Better Stack provides a comprehensive observability platform that includes incident management, uptime monitoring, log management, and OpenTelemetry-native tracing. The platform integrates AI-native error tracking and offers a time series data warehouse accessible via API. It focuses on delivering these capabilities at a significantly lower cost compared to competitors while providing robust support.
Funding
$10M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Software development teams often struggle with fragmented observability data, leading to slower issue resolution and delayed software delivery. Existing monitoring solutions can be complex to integrate and lack the real-time alerting and collaboration features needed for efficient incident response.
Solution
Better Stack provides a unified observability platform that combines infrastructure monitoring, log management, incident management, and status pages, enabling development teams to ship higher-quality software faster. The platform leverages OpenTelemetry for collecting and analyzing metrics across services, offering real-time alerts and integrations with tools like Slack to streamline incident response. By centralizing observability data and providing AI-powered features like incident silencing and post-mortems, Better Stack helps teams proactively identify and resolve issues, improve uptime, and enhance collaboration. The platform also allows users to store logs in their own S3 bucket, ensuring compliance and control over their data.
Target Audience
Better Stack is designed for software development teams, DevOps engineers, and SREs who need a comprehensive observability solution to monitor infrastructure, manage logs, and respond to incidents effectively.
Features
- Uptime monitoring with screenshots for errors and traceroute & MTR for timeouts
- Playwright-based transaction checks for running tests with a real Chrome browser instance
- Unlimited global phone call alerts, SMS, push notifications, and Slack notifications included with every Responder license
- Slack-based incident management with templated workflows
- AI incident silencing to fine-tune ML models and reduce alert fatigue
- Smart incident merging to acknowledge multiple incidents with a single tap
- AI post-mortems to automatically learn from every incident
- Log management with the ability to store logs in a user's own S3 bucket
- Infrastructure monitoring with anomaly detection alerts and collaboration features
- Query logs and metrics with a drag & drop, SQL, or PromQL query builder
- OpenTelemetry & Prometheus-native infrastructure monitoring
- Customizable status pages with branded sub-domains and embeddable custom charts