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Better Stack

Monitoring, on-call and status pages sold as one product.

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Better Stack home page. Captured 2026-07-31 from the live page.

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.

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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 comparison
FeatureBetter 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).

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