Training Example: Better Stack – Review the Data, Give Your Score & Compare to the Real AI Evaluation

[H1]
The AI SRE
observability stack
30x cheaper than Datadog. Predictable pricing.
Exceptional customer support.
Datadog bill too high? Migrate today, the rest of your contract is on us.
Migration assistance and bespoke onboarding included.
Book a consultation
eBPF-based service map
Log management
OpenTelemetry-native tracing
Infrastructure monitoring
AI-native error tracking
Incident management
Status page
Agentic AI SRE
Resolve incidents in Slack or Teams
[H2]
At a fraction of
your current costs
Get an unrivaled price-to-performance ratio. Forget sampling and ingest all your data or decrease your costs by 80x.
Explore pricing
Ingest up to
80x more data
with the same budget
or save up to
98%
of your costs
1 TB
traces per month
1 TB
logs per month
1 TB
metrics per month
Datadog
approx.
$55,574
per month
Better Stack
$687
per month
An estimate only. Assumes annual payments, European data location, 1 responder with a Tera bundle, the average event size of 1 kB, $5 per 100 Datadog's "custom metrics".
Assumes 1,000 Datadog "custom metrics" equivalent to 1 GB metrics. Further assumes Datadog's $0.1 per ingested GB of spans & logs, and $2.5/million indexed spans & logs for 30 days.
Adds up to $51,200 for metrics, $2,787 for logs, and $2,787 for spans per month.
[H2]
AI SRE
Explore AI SRE
[H3] Robust MCP server
Integrate your logs, metrics, traces, and errors into your existing LLMworkflows with a top tier MCP server.
[H3] Get an AI SRE
Claude Code-like UI with the knowledge of your infrastructure.
[H3] Smart incident merging
10 incidents created at the same time? Acknowledge them with a single tap and keep your phone from ringing while fixing the issue.
[H3] Explain with AI
Analyze MTR, trace route, SSL certificates or connection errors.
[H3] Linear tickets suggested by AI
Downtime? Create Linear tickets to fix the root cause using AI-basedsuggestions with a single tap.
[H3] AI written post-mortems
Get an automated post-mortem based on the incident timeline and Slack.
[H2]
AI SRE
Explore AI SRE
[H3] Robust MCP server
Integrate your telemetry data into your existing LLM workflows with a top tier MCP server.
[H3] Get an AI SRE
Claude Code-like UI with the knowledge of your infrastructure.
[H3] Smart incident merging
10 incidents created at the same time? Acknowledge them with a single tap and keep your phone from ringing while fixing the issue.
[H3] Explain with AI
Analyze MTR, trace route, SSL certificates or connection errors.
[H3] Linear tickets suggested by AI
Downtime? Create Linear tickets to fix the root cause using AI-basedsuggestions with a single tap.
[H3] AI written post-mortems
Get an automated post-mortem based on the incident timeline and Slack.
[H2]
Tracing
Explore tracing
[H3] eBPF-based service map
See network flows, auto-instrument databases, and track SLOs.
[H3] Instrument clusters with OpenTelemetry with no code change
Gather traces, logs, and metrics using eBPF and OpenTelemetry. Remotely monitor collector’s throughput and adjust sampling, compression, and batching as needed.
[H3] Explore with "bubble up"
Investigate slow requests visually with drag & drop to find root cause.
[H3] Get an AI SRE: Claude Code with the knowledge of your telemetry
Leverage automated root cause analysis based on the eBPF-based service map and log analysis. A human is always in charge.
[H3] Apdex and RED metrics
Understand the overall health of a service in a single dashboard.
[H2]
Tracing
Explore tracing
[H3] eBPF-based service map
See network flows, auto-instrument databases, and track SLOs.
[H3] Instrument clusters with OpenTelemetry with no code change
Gather traces, logs, and metrics using eBPF and OpenTelemetry. Remotely monitor collector’s throughput and adjust sampling, compression, and batching as needed.
