Uptime monitoring, incident management and status pages in one affordable product.
Better Stack combines fast uptime checks (down to 30-second intervals), on-call scheduling and escalation, hosted status pages and log management, with a design-led interface and pricing well below the enterprise incumbents. It is a common replacement for a Pingdom-plus-PagerDuty-plus-Statuspage stack.
Best for
From $29 per month (indicative)
Free tierFree tier: Free plan with 10 monitors at 3-minute intervals and a status page.
What drives the bill: Substantially cheaper than assembling Pingdom, PagerDuty and Statuspage separately.
Check current pricing on Better Stack’s siteFigures are indicative and were last reviewed August 2026. Vendors change pricing often; confirm before you commit.
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