Better Stack

Better Stack is an infrastructure monitoring and observability platform that combines uptime monitoring, heartbeat monitoring for scheduled jobs, incident management with on-call paging and escalation policies, public and private status pages, log/trace/metric telemetry queried with ClickHouse SQL, error tracking with session replay, and an AI SRE for automated root cause analysis. It is OpenTelemetry-native on ingestion — OTLP/HTTP endpoints for logs, traces and metrics — and publishes three REST management surfaces (Uptime v2, Telemetry v1, Errors v1) declared in its own RFC 9727 /.well-known/api-catalog, alongside a first-party remote MCP server at mcp.betterstack.com exposing roughly 106 agent tools behind OAuth 2.1.

Better Stack publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Heartbeats API, Incidents API, Monitors API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Observability, Uptime Monitoring, Incidents, Logs, and Monitoring.

The Better Stack catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Better Stack’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, developer portal, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, and 40 more developer resources.

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70.2/100 exemplar ▬ flat Agent 58/100 agent ready Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 4 Agent Skills 8 Features

Observability Uptime Monitoring Incidents Logs Monitoring Status Pages On-Call Error Tracking OpenTelemetry MCP

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

SaaS Platform Operations Management

BC-4220

HeartbeatsIncidentsMonitors

POST /incidents/{id}/acknowledge POST /incidents/{id}/resolve POST /incidents/{id}/escalate POST /monitors

What people ask Better Stack 4

The questions people put to an LLM, and the jobs they hand an agent, that Better Stack's APIs answer — each one linked to the operation that does it. Generated by API Evangelist

Better Stack Incidents API List incidents “Which incidents have been opened in my Better Stack account?” Open a new incident and alert the team “How do I manually raise an incident and page my on-call team?” Get an incident's details “What is the current status of a specific incident?” Delete an incident “Can I permanently remove an incident that was opened by mistake?”

Better Stack Monitors API List uptime monitors “Which URLs am I monitoring in Better Stack?” Create an uptime monitor for a URL “How do I start monitoring a website for downtime?” Get a monitor's configuration “What URL and check frequency is a specific monitor using?” Change an existing monitor's settings “Can I change the URL or check interval of a monitor I already have?”

Better Stack Status Pages API List status pages “Which public status pages do I have in Better Stack?” Create a public status page “How do I publish a status page for my customers?” Get a status page's settings “What subdomain and custom domain is a specific status page using?” Change an existing status page “Can I post an announcement on a status page I already have?”

Better Stack Heartbeats API List heartbeat monitors “Which heartbeats are set up in my Better Stack account?” Create a heartbeat for a scheduled job “How do I get alerted when a cron job stops checking in?” Get a heartbeat's details “What period and grace settings does one specific heartbeat have?” Change an existing heartbeat's settings “Can I change how often an existing heartbeat expects a ping?”

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 70.2/100 · exemplar

Contract Quality 10.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 10.1 / 15

Access Clarity 15.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 4.4 / 10

Contract Governance 4.1 / 9

Discoverability 5.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 6.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 58/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document +5 pts — a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json declaring a version and at least one service, OR (0.27) a live x402 payment challenge from _data/x402-adoption.json — `self` when its endpoints are on the provider's own domain, `platform` when they are on a vendor's
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode +4 pts — OpenAPI: destructive operations expose a dry_run / simulate / preview / validate_only parameter

1 more unmet check in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 56.6 — up to +10.9 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 44.7 — up to +7.2 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 67.3 — up to +6.5 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/betterstack/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/betterstack to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

Better Stack is an area vendor: providers adopt it to run part of their developer surface. This is the Kin Score checks its features can move for a provider that adopts it, what each one really earns, and what it earns nothing for.

status pagecapability map6 features checked 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.22.0

Better Stack touches one Kin Score check, status_page_present, and today earns at most half of it. Its status pages answer any path with an identical 200 page, which the pointer-liveness probe reads as a soft-404: all 6 .betteruptime.com status pointers in the catalog grade dead (0 points), and a custom status.yourdomain.com page is graded unverified (3 of 6) only because the scorer excuses status. hosts as SPA shells. A provider on Better Stack should put the page on a status.* custom domain and declare it. The Better Stack MCP server, subscriber notifications and maintenance windows score nothing for the provider.

Operational Transparency3.0 of 38 pts

Check	Earns	Through
Status pageconditional Operational TransparencyOnly on a custom domain whose host begins with `status.`. The default *.betteruptime.com pointer earns 0 (see earns_nothing).	3.0 of 6	Custom domain (status.yourdomain.com)

Across 8977 providers that publish a contract, adopting Better Stack would move 0. Median lift: composite +0.0 (90th percentile +0.0), agent readiness +0.0 (+0.0). Conditional rows excluded.

