# Better Uptime

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/betteruptime/  
**Website:** https://betterstack.com/uptime  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 46.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 46.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 67.1 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 57.9 |
| Access Clarity | 57.9 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| 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 (4)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Betteruptime Agentic Access** — 16 operations · 9 acting

## Security (4)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Betteruptime Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Uptime Monitoring, Incident Management, Status Pages, On-Call Scheduling, Observability, DevOps

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