Better Stack

Platform

Uptime monitoring, status pages, on-call and log management in one service

Price: Free tier, then paid
Access: Uptime API token

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About

Hosted service that combines uptime and cron monitoring, status pages, on-call alerting and a telemetry product for logs, metrics and traces. Telemetry data can be stored in the US, EU or Singapore; it is not HIPAA compliant.

What you can do with it

Monitor websites and cron jobs and alert by phone call, SMS or Slack
Publish a status page and run on-call schedules for your team
Collect and search logs and traces from apps and servers

Get started

Create a Better Stack team
Create an Uptime API token in the API tokens settings

Example

curl --request POST \
  --url https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/monitors \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $BETTER_STACK_API_TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{"monitor_type":"status","url":"https://example.com",
           "pronounceable_name":"Example homepage","email":true}'

Details

Hosting: Hosted service
Available in: Worldwide
Official SDKs: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Ruby
MCP server: Remote