What Better Stack ships that earns nothing (2)

Hosted status page on a *.betteruptime.com subdomain — A *.betteruptime.com pointer is a soft-404 on a host the SPA rule does not excuse, so it grades dead: 6 of 6 such pointers in the catalog earn 0 of 6 points today.
Better Stack MCP server (mcp.betterstack.com) — It manages the provider’s Better Stack account for the provider’s own team. The dimension reads an MCP server for the provider’s API, described in the provider’s mcp/ manifest; this is neither.

A model, not a score. Adopting this vendor changes a provider's Kin Score only when the provider publishes the resulting artifacts on its own surface; nothing here writes a score, and no sponsorship or partnership can. The rating is not for sale → · Full vendor facets artifact

Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Observability	builds-on	51.9	-	-
Infrastructure-as-Code Provider Registries (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi)	builds-on	51.9	-	-
Zoom App Marketplace and Partner Ecosystem (builders and partners on Zoom)	builds-on	51.9	-	-
Atlassian Marketplace (builders on Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)	builds-on	51.9	-	-
DigitalOcean Marketplace (partner 1-click apps and SaaS add-ons)	builds-on	51.9	-	-
Raycast Store Extensions (first-party publishers + community-wrapped products)	builds-on	51.9	-	-
Artifact Hub Cloud-Native Packages	builds-on	51.9	-	-
Intercom App Store (customer-support, chat and messaging integrations)	builds-on	51.9	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 5

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Better Stack Heartbeats API

The Heartbeats API from Better Stack — create and manage heartbeat monitors that alert when a cron job or background task stops reporting.

Better Stack Incidents API

The Incidents API from Better Stack — create, acknowledge, escalate, resolve and reopen incidents, and read the incident timeline.

Better Stack Monitors API

The Monitors API from Better Stack — create and manage uptime monitors and read their availability and response-time series.

Better Stack Status Pages API

The Status Pages API from Better Stack — create and manage public and private status pages and the resources shown on them.

Better Stack Telemetry API

The Telemetry API from Better Stack — manage log, trace and metric sources, fields, metric expressions, dashboards, charts and chart alerts. Declared by Better Stack's own /.wel...

Better Stack Errors API

The Errors API from Better Stack — manage error-tracking applications, application groups and releases, and triage error patterns and exceptions. Declared by Better Stack's own ...

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Better Stack Uptime Heartbeats API

OPEN COLLECTION

Better Stack Uptime Heartbeats Incidents API

OPEN COLLECTION

Better Stack Uptime Heartbeats Monitors API

OPEN COLLECTION

Better Stack Uptime Heartbeats Status Pages API

OPEN COLLECTION

Better Stack Uptime API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Better Stack MCP Server

Better Stack ships a first-party remote MCP server that fronts the Uptime, Telemetry (logs/traces/metrics) and Error Tracking products, plus a documentation search tool and team...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 4

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

betterstack-cover-a-cron-job-with-a-heartbeat

AGENT SKILL

betterstack-provision-uptime-monitor

AGENT SKILL

betterstack-report-service-availability

AGENT SKILL

betterstack-triage-and-resolve-incident

AGENT SKILL

Better Stack API pricing

Prices published by Better Stack, read 2026-10-28 from betterstack.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
Free for personal projects	$0 per month Includes: 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page; Slack & e-mail alerts; 100,000 exceptions per month; 5,000
Unlimited team members	$0 per member per month Includes: Free access to Telemetry
Responder license (monthly)	$34 Includes: Access to Incidents, including on-call, monitoring and status pages, with unlimited phone call and S
Responder license (annual)	$29 Includes: Annual billing price per license per month
Slack & Teams incident management	$9 per responder license per month Includes: Channel-based & Thread-based workflows
Additional public status page	$15 per month Includes: 1 status page included
White-label status page	$250 per page per month Includes: Removes "Powered by Better Stack" footer
Status page password authentication	$50 per page per month

All 28 plans, limits and sources →

Billed by: bundle · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Betterstack Plans Pricing

28 plans

PLANS

Betterstack Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Betterstack Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Better Stack

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Betterstack Finops

FINOPS

Features 8

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Uptime Monitoring

Monitor URLs, APIs, and services for availability with global region checks.

Heartbeat Monitoring

Monitor scheduled jobs and cron tasks with heartbeat pings.

Incident Management

On-call alerting with escalation policies, acknowledgement, and resolution workflows.

Status Pages

Public and private status pages with custom domains and real-time component status.

Log Management

Collect, search, and visualize logs across your infrastructure stack.

Error Tracking

Two-layer error tracking — deduplicated error patterns over individual exceptions — with session replay.