[H3] Explore with "bubble up"
Investigate slow requests visually with drag & drop to find root cause.
[H3] Get an AI SRE: Claude Code with the knowledge of your telemetry
Leverage automated root cause analysis based on the eBPF-based service map and log analysis. A human is always in charge.
[H3] Apdex and RED metrics
Understand the overall health of a service in a single dashboard.
Replaces
[H2]
Incident management
Explore incident management
[H3] Slack-based incident management
Get the right team members involved with powerful templated workflows directly in Slack and decrease your MTTR.
[H3] Smart incident merging
10 incidents created at the same time? Acknowledge them with a single tap and keep your phone from ringing while fixing the issue.
[H3] AI post-mortems
Learn from every incident instead of manually rewriting what happened.
[H2]
Incident management
Explore incident management
[H3] Slack-based incident management
Get the right team members involved with powerful templated workflows directly in Slack and decrease your MTTR.
[H3] Smart incident merging
10 incidents created at the same time? Acknowledge them with a single tap and keep your phone from ringing while fixing the issue.
[H3] AI post-mortems
Learn from every incident instead of manually rewriting what happened.
Replaces
[H2]
Uptime monitoring
Explore uptime monitoring
[H3] Screenshots for errors
We record the API errors and take a screenshot of your app being down.
[H3] Traceroute & MTR for timeouts
Understand connection timeouts and request timeouts with edge-based traceroute and MTR outputs.
[H3] Playwright-based transaction checks
Run tests with a real Chrome browser instance with a JavaScript runtime.
[H3] Phone call alerts & SMS included
Unlimited global phone call alerts, sms, push notifications, and Slack notifications included with every Responder license.
[H2]
Uptime monitoring
Explore uptime monitoring
[H3] Screenshots for errors
We record the API errors and take a screenshot of your app being down.
[H3] Traceroute & MTR for timeouts
Understand connection timeouts and request timeouts with edge-based traceroute and MTR outputs.
[H3] Playwright-based transaction checks
Run tests with a real Chrome browser instance with a JavaScript runtime.
[H3] Phone call alerts & SMS included
Unlimited global phone call alerts, sms, push notifications, and Slack notifications included with every Responder license.
Replaces
[H2]
Log management
Explore log management
[H3] Analyze raw logs at scale
Run ad-hoc queries on raw logs at scale with our built-in query time sampling. Query with SQL, PromQL, Drag & drop or a simple log filtering.
[H3] Don’t get billed for useless logs
Mark irrelevant logs as spam to exclude them and don’t get charged.
[H3] One-click pattern filtering
Group similar logs, filter or exclude patterns with a single click. See surrounding logs from noisy neighbors.
[H3] SQL via HTTP API and MCP server
Query your logs, spans or metrics with SQL over HTTP API or our MCP server.
[H3] Store logs in your own S3 bucket
No more ‘hot storage’ and ‘cold storage’. Access all your logs all the time. No need to rehydrate your logs from S3 ever again.
[H3] Drag & drop dashboards
Drag & drop the metrics you want to visualize. No SQL code necessary.
[H2]
Log management
Explore log management
[H3] Analyze raw logs at scale
Run ad-hoc queries on raw logs at scale with our built-in sampling.
[H3] Don’t get billed for useless logs
Mark irrelevant logs as spam to exclude them and don’t get charged.
[H3] One-click pattern filtering
Group similar logs, filter or exclude patterns with a single click.
[H3] SQL via HTTP API and MCP server
Query your logs, spans or metrics with SQL over HTTP API or MCP.
[H3] Store logs in your own S3 bucket
No need to rehydrate your data ever again.
[H3] Drag & drop dashboards
Drag & drop the metrics you want to visualize. No SQL code necessary.
Replaces
[H2]
Infrastructure monitoring
Explore infrastructure monitoring
[H3] Anomaly detection alerts
Trigger alerts in real-time based on anomalies in logs and metrics. No need to configure exact alert thresholds. Get alerts via Slack, e-mail, phone, SMS, and more.
