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 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Heartbeats API, Incidents API, Monitors API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Observability, Uptime Monitoring, Incidents, Logs, and Monitoring.

The Better Stack catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Better Stack’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, developer portal, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, and 38 more developer resources.

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65.6/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 50/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers 8 Features

Observability Uptime Monitoring Incidents Logs Monitoring Status Pages On-Call Error Tracking OpenTelemetryModel Context Protocol

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Composite quality — 65.6/100 · strong

Contract Quality 13.9 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 12.1 / 18

Access Clarity 18.0 / 18

Operational Transparency 5.2 / 12

Contract Governance 3.6 / 11

Discoverability 6.8 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 50/100 · 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

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.

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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 6

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

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

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Betterstack Plans Pricing

6 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Betterstack Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

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

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

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Betterstack Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Betterstack Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 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

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
- 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: 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

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