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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45.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 APIs

Uptime Monitoring Incident Management Status PagesOn-Call SchedulingObservability DevOps

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 45.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 14.7 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 18

Access Clarity 10.4 / 18

Operational Transparency 3.7 / 12

Contract Governance 2.7 / 11

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 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 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

Open Collections 5

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

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

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

Blog

Blog

BlogFeed

BlogFeed

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

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
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
  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: '0.23'
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

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