Better Stack

Better Stack is an observability platform marketed as a significantly cheaper alternative to Datadog, claiming to allow customers to ingest up to 80 times more data for the same budget or save up to 98% of costs. The platform consolidates multiple observability and incident management functions into a single interface, including log management with SQL querying and pattern filtering, eBPF-based distributed tracing, infrastructure monitoring with anomaly detection, real-time user monitoring with session replay, and uptime monitoring with screenshots and traceroute diagnostics. The platform includes incident management features such as smart incident merging to consolidate multiple simultaneous alerts, and AI-powered capabilities including automated root cause analysis, AI-generated post-mortems based on incident timelines, and agentic AI for infrastructure troubleshooting. Error tracking is compatible with Sentry SDKs, and the platform integrates with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, and Jira. Better Stack also offers customisable status pages for customer notifications and an MCP server for integration with LLM workflows. Whilst the core product is positioned as a cost-efficient replacement for Datadog's logging and monitoring, it operates on a usage-based pricing model across multiple service categories. The platform is browser-based with mobile apps for iOS and Android, and supports infrastructure-as-code deployment via Terraform. Enterprise authentication options include SSO with AWS, Azure and Okta.