# Better Stack Reviews **Vendor:** Better Stack **Category:** [Website Monitoring Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/website-monitoring) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 320 ## About Better Stack Better Stack is an eBPF-based, AI SRE observability tool. It helps engineers ship high-quality software faster and be the hero of their engineering teams. ## Better Stack Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find the **ease of use** of Better Stack remarkable, making setup and integration straightforward and reliable. (118 reviews) - Users find the **easy setup** of Better Stack highly reliable and recommend it for its simplicity and features. (97 reviews) - Users praise the **excellent user interface** of Better Stack, highlighting its ease of implementation and integration. (73 reviews) - Users find the **setup ease** of Better Stack excellent, allowing quick monitoring and integration for their websites. (55 reviews) - Users praise the **easy integration and effective monitoring tools** of Better Stack, enhancing their productivity effortlessly. (51 reviews) - Monitoring (47 reviews) - UX Design (47 reviews) - Customer Support (46 reviews) - Easy Integrations (43 reviews) - Integrations (43 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **pricing expensive** after exceeding free tier limits, especially for the essential custom URL feature. (23 reviews) - Users find the **missing features** of Better Stack, such as a dashboard and advanced logs, quite limiting. (22 reviews) - Users find the **pricing issues** concerning, particularly the steep jump from the free tier to premium plans. (14 reviews) - Users find the **limited features** of Better Stack, like the basic app and slow custom domain setup, disappointing. (13 reviews) - Users seek improvements in **log management** , citing difficulties in accessing and viewing logs effectively. (12 reviews) - Users find the **complex configuration** of Better Stack challenging, especially for newcomers seeking simplicity. (11 reviews) - Limited Customization (10 reviews) - Notification Issues (10 reviews) - Inadequate Notifications (8 reviews) - Inefficient Alert System (8 reviews) ## Better Stack Reviews ### 1. Setup = Piece of cake **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay T. | Director of Technology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** BetterUptime is super easy to setup and creates excellent status pages. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** I have no complaints about Better Uptime. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Uptime monitors, service status pages for customers. ### 2. A simple & smooth solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adi R. | Product Designer **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Super easy to get started which I love. The fact that you can simply point it at a URL makes it really easy to use. The interface is really well done in my opinion as well. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Paid tiers are a little too steep for me at this time, but to be quite honest I don't really have anything critical in production to the extent that this tool is super relevant for it. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes I don't check my site for a while, and because I self-host it (for all kinds of reasons), it can potentially go down without me knowing it. It's useful to have someone looking out for me ### 3. From zero to monitoring all my websites and backend service in few minutes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** The UI is very clean and well done. I always find the right section without having to navigate complex menus. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Not a dislike, more something I'd like to see implemented: it would be very nice if the home page would show websites and services monitored with some insight, some sort of cards of websites instead of just the list of monitored sites that you need to click to see the status of (though the red and green light indicator shows if a website is under incident). **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having all my websites monitored and avoiding missing an SSL renewal allows me to sleep better. And having the possibility to set multiple types of alerts is an excellent way to prevent missing issues and incidents. The status page is handy, too, and the info is clean and straight to the point. ### 4. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Well thought out, best free tier plan within it's category. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** The navigation within status page reporting section could be a bit clearee, but once you figure it out, everything falls inro place. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps our team and customers easily figure out what, when and where happened. ### 5. Honestly exceeded my expectations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mostafa m. | C, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** How reliable and accurate it is when our app goes down. Instant notifications. Its awesome **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** I've been using Better UpTime for about 2-3 weeks and haven't ran into anything is dislike **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some problems we are solving with better uptime is having as little down time as possible. The benefits we realized were increased performance and less down time ### 6. Better Peace of Mind **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** It was an easy setup. Adding new domains or services was simple and there were many monitoring options available. On top of several monitoring options, there were also several notification methods too. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** There isn't really much to dislike about Better Uptime. If I had to list my biggest complaint so far, it would just be that I wish the app was an app and not just a PWA/portal to the website. **Recommendations to others considering Better Stack:** This is definitely a good, easy to use monitoring solution. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping an eye on my servers was the main reason for getting Better Uptime. Now I also use it to monitor services on my home network to get notifications if my internet goes down when I'm not there. ### 7. Fantastic Features for fantastic value **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel G. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** We use Better Uptime across a few accounts and clients. It's helped us keep on top of our infrastrutcutre and has allowed our partners to notify us of issues and ensure platform transparency. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** We have none - I hope they continue to support and enhance Better Uptime with many more features in the future. