Alternatives to Better Stack
A hosted observability service combining uptime monitoring, logs, on-call alerts, incident management and status pages. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Better Stack
A hosted observability service combining uptime monitoring, logs, on-call alerts, incident management and status pages.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Better Stack.
Better Stack Uptime
A hosted uptime monitor that checks websites, APIs, SSL certificates and domains and sends alerts.
Better Stack Uptime covers only the uptime, SSL and cron monitoring part with a status page, dropping the logs and incident management of the full platform.
Instatus
A hosted status page service with service monitoring, alerts and team incident handling.
Instatus combines monitoring, alerting and status pages with incident work in Slack and Teams, but it does not include log management.
UptimeRobot
A hosted uptime monitoring service with 50 free monitors, alerts and public status pages.
UptimeRobot offers 50 free monitors with alerts and public status pages, but it has no log management or on-call scheduling.
Sentry
An error tracking and application performance monitoring service for developers, hosted or self-hosted.
Sentry focuses on error tracking and application performance through an SDK, can be self-hosted, and routes alerts to Slack and PagerDuty, but lacks uptime checks.
SolarWinds Incident Response
A hosted incident response service, formerly Squadcast, for alert handling, on-call schedules and escalations.
SolarWinds Incident Response handles on-call schedules, escalations and alert deduplication, but it is paid per user and has no uptime monitoring, logs or status pages.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Better Stack as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Hyperping
A hosted service for public and private status pages with built-in uptime monitoring.
Better Stack bundles status pages with uptime monitoring, logs, on-call alerts and incident management in one hosted service.
Prometheus Alertmanager
A server that deduplicates, groups and routes alerts from Prometheus to email, PagerDuty and other receivers.
Better Stack is a hosted service with on-call alerts, incident grouping and status pages, but it is not open source and has no self-hosted option.
WebGazer
A hosted service for website, API, port and cron job monitoring with public status pages.
Better Stack bundles uptime monitoring with logs, on-call alerts and incident management, with larger data volumes on paid plans.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Better Stack Status Page
A hosted status page service with subscriber updates, custom domains and built-in uptime monitoring.
StatusCake
A hosted monitoring service for website uptime, page speed, SSL certificates, domains and servers.
Cronitor
A hosted monitoring service for cron jobs, background workers, websites and APIs, with failure alerts.
Checkly
A code-first monitoring platform that runs Playwright browser checks and API tests from global locations.
