# Better Stack

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/better-stack/  
**Website:** https://betterstack.com/docs/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Better Stack is a comprehensive infrastructure monitoring and observability platform that combines uptime monitoring, log management, incident management, status pages, and AI-powered site reliability tools. It helps teams identify and resolve website and server issues quickly by providing real-time alerting, detailed diagnostics, on-call scheduling, and public/private status pages.

## Kin Score — 30.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 30.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 26.4 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 41.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **Better Stack Escalation Policies API** — Manage escalation policies and on-call schedules
- **Better Stack Heartbeats API** — Manage heartbeat monitors for scheduled jobs and cron tasks
- **Better Stack Incidents API** — Manage incidents and on-call alerting
- **Better Stack Monitors API** — Manage uptime monitors for URLs, APIs, and services
- **Better Stack Status Pages API** — Manage public and private status pages
- **Better Stack Team Members API** — Manage team members and invitations

## Agentic access (1)

- **Better Stack Agentic Access** — 33 operations · 18 acting

## Security (4)

- **Better Stack Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Better Stack Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Better Stack Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published
- **Better Stack Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Better Stack Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Website Uptime Monitoring** — Monitor public websites and APIs for availability and alert on-call engineers when they go down.
- **API Health Checking** — Continuously verify that REST APIs return expected status codes and response times.
- **Cron Job Monitoring** — Use heartbeats to ensure scheduled tasks run on time and alert when they fail to check in.
- **Incident Response Automation** — Automate incident creation, on-call notifications, and resolution workflows to reduce MTTR.
- **Customer-Facing Status Communication** — Publish status pages that automatically reflect the real-time health of monitored services.
- **Infrastructure Observability** — Aggregate logs, metrics, and traces in a single platform for full-stack observability.

## Tags

Incidents, Logs, Monitoring, Platform, Status, Uptime, Observability, On-Call, Heartbeats

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/better-stack/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.