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Better Stack

Uptime, logs, and incident management

Better Stack (formerly Logtail) provides uptime monitoring, log management, and incident response in one platform.

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Our Verdict

Better Stack is the modern alternative to legacy monitoring tools. Great value for uptime, logs, and incident management.

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • +Beautiful, modern interface
  • +All-in-one monitoring
  • +Great status pages
  • +Affordable

Cons

  • -Newer platform
  • -Less integrations than Datadog
  • -No APM yet

Features

Uptime monitoringYes
Log managementYes
Incident managementYes
Status pagesYes
AlertingYes
Self-hosted optionNo
On-call schedulingYes

Best For

StartupsStatus page needsUptime + logs combo

Pricing

Free tier available
Free$0
  • - 10 monitors
  • - 1GB logs
  • - 3-day retention
Team$24/mo
  • - Unlimited monitors
  • - 30GB logs
  • - 30-day retention
Business$83/mo
  • - 100GB logs
  • - 90-day retention
  • - SSO
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Last updated: 2026-01-15