[H3] Collaboration built-in
Observe your teammates and comment on note-worthy data spikes.
[H3] Query with Drag & drop, SQL or PromQL
Get answers fast with a powerful SQL query builder. No need to learn a new querying language or ask your data analyst.
[H3] OpenTelemetry & Prometheus-native
Connect metrics in minutes using existing open-source collectors.
[H2]
Infrastructure monitoring
Explore infrastructure monitoring
[H3] Anomaly detection alerts
Trigger alerts in real-time based on anomalies in logs and metrics. No need to configure exact alert thresholds. Get alerts via Slack, e-mail, phone, SMS, and more.
[H3] Collaboration built-in
Observe your teammates and comment on note-worthy data spikes.
[H3] Query with Drag & drop, SQL or PromQL
Get answers fast with a powerful SQL query builder. No need to learn a new querying language or ask your data analyst.
[H3] OpenTelemetry & Prometheus-native
Connect metrics in minutes using existing open-source collectors.
Replaces
[H2]
Error tracking
Explore error tracking
[H3] Made for Slack, Linear, Microsoft Teams, and Jira
Integrate with tools you already use to get alerted with rich contextual notifications. Need an urgent fix? Leverage the built-in incident management.
[H3] Compatible with Sentry SDKs
Track errors from 100+ platforms with the industry-standard Sentry SDKs.
[H3] Integrate with Claude Code or Cursor
Integrate Better Stack in seconds with a single prompt. Copy, run, and start tracking errors with Better Stack.
[H3] Terraform, API, and MCP server
Integrate new apps with Terraform and investigate errors with MCP.
[H3] Configurable exception grouping
Have a non-standard stack and want to group exceptions in an atypical way? We got you covered.
[H2]
Error tracking
Explore error tracking
[H3] Slack, Linear, MS Teams, Jira
Get alerted with rich notifications. Need an urgent fix? Leverage the built-in incident management.
[H3] Compatible with Sentry SDKs
Track errors from 100+ platforms with the industry-standard Sentry SDKs.
[H3] Integrate with Claude Code or Cursor
Integrate Better Stack in seconds with a single prompt. Copy, run, and start tracking errors with Better Stack.
[H3] Terraform, API, and MCP server
Integrate new apps with Terraform and investigate errors with MCP.
[H3] Configurable exception grouping
Have a non-standard stack and want to group exceptions in an atypical way? We got you covered.
Replaces
[H2]
Real user monitoring
Explore real user monitoring
[H3] Session replay
See how users interact with your product. Watch at 2x speed, skip pauses, filter for rage indicators.
[H3] Auto-capture user events
Collect clicks, form fills, and rage clicks with a single code snippet.
[H3] Product analytics with event funnels
See what parts of the critical path of your onboarding need improving by evaluating user actions step-by-step.
[H3] Correlate frontend with backend
See web events alongside backend traces and other log events.
[H3] Track web vitals
See Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, and Interaction to Next Paint segmented per URL.
[H3] Real-time website analytics at scale
Are you getting more visitors from ChatGPT or Gemini?
[H2]
Real user monitoring
Explore real user monitoring
[H3] Session replay
See how users interact with your product. Watch at 2x speed, skip pauses, filter for rage indicators.
[H3] Auto-capture user events
Collect clicks, form fills, and rage clicks with a single code snippet.
[H3] Product analytics with event funnels
See what parts of the critical path of your onboarding need improving by evaluating user actions step-by-step.
[H3] Correlate frontend with backend
See web events alongside backend traces and other log events.
[H3] Track web vitals
See Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, and Interaction to Next Paint segmented per URL.
[H3] Real-time website analytics at scale
Are you getting more visitors from ChatGPT or Gemini?
Replaces
[H2]
Status page
Explore status pages
[H3] Branded page on your own sub-domain
Beautifully designed status page. Fully customizable with CSS and Javascript.