AI SRE

AI-powered root cause analysis for automated incident investigation.

MCP Server

First-party remote MCP server at mcp.betterstack.com exposing ~106 agent tools across Uptime, Telemetry and Errors behind OAuth 2.1.

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Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Betterstack Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Better Stack API Rules

53 rules · 50 errors 1 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 8

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Betterstack Heartbeats Api Phrasing Overlay

7 actions · phrasing · betterstack-heartbeats-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Betterstack Heartbeats Overlay

10 actions · documentation · betterstack-heartbeats-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Betterstack Incidents Api Phrasing Overlay

10 actions · phrasing · betterstack-incidents-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Betterstack Incidents Overlay

13 actions · documentation · betterstack-incidents-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Betterstack Monitors Api Phrasing Overlay

8 actions · phrasing · betterstack-monitors-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Betterstack Monitors Overlay

11 actions · documentation · betterstack-monitors-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Betterstack Status Pages Api Phrasing Overlay

7 actions · phrasing · betterstack-status-pages-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Betterstack Status Pages Overlay

10 actions · documentation · betterstack-status-pages-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

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Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Betterstack Authentication

http/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Betterstack Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Betterstack Vulnerability Disclosure

no policy recorded

SECURITY

Betterstack Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Betterstack Scopes

2 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Betterstack Agentic Access

28 operations · 15 acting

AGENTIC

Integrations 5

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Slack

Receive incident alerts in Slack channels.

Microsoft Teams

Run incident management from initial report to resolution inside Teams.

PagerDuty

Forward incidents to PagerDuty.

Terraform

Manage Better Stack resources as infrastructure as code via the first-party BetterStackHQ providers.

OpenTelemetry

Send logs, metrics and traces over OTLP/HTTP to $INGESTING_HOST/v1/logs, /v1/traces and /v1/metrics.

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

Design & Contract 8

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

SpectralRules

Vocabulary

Conformance

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

DataModel

Webhooks

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Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

ToolCrosswalk

Packages

SDKs

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

Compliance

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

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Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

ChangeLog

StatusPage

ChangeLog

Support

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

VendorFacets

VendorFacets

Source (apis.yml)

