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Better Uptime

Better Uptime (now part of Better Stack) is an uptime monitoring and incident management platform that helps engineering teams detect outages, manage on-call schedules, and communicate incidents through status pages. The platform provides a REST API following the JSON:API specification for programmatic management of monitors, heartbeats, on-call schedules, status pages, and integrations. Better Stack supports Bearer token authentication with both global and team-scoped API tokens, and offers a Terraform provider for infrastructure-as-code workflows.

Better Uptime publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Heartbeats API, Incidents API, Monitors API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Uptime Monitoring, Incident Management, Status Pages, On-Call Scheduling, and Observability.

The Better Uptime catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Better Uptime’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 15 more developer resources.

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53.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
4 APIs
Uptime MonitoringIncident ManagementStatus PagesOn-Call SchedulingObservabilityDevOps

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 53.4/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 11.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13
Governance 8.3 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 4

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

Better Uptime Heartbeats API

Manage heartbeat monitors for cron jobs and background workers

Better Uptime Incidents API

View and manage incidents triggered by monitors

Better Uptime Monitors API

Manage uptime monitors for websites and services

Better Uptime Status Pages API

Manage public status pages for communicating service health

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Betteruptime Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Betteruptime Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Betteruptime Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Betteruptime Context

2 classes · 48 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Better Uptime API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Better Stack Heartbeat

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Better Stack Incident

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Better Stack Monitor

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Better Stack Status Page

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Betteruptime Create Monitor Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Betteruptime Get Monitor Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Betteruptime List Incidents Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Betteruptime List Monitors Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 4

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

Betteruptime Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Betteruptime Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Betteruptime Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Betteruptime Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Betteruptime Agentic Access

16 operations · 9 acting

16 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Vocabulary
Vocabulary
 JSONLDContext
JSONLDContext

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage
StatusPage
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog
 BlogFeed
BlogFeed

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: betteruptime
name: Better Uptime
description: Better Uptime (now part of Better Stack) is an uptime monitoring and incident management platform that helps
  engineering teams detect outages, manage on-call schedules, and communicate incidents through status pages. The platform
  provides a REST API following the JSON:API specification for programmatic management of monitors, heartbeats, on-call schedules,
  status pages, and integrations. Better Stack supports Bearer token authentication with both global and team-scoped API tokens,
  and offers a Terraform provider for infrastructure-as-code workflows.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/betteruptime.png
tags:
- Uptime Monitoring
- Incident Management
- Status Pages
- On-Call Scheduling
- Observability
- DevOps
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/betteruptime/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: betteruptime:betteruptime-heartbeats-api
  name: Better Uptime Heartbeats API
  description: Manage heartbeat monitors for cron jobs and background workers
  humanURL: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/getting-started-with-uptime-api/
  baseURL: https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Heartbeats
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/betteruptime-heartbeats-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/getting-started-with-uptime-api/
- aid: betteruptime:betteruptime-incidents-api
  name: Better Uptime Incidents API
  description: View and manage incidents triggered by monitors
  humanURL: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/getting-started-with-uptime-api/
  baseURL: https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Incidents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/betteruptime-incidents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/getting-started-with-uptime-api/
- aid: betteruptime:betteruptime-monitors-api
  name: Better Uptime Monitors API
  description: Manage uptime monitors for websites and services
  humanURL: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/getting-started-with-uptime-api/
  baseURL: https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Monitors
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/betteruptime-monitors-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/getting-started-with-uptime-api/
- aid: betteruptime:betteruptime-status-pages-api
  name: Better Uptime Status Pages API
  description: Manage public status pages for communicating service health
  humanURL: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/getting-started-with-uptime-api/
  baseURL: https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Status Pages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/betteruptime-status-pages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/getting-started-with-uptime-api/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/betteruptime-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/betteruptime-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/betteruptime-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/betteruptime-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/betteruptime-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://betterstack.com/uptime
- type: Documentation
  url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/getting-started-with-uptime-api/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterstack
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/betteruptime
- type: Blog
  url: https://betterstack.com/community/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://betterstack.com/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.betterstack.com/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/betteruptime-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/betteruptime-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/betteruptime-finops.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/betteruptime-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/betteruptime-context.jsonld
- type: BlogFeed
  url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com