Monitoring · facts read November 6, 2026
Better Stack
Uptime monitoring, status pages, on-call and log management. Uptime checks and a status page, with logs in the same place.
- Free plan
- Free: 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page, 3 GB logs per month kept 3 days.
- Paid from
- Responder seat: $29/month billed yearly ($34 monthly); telemetry bundles from $25/month.
- Monthly cost at 1,000 users
- $0/month Free covers 10 monitors.
- Free plan allows commercial use
- Not stated
- Open source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
Source: Better Stack pricing, read November 6, 2026. Prices change; check the vendor's page before you commit.
Best for
- Uptime monitoring and a public status page
- Log search
Watch out for
- The free plan is described as for personal projects.
How Cuely scores Better Stack
The published scores, from −3 to +3, that decide when Cuely picks it. Method
- +2background jobs or long-running servers. Heartbeats catch silent failures in jobs and workers.
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