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Clients tend to like to know how their services are performing - especially SMBs. Better Uptime allows us to create custom status pages for them to ensure peace of mind. For our enterprise-level clients, we've enhanced the method of communicating issues and planned maintenance to ensure we meet SLAs. We have received positive feedback from project managers and developers about how effective and easy it has been to be kept in the loop. ### 8. This is one of the tools on which I rely for my daily work and swear upon **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ivan A. | Owner and CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** 1. Voice notifications — nothing beats a ringing phone that one has to pick up and press a button to acknowledge an alert. Much more difficult to overlook than an SMS or a push alert. 2. Heartbeats — the possibilities to use this feature to control various processes that need to execute on a schedule are huge. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** After 9 months of use I really don't have anything to dislike about this product. If I have to be really, really picky — perhaps their mobile app is a bit of a letdown as it doesn't replicate the full functionality of the web dashboard but redirects towards it (for example, to see the details of an alert). Because I have 2FA enabled on my account, there are several additional operations that I need to perform to see what happened during an alert. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** BU helps me keep track of my website uptime and holds me honest towards 3rd parties who are using — or consider using — my hosting services. Also, the Heartbeat feature allows me to be sure that my servers perform as they should and that backups are made regularly. ### 9. Awesome UI and features even for free **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaëtan G. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** I have tried many status page before, especially the one from Jira and UptimeRobot, unfortunalely the features were not great and the UX horrible. I use betteruptime for my growing business, the ping and hearbeat features really change my dev life, the fact that I can connect everything with Slack or get a call if my services go down is awesome. The nice thing is that for once, even with the free plan you get a nice service to get started. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Price is a bit high for a solo developer, might upgrade when my buisness grown though. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Peace of mind when not manually monitoring services as well as quicker response when an incident occur. ### 10. Powerful, easy to setup and use. Nice looking status page. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** René A. | Web and Graphic designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** I like how easy it is to set up and start using, and it takes only a few minutes to get up and running per website. Status pages look very professional with my company logo, and they are easy to understand for my clients. When using status pages, my clients can subscribe to the uptime monitor and get notifications when the website is down and back online again, which is great. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Nothing, but I would love to see integration with MainWP. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can monitor all my own and client's websites. This is a great way to see how well or bad different hosting companies perform, and I have already moved several websites away from bad hosting. It is very easy to convince clients to move to another hosting company, when I can show uptime statistics for the past 30 - 365 days. ### 11. Amazing service for affordable prices. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Better Uptime, even on their free plan, provide a clean and easy way to track the availability of your online services. The free plan is great for small-scale projects, while the paid plans provide extremely useful features like calling on-call staff when an outage is detected. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Setting up the website for your customers to view the status of your services was a bit confusing at first, but after a few minutes of messing with it, it worked as intended. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better Uptime provides us with a great way of tracking the status of our services without setting up a system ourselves. It is extremely easy to set up and maintain. ### 12. Amazing website monitor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nuno B. | DevOps Engineer - Outsystems Professional Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** I like the fact that you can setup your monitors and your status page in a very easy and intuitive way. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** So far there is nothing to dislike, even the free version is full of features. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitor my websites for availability. Before I would need to check them manual or with a small script, but with Better Uptime, I can even check them from different geographic locations. ### 13. Perfect solution for ecommerce sites **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhimanyu Singh R. | Website Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** The call alerts are instant. The moment your site goes. It will alert you based on your config. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** To get started, you need to attach an active domain, before you even check out what else is in the offering. **Recommendations to others considering Better Stack:** Give it a try. You won't regret it. The UI is simple to boot up and alert calls are instant. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was looking for a solution to assure the clients a better watch on their sites. ### 14. Excellent product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander James T. | CTO **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Intuitive interface; reliable alerts; clear pricing **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Not much at this stage. I'll be back with feedback once I notice improvement points **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Knowing when there is a problem with the company's infrastructure and the website is not accessible. ### 15. Easy to get started logging with Logtail **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Easy to get started with centralized logging using Logtail. Includes log search functionality. Additionally provides customized views with alerts, alongside a dashboard to monitor your system and application logs. It also has a generous free tier. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** It recommends using Vector to send the logs to its service. That may require a little more configuration if you want to log your custom application log files. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralized Logging for distributed applications and microservices is made easy ### 16. Best Service! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex T. | none **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** I like a lot of features, like your own status page with domain and monitors 3 minute check **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** I dont know what im dislike in this product **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solved problems that i didint know is my server down or up ### 17. Powerful must have app for webshop owner **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saša B. | Webshop admin, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Easy & quick setup and after a minute you can start monitoring your domain. Easy to navigate thanks to the great UX design. Push notifications do a great job as soon as the domain has delivery issue. An absolutely mandatory application that will help any web store / site owner or administrator. Top recommended! **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Absolutely nothing to complain about, it works perfectly as it should. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** If the outage is longer or often at the same time, contact the service provider or I can temporarily pause ads to stop unnecessary payment clicks. ### 18. Better Uptime - another way to monitor your websites **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kestutis J. | IT engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Even with the free version, we have ability to monitor our websites every 3 minutes. It's more than enough for our company. So if you are not a bank or government, you clearly can use even the free version. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** None of them I had inspected. There is nothing I dislike. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** For now we are just monitoring our website up times and it is very helpful when site is down. ### 19. Better Uptime has helped us so much! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dinuka J. | Lead Software Engineer & Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** We started using Better Uptime to monitor our new API service and it has helped us keep our customers informed as well as our engineers alerted on any and all issues that may come up in production. Thank you! **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** So far none! It's the best one out of all status monitoring services in the market **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Great pricing - Beautiful and simple status page - Custom domains - Fast ping/alerts ### 20. Just one word Fantastic! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saurabh S. | Designated Partner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** This is one of the coolest tools on our stack! Definitely, a most needed tool to keep track of uptime, incidents, and real-time alerts. Realtime and multi-location monitoring make to avoid any kind of false-positive alerts. The phone call-based alerts make our incident escalation process faster. The BetterUptime not just monitors the server uptime but also specific ports, SSL expiry, domain expiry, website content changes, and it makes it another level of product. Betteruptime makes life easier! **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Just wish to have some comprehensive mobile application with detailed alerts overview. Other than that so far, so good! We haven't deployed for our complete infrastructure yet! But it performs best on whatever we have added till now. So, no complaints! No dislikes! **Recommendations to others considering Better Stack:** Must-have for any website owners or agencies to monitor the website as well as server or ports. Even site content/keyword change detection makes this a valuable product for marketing agencies too. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Uptime monitoring and alerts. Monitoring our client sites, SSL and domain name. The call based incedent alerts making this a really out of the box application. This enables us to faster escalation for all any downtimes or errors within the system. ### 21. The best uptime monitor service for independent developer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harold F. | Frontend Web Developer **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Beautiful UI, clean and straightforward steps. Free custom domain status page and free SSL cert issue monitor, them even can offer domain expire monitor! As a personal web developer, I can't afford the expensive service like "Atlassian status page", and self-host opensource service is not very reliable. so when i found the betterUptime, i realize this is everything i want. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Register step takes a little time. but it's okay. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helped monitor website online status and find an issue of SSL cert. I thought it was configured rightly, but no. ### 22. Powerful and user-friendly at the same time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolas K. | It-Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** It's such a powerful tool and at the same time user friendly and very well designed. I love the monitoring and the feature of getting called in case something happens. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** The prices are a little high, but are totally relatable and make sense. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm monitoring several of our company's online services over this tool. It makes our company way more productive and prepared in case something happens. ### 23. Clear Winner **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew A. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** The simplicity to use, the free plan is great, the custom domain on the free plan is also available. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** So far our experience with Better Uptime is great. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Status page for our startup ### 24. Trustworthy, reliable, easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rob B. | Principal software engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** It's really quick and easy to setup a check for personal use. A clean, modern look and feel coupled with an intuitive interface makes it so. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** The red and green dots on the dashboard are hard to tell apart for colourblind people. Also, I get you want to charge businesses - fair do's - but my hockey club is a voluntary non-profit organisation and we're love an on-call rota. **Recommendations to others considering Better Stack:** Look at the advanced settings, decide on your pricing tier early. Enjoy it! **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our Hockey club website goes offline periodically, about 2-3 times a year. We want to catch that and reboot the services. ### 25. Simply amazing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Terry M. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Everything worked as expected. Intuitive user interface, beautiful status page, frequent check interval, affordable (free!), Slack integration for alerting. It literally does everything I need it to do, and it does it extremely well. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Nothing, maybe some better support around customizing the status page to fit in my site's dark theme without having to muck with CSS. Truthfully I haven't tried customizing the page yet since the default is already beautiful. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Uptime monitoring all my company's website and API server ### 26. Fantastic Uptime Monitoring Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lisa F. | Graphic and web designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Clean, straightforward UI. Native app for mobile monitoring. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Can't seem to generate reports for individual sites easily **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better Uptime monitors sites for outages and immediately informs the user. Even though web hosts claim 99% or better uptime, Better Uptime gives the actual story. ### 27. Start using it from a few days and really satisfied **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luca N. | Webmaster, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** The different services included, the design of the interface, the configuration options, the possibility to have an uptime page on your website **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Nothing particularly so far, I'm doing some testing to use all the features at their best **Recommendations to others considering Better Stack:** It's a reliable and highly configurable service to monitor your website **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm able to control the reliability of my website better and to show my users that we are always on ### 28. Better Uptime always alerts me when there is an issue **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arnold E. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** I love the clean design of their status pages, and You can even post updates to let your customers know about ongoing incidents. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** It will be nice if they could collect metrics from say "prometheus" to make the monitoring complete. **Recommendations to others considering Better Stack:** It's a no-brainer I love it! **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** I easily notify my clients when there is an incident and provide them updates as I resolve the incidents. Better Uptime also gives me peace of mind that my cron jobs like DB backup are executing successfully daily since it is being monitored. ### 29. Works, Beautifully **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew V. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** I was initially drawn to Better Uptime for its neat interface and generous pricing, but its excellent incident management and easy configuration made it a total no-brainer. Made the switch from Uptime Robot to Better Uptime and never looked back! **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** There is nothing I dislike that comes to mind. Keep up the good work! **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better Uptime has helped me monitor the historical uptime of several services and alerts me when they go down, which has helped me immensely in reducing downtime to a minimum! ### 30. Simple solution for most common monitoring requirements **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hugo v. | Coordinator Technical staff, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Easy to setup and for simple requirements even free to use. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** To be honest. I can't think of anything right now. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** faster awareness of issue with our broadcast system. ### 31. I love Better Uptime! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** The status pages are really nice, like really nice - probably my favourite part about the entire experience. 30 second checks are also really good. Server Agents would be a nice addition! **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Not being able to modify the actual UI of the status pages, for example colours to match the colour scheme of the actual business. Other than this, the experience and panel is amazing. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Status pages at a more affordable price, the call scheduling is also very handy to automatically rotate people who are on call without having to do anything from a manual perspective. ### 32. Very clean and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** The logs are real time. I can run a program and then see the logs within seconds. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** The first time I logged in it took me a moment to know when ch severs I was using because we have a couple. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping more people troubleshoot errors ### 33. Best Uptime Service for your Business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos I. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** It offer all the tools you need to manage your website status and keep your members notified in what's happening **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** The mobile apps can improve more such as showing the dashboard inside the app not opening external link **Recommendations to others considering Better Stack:** I have switched from uptime robot and I am so happy I have done the switch a long time ago if I knew **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeps my costumers notified with any maintenance going on our website ### 34. Great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cito G. | web developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Very customizable, great status pages (with custom URL), and the phone calls stop if all your warnings go off at once. Pauses phones for 60 minutes, but you still get the emails etc. Avoiding too many phone rings at once. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Nothing wrong with this product at all. Everything seems very on point. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is keeping track of my website servers, my email servers, and a few web application servers. I have 3 status pages setup for the different services, customizable on my own subdomain. ### 35. Discord Notifications? Yes! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David N. | Systems Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Better Uptime provides a very well put-together interface to add monitors and alarms for services running at home, in the cloud, or elsewhere. I've been using it for about 6 months and it's been highly reliable and notifying me that my things are down, and when they come back up. It's been a game changer and keeping my SLAs. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** This product is great! The only problem I've run into is that webhooks aren't free. If you're using this product to "make money" then that's probably not a big deal. I use it for free open source software and services, so I didn't want to pay (sorry, I'm a bit cheap). The company was nice enough to give me webhooks for free when I asked for them. I couldn't have asked for more, and that feature being enabled has allowed me to maintain SLAs on my (also free) services. I connected Better Uptime to Notifiarr.com so I can get custom notifications in Discord. It works beautifully. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better Uptimes tells me very quickly when my services are down. It allows me to react and correct the problems before my users notice. ### 36. Great site monitor! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jack A. | Chief Creative Officer (CCO), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Very helpful to be able to see your site status across 4 continents. They check with a premium plan every 30 seconds and send phone, email, and text alerts if there is ever an issue detected. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Nothing! Wish they had a fully featured app, not only notification. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Website down time, and uptime. Site status page. ### 37. Great Service, Good Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua N. | It Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Better Uptime has really nice UI both on the backend admin side and the frontend status page side. My users really enjoy the auto incidents so they can know when one of my services is down that effects them. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Nothing much so far. All the features have been exceptional. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to monitor services that effect my users if they go down. ### 38. Simple yet robust **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nate O. | Full stack engineer **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** User friendly and intuitive. This service is very easy to use and quite robust! **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Nothing as of now. I use this service both for personal and work-related business. Dislikes are null. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using this service for uptime monitoring and end-user statuses. ### 39. Great and reliable service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kostas A. | Hardware Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** The interface is user-friendly, and the status landing page is easy to understand. In that way gives valuable tools to our company. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Until now there was nothing to dislike as the service works as it should. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can easily monitor my servers and, at the same time, act when something is wrong. ### 40. Quick+Good+Free **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Quick and easy platform to use. Even using the basic level lets me set up good monitors and beautiful dashboards. Often you have to select 2 out of 3, but here you get it all. Good service, Great price (free?), and easy to set up. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** I would love it if there were dark mode available. But for the price, I can't complain. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting fast notifications on when there are issues for APIs or ISPs. Sending reports to users with relevant information. ### 41. Best Monitoring Website **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lutfi F. | Internet Marketing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** it's realtime notification for monitoring health website **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** no, I like it as a user I hope Better in UI design **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** monitoring websites a realtime notification ### 42. Better Uptime has done an excellent job monitoring all the websites I manage! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben A. | developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** The content monitor is great to check that the site is always still displaying the text it's supposed to. Had it been defaced it would most likely be missing. :) **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Nothing I can think of off the top of my head.. **Recommendations to others considering Better Stack:** It works really well and does what it's supposed to. Support is prompt in replying and friendly. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** I rely on it to always check that the sites I manage are online and working so I know before my customers know if something is not working correctly. **Official Response from Magdalena Havlickova:** > Thank you, Ben! ### 43. Easy to use, accurate, timely. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh R. | IT Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Extremely easy to setup, navigate, and implement. Took less than 15 minutes. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** I have yet to run into anything I dislike about it. **Recommendations to others considering Better Stack:** For essential monitoring for free, the #1 choice after ping-ponging from service to service. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use BU to monitor on-site FTP Services, Cloud, and Websites. ### 44. Great monitor for websites **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fredy P. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** It's easy to implement, even for someone with no programming background. The user interface is great as well and simple to navigate. The notifications are customizable, so we can decide how often and through what medium we get contacted when something goes wrong with our site. The free tier is excellent; due to our basic needs, we stayed in it. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Nothing really, as stated previously, our needs are basic and better uptime covers all of them with flying colors! **Recommendations to others considering Better Stack:** If the needs are basic, the free tier is excellent, but if the site uptime is critical for the business, then the paid tiers offer great features to help detecting downtime. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just checking if our website is down due to hosting issues. So far it has notified of all of the incidents. ### 45. Works like a charm **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Super-fast setup and receive instant value. The status page works like a charm. We start receiving useful information in no time. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Nothing at the moment. It's very clear to config. Really easy. **Recommendations to others considering Better Stack:** It's an easy, simple, and powerful solution to monitor top-tier services uptime. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need a status page for our service, to show hows the service is. Also, really fast feedback if the platform has come problem. ### 46. Invaluable monitoring service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** As a busy digital agency monitoring over 100 client websites, we could not do without Better Uptime. We are able to test outages against the server endpoints, the DNS and the development/ staging instances in order to eliminate false positives and narrow down causes. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** There is really nothing to dislike about the service/ software. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Checking AWS and other hosting providers, being able to accurately report to clients on points of failure (if any). ### 47. Easy to use solution with detailled reporting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Setup was fast and easy, reports are clear **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Not yet encountered any negatives while using the product **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** I want to get notified when a site goes down, why it was down, and if it is structural. No more expired SSL thanks to this tool is a sweet bonus. ### 48. Love it! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabriel K. | Web Development Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** The simplicity of how everything works. Everything was set for less than 5 minutes and the team was ready to use it. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Can't change owners of the websites when they are added to a team. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring our uptime and receiving the information we need in a concurrent matter. ### 49. Great service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mirko K. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Great sevice, reliable, with superb options. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Nothing at all. Really a great service overall **Recommendations to others considering Better Stack:** Absolutely should be considered as your prime choice for monitoring service **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Website availability, connection issues, timeout errors ### 50. Tried several similar services, found better uptime to be the best of the bunch. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Better Stack?** Sleek UI. The free plan comes with enough bells and whistles to cover our basic needs. **What do you dislike about Better Stack?** Would be great to have an embeddable iframe widget to show the status of the API. **What problems is Better Stack solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring our API allows us to not rely on consumers telling us when it's down. ## Better Stack Discussions - [Is better Uptime free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-better-uptime-free) - 7 comments, 1 upvote - [View Better Stack pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/better-stack/reviews?page=6§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-28+15%3A31%3A09+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=48c3bc4b-a96a-44f1-ae31-ba5eaa475760&secure%5Btoken%5D=dd03ebb8f7ed321d66450688d4a57932b7917ee89ce2ae86dada0b095eb5cfd7&format=llm_user) ## Better Stack Integrations - [Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudwatch/reviews) - [APACHE](https://www.g2.com/products/apache/reviews) - [Apache Kafka](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-kafka/reviews) - 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Database Monitoring - API Monitoring - Real-Time Monitoring - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring - Security and Compliance Monitoring **Monitoring** - Constant Monitoring - Timely Alerts - TIcket Accuracy - AI Monitoring **Functionality** - Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning - Systems Monitoring **Visibility** - Dashboards and Visualizations - Alerts and Notifications - Reporting **Data Preparation** - Data Sources - Indexing - Automated Tagging - Data Blending **Monitoring** - Performance Baselines - Performance Analysis - Performance Monitoring - AI/ML Assistance - Multi-System Monitoring **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation **Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability** - Multi-Telemetry Ingestion - OpenTelemetry Support **Agentic AI - Observability Software** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Reliability Objectives & Service Operations - AI SRE Tools** - Intelligent On-Call Workflows - Error Budget Tracking - SLI & SLO Management - Service Health Modeling & Reporting **A/B Testing ** - Error and Bug Tracking - Split URL Testing - Data Analysis - Notes **Administration** - Activity Monitoring - Multi-Cloud Management - Automation - Auto-Scaling & Resource Optimization **Management Tools** - Ticket Assignment - Standardization - Lifecycle Visualization **Issue Resolution** - Root Cause Identification - Proactive Identification - Resolution Guidance **Monitoring and Management** - Automation - Performance Baseline - Real-Time Monitoring **Analysis** - Track Trends - Detect Anomalies - Metric and Event Data - Search - Alerts - Live Tail **Response** - Dashboards and Visualization - Incident Alerting - Root Cause Analysis (RCA) **Visualization & Dashboards - Observability** - Service Dependency Mapping - Unified Dashboard - Trace Visualization **Agentic AI - IT Alerting** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Website Monitoring** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **AI Detection & Signal Quality - AI SRE Tools** - Cross-Telemetry Correlation - Change-Aware Detection - Adaptive Anomaly Detection - Alert Correlation & Noise Reduction **Visitor Information** - User Identification - Search Box **Analysis** - Reporting - Dashboards and Visualizations - Spend Forecasting and Optimization **Management** - System Integration - Alerting - Reporting **Visualization** - Dashboards - Data Discovery **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability** - Cross-Telemetry Correlation - Root Cause Detection - Intelligent Alerting **Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Log Monitoring** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Investigation & Root Cause Analysis - AI SRE Tools** - Guided Incident Investigation - Live Debugging in Production - AI Root Cause Analysis - Runtime-Verified Root Cause Analysis **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability** - Kubernetes Monitoring - Hybrid/Multi-Cloud Support **Agentic AI - Session Replay** - Cross-system Integration **Agentic AI - Incident Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Log Analysis** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring** - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Automation & Platform Controls - AI SRE Tools** - Automated Runbook & Workflow Execution - Human-in-the-Loop Remediation - Integration, APIs & Secure Access Controls - AI-Assisted Code Fix Generation **AI Features - Observability** - Predictive Insights - AI-Generated Incident Summaries - AI Anomaly Detection **Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring** - AI-Powered Anomaly Detection - AI-Driven Insight Recommendations **Performance** - Real User Monitoring (RUM) - Second by Second Metrics **Functionality** - 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