aid: betterstack
name: Better Stack
description: Better Stack is an infrastructure monitoring and observability platform that combines uptime monitoring, heartbeat
  monitoring for scheduled jobs, incident management with on-call paging and escalation policies, public and private status
  pages, log/trace/metric telemetry queried with ClickHouse SQL, error tracking with session replay, and an AI SRE for automated
  root cause analysis. It is OpenTelemetry-native on ingestion — OTLP/HTTP endpoints for logs, traces and metrics — and publishes
  three REST management surfaces (Uptime v2, Telemetry v1, Errors v1) declared in its own RFC 9727 /.well-known/api-catalog,
  alongside a first-party remote MCP server at mcp.betterstack.com exposing roughly 106 agent tools behind OAuth 2.1.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-04'
  method: searched
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/betterstack.png
tags:
- Observability
- Uptime Monitoring
- Incidents
- Logs
- Monitoring
- Status Pages
- On-Call
- Error Tracking
- OpenTelemetry
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Observability
- Uptime Monitoring
- Incidents
- Logs
- Monitoring
- Status Pages
- On-Call
- Error Tracking
- OpenTelemetry
- Model Context Protocol
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/betterstack/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-25'
modified: '2026-09-04'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: betterstack:betterstack-heartbeats-api
  name: Better Stack Heartbeats API
  description: The Heartbeats API from Better Stack — create and manage heartbeat monitors that alert when a cron job or background
    task stops reporting.
  humanURL: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api
  baseURL: https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Heartbeats
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/betterstack-heartbeats-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/betterstack-heartbeats-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/heartbeats/
- aid: betterstack:betterstack-incidents-api
  name: Better Stack Incidents API
  description: The Incidents API from Better Stack — create, acknowledge, escalate, resolve and reopen incidents, and read
    the incident timeline.
  humanURL: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api
  baseURL: https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Incidents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/betterstack-incidents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/betterstack-incidents-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/incidents/
- aid: betterstack:betterstack-monitors-api
  name: Better Stack Monitors API
  description: The Monitors API from Better Stack — create and manage uptime monitors and read their availability and response-time
    series.
  humanURL: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api
  baseURL: https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Monitors
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/betterstack-monitors-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/betterstack-monitors-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/monitors/
- aid: betterstack:betterstack-status-pages-api
  name: Better Stack Status Pages API
  description: The Status Pages API from Better Stack — create and manage public and private status pages and the resources
    shown on them.
  humanURL: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api
  baseURL: https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Status Pages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/betterstack-status-pages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/betterstack-status-pages-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/status-pages/
- aid: betterstack:betterstack-telemetry-api
  name: Better Stack Telemetry API
  description: The Telemetry API from Better Stack — manage log, trace and metric sources, fields, metric expressions, dashboards,
    charts and chart alerts. Declared by Better Stack's own /.well-known/api-catalog; no OpenAPI is published for it and none
    has been reconstructed, so this entry carries documentation links only.
  humanURL: https://betterstack.com/docs/logs/api
  baseURL: https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Logs
  - Telemetry
  - Metrics
  - Tracing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/logs/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/logs/api
- aid: betterstack:betterstack-errors-api
  name: Better Stack Errors API
  description: The Errors API from Better Stack — manage error-tracking applications, application groups and releases, and
    triage error patterns and exceptions. Declared by Better Stack's own /.well-known/api-catalog; no OpenAPI is published
    for it and none has been reconstructed, so this entry carries documentation links only.
  humanURL: https://betterstack.com/docs/errors/api
  baseURL: https://errors.betterstack.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Error Tracking
  - Exceptions
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/errors/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/errors/api
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/betterstack-capability-edges.yml
  name: Better Stack Business Capability Map
- type: VendorFacets
  url: vendor-facets/betterstack-vendor-facets.yml
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/better-stack/overview
- type: SpectralRules
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/better-stack/refs/heads/main/rules/better-stack-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/better-stack/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/better-stack-vocabulary.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://betterstack.com/
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/betterstack-agentic-access.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/betterstack-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/betterstack-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/betterstack-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/betterstack-well-known.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/betterstack-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/betterstack-trust-center.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/betterstack-trust-center.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/betterstack-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/betterstack-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/betterstack-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/betterstack-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/betterstack-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/betterstack-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/betterstack-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/betterstack-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/betterstack-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/betterstack-webhooks.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/betterstack-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/betterstack-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/betterstack-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/betterstack-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/betterstack-finops.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/betterstack-changelog.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterstack
- type: Portal
  url: https://betterstack.com/docs/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://betterstack.com/docs/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://betterstack.com/docs/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/getting-started-with-uptime-api/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://betterstack.com/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.betterstack.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://betterstack.com/community/blog
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://betterstack.com/tag/changelog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ
- type: Support
  url: https://betterstack.com/help
- type: SignUp
  url: https://betterstack.com/users/sign-up
- type: Login
  url: https://betterstack.com/users/sign-in
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://betterstack.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://betterstack.com/privacy
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Uptime Monitoring
    description: Monitor URLs, APIs, and services for availability with global region checks.
  - name: Heartbeat Monitoring
    description: Monitor scheduled jobs and cron tasks with heartbeat pings.
  - name: Incident Management
    description: On-call alerting with escalation policies, acknowledgement, and resolution workflows.
  - name: Status Pages
    description: Public and private status pages with custom domains and real-time component status.
  - name: Log Management
    description: Collect, search, and visualize logs across your infrastructure stack.
  - name: Error Tracking
    description: Two-layer error tracking — deduplicated error patterns over individual exceptions — with session replay.
  - name: AI SRE
    description: AI-powered root cause analysis for automated incident investigation.
  - name: MCP Server
    description: First-party remote MCP server at mcp.betterstack.com exposing ~106 agent tools across Uptime, Telemetry and
      Errors behind OAuth 2.1.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Slack
    description: Receive incident alerts in Slack channels.
  - name: Microsoft Teams
    description: Run incident management from initial report to resolution inside Teams.
  - name: PagerDuty
    description: Forward incidents to PagerDuty.
  - name: Terraform
    description: Manage Better Stack resources as infrastructure as code via the first-party BetterStackHQ providers.
  - name: OpenTelemetry
    description: Send logs, metrics and traces over OTLP/HTTP to $INGESTING_HOST/v1/logs, /v1/traces and /v1/metrics.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 25
  pass: local-v3

Better Stack API — frequently asked questions

Does Better Stack have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Better Stack, including Better Stack Heartbeats API, Better Stack Incidents API and Better Stack Monitors API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Better Stack API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Better Stack, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Better Stack API?

Better Stack documents its authentication (http/oauth2 · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Betterstack Authentication.

How much does the Better Stack API cost?

Better Stack publishes its prices; its Free for personal projects plan is $0 per month as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 28 pricing plans for Better Stack, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Better Stack have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Better Stack: Better Stack ships a first-party remote MCP server that fronts the Uptime, Telemetry (logs/traces/metrics) and Error Tracking products, plus a documentation search tool and team administration. It is

Is the Better Stack API ready for AI agents?

Better Stack has a Kin Score of 70.2 out of 100 (exemplar) and an Agent Readiness score of 58.0 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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