Better Stack

Better Stack is a Czech observability platform founded in 2021 in Prague, offering a unified solution for uptime monitoring, log management, incident management, and status pages. The company was created with the vision of combining previously fragmented monitoring and incident response tools into a single, beautifully designed platform that development teams actually enjoy using. Despite being a newer entrant, Better Stack has rapidly gained adoption among startups and growing tech companies attracted by its modern design, developer-friendly approach, and competitive pricing.

The platform provides comprehensive uptime monitoring with checks from multiple global locations, structured log management with fast search and alerting, a full incident management workflow with on-call scheduling and escalation policies, and public status pages for transparent communication with users during outages. Better Stack supports heartbeat monitoring for cron jobs and background processes, integrates with dozens of tools including Slack, PagerDuty, and Terraform, and offers a well-documented API for custom integrations. Its dashboard consolidates all monitoring signals into a single view, eliminating the need to switch between multiple tools.

Headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, Better Stack hosts its European customers' data within EU data centers and operates in full compliance with GDPR requirements. The platform offers a generous free tier that includes basic uptime monitoring and incident management, making it accessible to teams of all sizes. For European engineering teams looking for a GDPR-compliant, all-in-one alternative to the combination of Datadog for monitoring, PagerDuty for incidents, and Splunk for logs, Better Stack provides a unified, modern platform that replaces multiple US-based tools with a single European solution.