounce planned windows in advance and notify subscribers. | Yes |
| Email subscribersLet customers subscribe to incident updates by email. | Yes |
| SMS notificationsDeliver incident updates over SMS. | Yes |
| Slack notificationsPush incident updates into a Slack workspace. | Yes |
| WebhooksFire an HTTP callback when incident state changes. | Yes |
| RSS / Atom feedMachine-readable incident feed. | Yes |
| Embeddable widgetDrop a live status badge or banner into your own app. | Yes |
| Private status pagesRestrict the page to authenticated or invited viewers. | Yes |
| Audience-specific pagesShow different components to different customer segments. | Not verified |
| Built-in uptime monitoringThe tool can detect outages itself, rather than only displaying states you set manually. | Yes |
| Public APICreate and update incidents programmatically. | Yes |
| SSO / SAMLSingle sign-on for your internal team members. | Not verified |
| Self-hostableSource available and deployable on your own infrastructure. | No |
Yes supported · No not supported · not yet verified by us (we show a dash rather than guessing).