[H3] Subscribe to status page updates
Send automated updates to your customers when incident occurs. Let your customers subscribe to the entire status page or just selected components.
[H3] Translated into any language
Be perceived as a local by your foreign customers. Customize every translation.
[H3] Embed custom charts
Show pre-built charts with response times or add custom metrics with advanced visualizations directly to your status page.
[H2]
Status page
Explore status pages
[H3] Branded page on your own sub-domain
Beautifully designed status page. Fully customizable with CSS and Javascript.
[H3] Subscribe to status page updates
Send automated updates to your customers when incident occurs. Let your customers subscribe to the entire status page or just selected components.
[H3] Translated into any language
Be perceived as a local by your foreign customers. Customize every translation.
[H3] Embed custom charts
Show pre-built charts with response times or add custom metrics with advanced visualizations directly to your status page.
Replaces
[H2]
Happy customers, growing market presence
Ship higher-quality software faster. Be the hero of your engineering teams.
Start monitoring for free or
book a demo
[H4]
Don’t just take our word for it
We're proud to be working with publicly traded companies as well as individual indie hackers and are thankful for their feedback, suggestions, and support.
@BetterStackHQ
is one of the best products I've ever used. Went from 0-100 on logging in 15 minutes. Incredible
Conor
@cnrstvns
I tested
@BetterStackHQ
for @gamubsapp! So much easier to configure and the interface is better than @FreshworksInc!
Quentin
@glaffont
@BetterStackHQ
status page looks SO neat! A fantastic tool for SaaS products like @Snapodcast
TonyHe
@ttttonyhe
By far
@BetterStackHQ
has given me more pleasant surprises other tool in this space. We had an outage due to a domain name
expiring, and it turns out we can even be alered about that. Great user experience and UI on top of all the features.
How is it not more popular?
John
@johncjago
One year one tool. @linear won my heart last year. This year so far,
@BetterStackHQ
is the frontrunner, well designed ?
Tianzhou
@tianzhouchen
I just checked this out, and have never been so happy that I saw an ad ?
Chris
@chrishow
Looking for a status page? I recommend
@BetterStackHQ.
Perfect support, answered my dms
in a couple of minutes, and it's the first actual cool looking status page which allows
custom domains (on the free plan ?) haven't actually tried it, but it looks good so far.
#NotSponsor
NeverLand
@neverlandoff
Switched from @Statuspage to
@BetterStackHQ
over the week end, looking pretty good status.speakbox.ca
Valentin Prugnaud ?
@valentinprgnd
What are you using for logging and incident management?
For me the go to is currently
@BetterStackHQ
- love their simplicity and
p

[H1]
Incident management designed for 2026
AI-native incident management with built-in on-call and status pages in one beautifully made product.
Looking for an enterprise solution?
Book a demo
Relied on by the world’s best engineering teams
[H2]
Get an AI SRE
Claude Code with the knowledge of your infrastructure.
Give LLMs the power of your telemetry data.
Watch a demo
[H3]
Get an AI SRE to resolve
incidents with you at 3 am
Leverage automated root cause analysis based on the eBPF-based service map & log analysis. You’re always in charge.
Did the HTTP latency increase in eu-west too or just in us-east and us-west?
[H4]
Robust MCP server
Integrate your telemetry data into your existing LLM workflows with a top tier MCP server.
[H4]
You’re always in control
The AI SRE suggests hypotheses but never takes any automated actions without your approval. Get help when investigating an incident while remaining in charge.
[H2]
No need to leave Slack
Focus on resolving the incident instead of replying to “what’s the latest?” in #engineering.
[H3]
Create, acknowledge and resolve incidents directly from Slack
We automatically sync all events between Slack and the Better Stack dashboard.
[H4]
Runbooks & workflows
Post a todo list when a new incident is triggered. Route the incident to the right responder.
[H4]
Instant birds-eye view with rich integrations
No need to open 3rd party monitoring tools. Understand what’s happening right away.
