Better Uptime rebranded to Better Stack in 2023. See what its uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages offer today.
Better Uptime was the original name of a website, server, and API uptime monitoring product built by the company now known as Better Stack, headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. The product launched around 2020, initially gaining traction partly through a Heroku add-on listing, and offered uptime checks, incident alerting with phone-call escalation, on-call scheduling, and hosted status pages.
In 2023, the company rebranded its full product suite, including Better Uptime and a companion log-management tool called Logtail, into a unified platform called Better Stack, reflecting its expansion beyond uptime checks into logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and broader incident management.
Under the current branding, what used to be marketed as Better Uptime is now the Uptime module within Better Stack, reachable at betterstack.com/uptime; the betteruptime.com brand still commonly refers to this same product. It checks websites, servers, APIs, SSL certificates, and heartbeats from monitoring locations across multiple continents, with check intervals as fast as 30 seconds on paid plans and 3 minutes on the free plan.
The product includes incident management with phone, SMS, Slack, and Microsoft Teams alerting, on-call scheduling with escalation policies, Playwright-based synthetic transaction monitoring, and customizable public status pages, plus integrations with tools such as AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty, and Opsgenie.
Better Stack offers a free plan covering up to 10 monitors and heartbeats, one status page, and basic Slack and email alerting. Paid plans begin at roughly 29 US dollars per month and add unlimited team members, phone and SMS alerts, faster 30-second check intervals, on-call escalation, and Playwright-based transaction checks.
Higher enterprise tiers add SSO, SCIM, role-based access control, audit logging, and advanced reporting, typically at custom pricing. The company also advertises a 60-day money-back guarantee on its paid plans.
No. Better Uptime was rebranded to Better Stack in 2023, and its functionality now lives as the Uptime module within the Better Stack platform.
Better Uptime, along with the Logtail log-management tool, was rebranded and merged into the unified Better Stack platform in 2023.
Yes, Better Stack offers a free plan covering up to 10 monitors and heartbeats, one status page, and basic alerting.
Paid uptime monitoring plans start at approximately 29 US dollars per month, with enterprise tiers priced separately.
The Better Uptime name is still associated with a legacy Heroku add-on listing, which now maps to Better Stack's uptime monitoring product.
They are the same underlying company and product line; Better Uptime was the original brand, and Better Stack is the current, expanded branding covering uptime, logs, metrics, and incident management.
Better Stack is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic.
It includes multi-region uptime checks, incident alerting, on-call scheduling, synthetic transaction monitoring, and hosted status pages.