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 APIs 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.
Better Stack’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, developer portal, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, and 39 more developer resources.
Kin Score
What adopting Better Stack moves on the Kin Score 1
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.
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.
| 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) |
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
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 COLLECTIONBetter Stack Uptime Heartbeats API
OPEN COLLECTIONBetter Stack Uptime Heartbeats Incidents API
OPEN COLLECTIONBetter Stack Uptime Heartbeats Monitors API
OPEN COLLECTIONBetter Stack Uptime Heartbeats Status Pages API
OPEN COLLECTIONBetter Stack Uptime API
OPEN COLLECTIONMCP 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 SERVERPricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Betterstack Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Betterstack Finops
FINOPSFeatures 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
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
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
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 8
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 7
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
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