[H2]
On-call scheduling built‑in
Alert the right people at the right time. Easy to setup, easier to maintain.
[H3] Ask a colleague to cover for you
Are you on-call but will be unavailable on a last minute? Ask a colleague to cover for you with a single click on the “Request cover” button.
[H3] Create overrides with a single click
Adjust on-call shifts on the go anywhere, anytime.
[H4]
Pre-fill on-call rotations
Leverage one of our standard rotation schedules to instantly pre-fill your on-call calendar.
[H4]
Integrate with Google & Outlook calendar
Manage on-call schedules from our built-in web interface or keep them in a shared Google calendar.
[H2]
Status page built‑in
Build trust with every incident and reduce the number of customer service tickets.
[H3]
Embed interactive charts
Leverage pre-built response time charts or add custom metrics with advanced visualizations directly to your status page.
[H4]
Custom status.yourdomain.com
Host a branded status page on your own custom subdomain and build confidence in your brand.
We automatically sync all events between Slack and the Better Stack dashboard.
[H4]
Have customers subscribe to updates
Let your customers subscribe to e-mail updates removing the need to reach out to you individually.
[H2]
Escalation policies, workflows, and runbooks
Alert the right person on the team, every time.
No more unnecessary cross-team escalations.
[H3]
Tie services to the right teams with catalog
Attach business knowledge to all incidents for more granular reporting and escalation rules with catalog and metadata.
[H4]
Escalation policies & workflows
Bring in the right people. Assign incident roles and ensure clarity and accountability.
[H4]
Track segmented MTTR, MTTA and everything else
Robust one-click reporting on your team's performance with a flexible data export.
[H2]
AI as a first-class citizen
Remove noise to focus on what actually makes a difference.
[H3]
Smart incident merging
10 incidents created at the same time? Acknowledge them all with a single click and stop your phone from ringing.
[H4]
Explain with AI
Analyze MTR, trace route, SSL certificates, and connection errors with LLMs with a single click.
[H4]
AI-written post-mortems
Don't enjoy writing post-mortems? We leverage the channel history and incident timeline to draft it for you.
[H2]
Everything you need to ship higher-quality software faster
[H4]
The most reliable uptime monitoring
Get a screenshot of the error and a second-by-second timeline with our fastest 30-second checks.
[H4]
Log management
Collect logs across services with Vector, Syslog or OpenTelemetry with our reimagined log management.
[H4]
Metrics
Integrate in minutes with Prometheus or OpenTelemetry, or create custom metrics directly from your logs.
[H4]
Playwright checks
Run tests with a real Chrome browser instance with a JavaScript runtime.
[H4]
Tracing
OpenTelemetry-native tracing with eBPF instrumentation.
[H4]
Error tracking
Catch bugs, get root cause of every error, and create tickets on autopilot.
[H2]
Happy customers, growing market presence
Ship higher-quality software faster. Be the hero of your engineering teams.
[H4]
Don’t just take our word for it
We're proud to be working with publicly traded companies as well as individual indie hackers and are thankful for their feedback, suggestions, and support.
@BetterStackHQ
is one of the best products I've ever used. Went from 0-100 on logging in 15 minutes. Incredible
Conor
@cnrstvns
I tested
@BetterStackHQ
for @gamubsapp! So much easier to configure and the interface is better than @FreshworksInc!
Quentin
@glaffont
@BetterStackHQ
status page looks SO neat! A fantastic tool for SaaS products like @Snapodcast
TonyHe
@ttttonyhe
By far
@BetterStackHQ
has given me more pleasant surprises other tool in this space. We had an outage due to a domain name
expiring, and it turns out we can even be alered about that. Great user experience and UI on top of all the features.
How is it not more popular?
John
@johncjago
One year one tool. @linear won my heart last year. This year so far,
@BetterStackHQ
is the frontrunner, well designed ?
Tianzhou
@tianzhouchen
I just checked this out, and have never been so happy that I saw an ad ?
Chris
@chrishow
Looking for a status page? I recommend
@BetterStackHQ.
