Better Stack is a robust platform that provides full-stack observability, enabling teams to visualize their entire infrastructure, aggregate logs into structured data, and query them using SQL. It offers log management with high-speed search capabilities, beautifully designed observability dashboards, and uptime monitoring for various services including SSL, ports, and DNS. The platform also includes incident management features, allowing for scheduled on-call rotations and alerting through multiple channels. Better Stack emphasizes its speed, claiming to be 10x faster than Elastic, and its affordability, touting a cost that is 17x cheaper than DataDog. It promotes collaboration within teams by allowing members to shadow each other and work together directly where the data resides. The platform is built with a focus on user experience, aiming to consolidate disparate tools into a single, integrated solution. Better Stack is trusted by top engineering teams and has a growing community of over 150,000 developers, contributing to open-source projects and technical articles.