Perfect support, answered my dms
in a couple of minutes, and it's the first actual cool looking status page which allows
custom domains (on the free plan ?) haven't actually tried it, but it looks good so far.
#NotSponsor
NeverLand
@neverlandoff
Switched from @Statuspage to
@BetterStackHQ
over the week end, looking pretty good status.speakbox.ca
Valentin Prugnaud ?
@valentinprgnd
What are you using for logging and incident management?
For me the go to is currently
@BetterStackHQ
- love their simplicity and
powerful features. Would like to learn more about what's out there.
Markus Leimer
@markuslei22
I'm utterly blown away by
@BetterStackHQ!
They do everything. I'm now monitoring one of our US servers
for every kind of log Ubuntu creates, custom alerts for errors, website downtime, incident logging, Slack notifications,
S3 log storage, and loads more. ?
Darren Pinder
@dmpinder
I absolutely love services like
@BetterStackHQ
simple, does a great job, and has a generous free plan for companies just starting out
I don't remember finding anything even close to it ~4 years ago when i was
looking for a monitoring tool for one of my projects
kostya
@nstkostyal
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[H2]
Try it risk free in minutes
AI-native incident management with built-in on-call and status pages in one beautifully made product.
Start monitoring for free or
book a demo

[H1]
Tracing reimagined with eBPF & OpenTelemetry
30x cheaper than Datadog. Predictable pricing.
Exceptional customer support.
Datadog bill too high? Migrate today, the rest of your contract is on us.
Migration assistance and bespoke onboarding included.
Book a consultation
Relied on by the world’s best engineering teams
[H2]
At a fraction of
your current costs
Get an unrivaled price-to-performance ratio. Forget sampling and ingest all your data or decrease your costs by 80x.
Explore pricing
Ingest up to
80x more data
with the same budget
or save up to
98%
of your costs
1 TB
traces per month
1 TB
logs per month
1 TB
metrics per month
Datadog
approx.
$55,574
per month
Better Stack
$687
per month
An estimate only. Assumes annual payments, European data location, 1 responder with a Tera bundle, the average event size of 1 kB, $5 per 100 Datadog's "custom metrics".
Assumes 1,000 Datadog "custom metrics" equivalent to 1 GB metrics. Further assumes Datadog's $0.1 per ingested GB of spans & logs, and $2.5/million indexed spans & logs for 30 days.
Adds up to $51,200 for metrics, $2,787 for logs, and $2,787 for spans per month.
[H2]
Instrument clusters without code changes thanks to eBPF
Connect your Kubernetes or Docker clusters to gather logs, metrics, and network traces with eBPF. No code changes required.
[H3]
Ship logs with our remotely controlled eBPF collectors
Leverage our remotely controlled collector to gather logs, metrics, and traces using eBPF and OpenTelemetry. Remotely monitor collector’s throughput and adjust sampling, compression, and batching as needed.
[H4]
Databases auto-instrumented automatically
Collector automatically recognizes databases
running in your cluster. Monitor the internals of your PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Memcached or
MongoDB out-of-box.
[H4]
Transform wide events with VRL
Transform logs, spans or other wide events to redact personally identifiable information or simply discard useless events so that you don’t get billed.
[H2]
Get an AI SRE
Claude Code with the knowledge of your infrastructure.
Give LLMs the power of your telemetry data.
Watch a demo
[H3]
Get an AI SRE to resolve
incidents with you at 3 am
Leverage automated root cause analysis based on the eBPF-based service map & log analysis. You’re always in charge.
Did the HTTP latency increase in eu-west too or just in us-east and us-west?
[H4]
Robust MCP server
Integrate your telemetry data into your existing LLM workflows with a top tier MCP server.
[H4]
You’re always in control
The AI SRE suggests hypotheses but never takes any automated actions without your approval. Get help when investigating an incident while remaining in charge.
[H2]
Built for OpenTelemetry
Future-proof your applications with OpenTelemetry-native observability. Retain the option to change vendors, and optimize costs as needed. You’re in charge.
[H3]
Explore with “bubble up”
Investigate slow requests visually with drag & drop. Simply select the right services and timeframe to instantly see the root cause of slow requests.
[H4]
eBPF-based service map
Monitor network flows, auto-instrument databases, and track SLOs of individual services. Everything out-of-box with the Better Stack collector.
[H4]
Sophisticated anomaly detection
Leverage our recommended alerts or the automated anomaly detection and get alerted via Slack, e-mail, phone, SMS, and more. Incident management & on-call is built-in.
[H3]
Request breakdown, Apdex, and RED metrics
Everything you need to understand the overall health of a service in a single dashboard.
[H2]
Ingest JSON wide events at scale, get sub-second analytical queries
Powered by a purpose-built data processing pipeline able to process petabytes to exabytes of JSON wide events without cardinality limitations. Get sub-second dashboards, versatile querying APIs at an unbeatable unit cost.
[H3]
Wide events & time series
Get the best of both worlds: scalability and cost-efficiency of JSON wide events stored in object storage, and fast analytical queries with highly compressed time series stored on local NVMe SSD drives.
Learn more
[H4]
Available in 4 regions, custom deployments on request
Use self-serve clusters in Virginia, Oregon, Germany or Singapore or
request a custom cluster
with a dedicated S3 bucket in your own VPC.
[H4]
Run any SQL queries via an HTTP API
Think of Better Stack as a data warehouse. Your data is yours. Host them in your own S3 bucket and run arbitrary SQL queries via our HTTP API.
Relied on by the world’s best engineering teams
[H2]
Happy customers, growing market presence
Instrument your clusters today. Try Better Stack risk-free with our 60-day money-back guarantee.
Ship higher-quality software faster. Be the hero of your engineering teams.
Looking for an enterprise solution?
Book a demo

[H1]
OpenTelemetry-native log management
30x cheaper than Datadog. Predictable pricing.
Exceptional customer support.
Datadog bill too high? Migrate today, the rest of your contract is on us.
Migration assistance and bespoke onboarding included.
Book a consultation
Relied on by the world’s best engineering teams
[H2]
At a fraction of
your current costs
Get an unrivaled price-to-performance ratio. Forget sampling and ingest all your data or decrease your costs by 80x.
Explore pricing
Ingest up to
80x more data
with the same budget
or save up to
98%
of your costs
1 TB
traces per month
1 TB
logs per month
1 TB
metrics per month
Datadog
approx.
$55,574
per month
Better Stack
$687
per month
An estimate only. Assumes annual payments, European data location, 1 responder with a Tera bundle, the average event size of 1 kB, $5 per 100 Datadog's "custom metrics".
Assumes 1,000 Datadog "custom metrics" equivalent to 1 GB metrics. Further assumes Datadog's $0.1 per ingested GB of spans & logs, and $2.5/million indexed spans & logs for 30 days.
Adds up to $51,200 for metrics, $2,787 for logs, and $2,787 for spans per month.
[H2]
Get an AI SRE
Claude Code with the knowledge of your infrastructure.
Give LLMs the power of your telemetry data.
Watch a demo
[H3]
Get an AI SRE to resolve
incidents with you at 3 am
Leverage automated root cause analysis based on the eBPF-based service map & log analysis. You’re always in charge.
Did the HTTP latency increase in eu-west too or just in us-east and us-west?
[H4]
Robust MCP server
Integrate your telemetry data into your existing LLM workflows with a top tier MCP server.
[H4]
You’re always in control
The AI SRE suggests hypotheses but never takes any automated actions without your approval. Get help when investigating an incident while remaining in charge.
[H2]
Instrument clusters without code changes thanks to eBPF
Connect your Kubernetes or Docker clusters to gather logs, metrics, and network traces with eBPF. No code changes required.
[H3]
Ship logs with our remotely controlled eBPF collectors
Leverage our remotely controlled collector to gather logs, metrics, and traces using eBPF and OpenTelemetry. Remotely monitor collector’s throughput and adjust sampling, compression, and batching as needed.
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Turning plaintext logs into structured JSON
All your data is stored in a structured format, which makes searching beautifully simple. Click on the
user e-mail or thread ID and filter the right context
with a single click.
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Mark useless logs “as spam” and don’t get billed
Transform logs, spans or other wide events with VRL to redact personally identifiable information or simply discard useless events so that you don’t get billed.
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Built for OpenTelemetry
Future-proof your applications with OpenTelemetry-native observability. Retain the option to change vendors, and optimize costs as needed. You’re in charge.
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Explore with “bubble up”
Investigate slow requests visually with drag & drop. Simply select the right services and timeframe to instantly see the root cause of slow requests.
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eBPF-based service map
Monitor network flows, auto-instrument databases, and track SLOs of individual services. Everything out-of-box with the Better Stack collector.
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Sophisticated anomaly detection
Leverage our recommended alerts or the automated anomaly detection and get alerted via Slack, e-mail, phone, SMS, and more. Incident management & on-call is built-in.
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Request breakdown, Apdex, and RED metrics
Everything you need to understand the overall health of a service in a single dashboard.
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Powerful log analysis at scale
Aggregate all your logs as structured data and query them using Live tail filtering, an intuitive drag & drop builder, SQL or PromQL.
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Custom dashboards with a
Drag & drop query builder
Drag & drop the metrics you want to display and visualize them instantly. No SQL code necessary.
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Analyze with SQL or PromQL
Get answers fast with a powerful SQL and PromQL query builders. No need to learn a new querying language or ask your data analyst.
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One-click pattern filtering
Spot trends instantly with automatic pattern detection. Group similar logs, filter or exclude patterns in a single click, cut through the noise, and debug faster.
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Sample raw logs during query time
Analyze trends with ad-hoc queries on large data sets with our built-in sampling.
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Ingest JSON wide events at scale, get sub-second analytical queries
Powered by a purpose-built data processing pipeline able to process petabytes to exabytes of JSON wide events without cardinality limitations. Get sub-second dashboards, versatile querying APIs at an unbeatable unit cost.
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Wide events & time series
Get the best of both worlds: scalability and cost-efficiency of JSON wide events stored in object storage, and fast analytical queries with highly compressed time series stored on local NVMe SSD drives.
Learn more
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Available in 4 regions, custom deployments on request
Use self-serve clusters in Virginia, Oregon, Germany or Singapore or
request a custom cluster
with a dedicated S3 bucket in your own VPC.
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Run any SQL queries via an HTTP API
Think of Better Stack as a data warehouse. Your data is yours. Host them in your own S3 bucket and run arbitrary SQL queries via our HTTP API.
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No more rehydration or cold storage
Customize retention per source to retain and query everything you want. No need to archive your logs to S3 anymore. Search all your logs anytime.
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No more rehydration or cold storage
Customize retention per source to retain and query everything you want. No need to archive your logs to S3 anymore. Search all your logs anytime.
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Everything you need to ship higher-quality software faster
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The most reliable uptime monitoring
Get a screenshot of the error and a second-by-second timeline with our fastest 30-second checks.
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Log management
Collect logs across services with Vector, Syslog or OpenTelemetry with our reimagined log management.
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Metrics
Integrate in minutes with Prometheus or OpenTelemetry, or create custom metrics directly from your logs.
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Playwright checks
Run tests with a real Chrome browser instance with a JavaScript runtime.
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Tracing
OpenTelemetry-native tracing with eBPF instrumentation.
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Error tracking
Catch bugs, get root cause of every error, and create tickets on autopilot.
Relied on by the world’s best engineering teams
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Happy customers, growing market presence
Instrument your clusters today. Try Better Stack risk-free with our 60-day money-back guarantee.
Ship higher-quality software faster. Be the hero of your engineering teams.
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