# Infrastructure monitoring costs morethan the infra?

30x cheaper than Datadog. Predictable pricing.  
Exceptional customer support.

## At a fraction of your current costs

Get an unrivaled price-to-performance ratio. Forget sampling and ingest all your data or decrease your costs by 80x.

Ingest up to 80x more data with the same budget, or save up to 98% of your costs.

| Provider | 1 TB traces + 1 TB logs + 1 TB metrics per month |
| --- | --- |
| Datadog | approx. $55,574 per month |
| Better Stack | $687 per month |

_An estimate only. Assumes annual payments, European data location, 1 responder with a Tera bundle, the average event size of 1 kB. Further assumes Datadog's $0.1 per ingested GB of spans & logs, and $2.5/million indexed spans & logs for 30 days._

[Explore pricing](/pricing.md#logs)

## Get an AI SRE

Claude Code with the knowledge of your infrastructure.  
Give LLMs the power of your telemetry data.

[Watch a demo](https://betterstack.com/demos/ai-sre/)

### Get an AI SRE to resolve incidents with you at 3 am

Leverage automated root cause analysis based on the eBPF-based service map & log analysis. You’re always in charge.

#### Robust MCP server

Integrate your telemetry data into your existing LLM workflows with a top tier MCP server.

#### You’re always in control

The AI SRE suggests hypotheses but never takes any automated actions without your approval. Get help when investigating an incident while remaining in charge.

## Infinite scale, at self-hosted price

Better Stack delivers extremely fast, high-throughput log search and low-latency dashboards at the price of self-hosted Prometheus.

### Radical usage transparency

Never worry about getting a surprise bill again. Set billing alerts and spending limits and stay fully in control.

### Unlimited data retention

With 13 months default retention for all metrics, long-term storage was never easier.

Up to
200x cheaper
than Datadog
Enabled by a proprietary state-of-the-art data processing pipeline.

Secure

Control costs and usage while managing data storage and access. Stay secure and compliant under SOC 2, GDPR, and more.

SOC 2 Type 2

GDPR

## OpenTelemetry & Prometheus-native

Start in minutes using your existing metrics collectors, or create custom metrics directly from your logs.

[Browse integrations](/integrations.md)

## Dashboards you're used to

Use one of the many ready-made dashboards or create your own in just a few clicks.

### Single pane of glass

Query metrics across months of data from hundreds of clusters in seconds. Slice and dice your data to find issues at scale.

#### Query with Drag & drop, PromQL or SQL

Get answers fast with a powerful SQL query builder. No need to learn a new querying language or ask your data analyst.

#### Beautiful pre-built dashboards

Start in minutes with dashboard templates for the most popular services. Get actionable insights minutes after sending your first data.

#### Plays well with your self-hosted Grafana

No need to replace your existing Grafana on day one! Connect Better Stack as a Grafana source and enjoy an unmatched speed at a massive scale directly from your existing Grafana.

## Everything you need to ship higher-quality software faster

#### The most reliable uptime monitoring

Get a screenshot of the error and a second-by-second timeline with our fastest 30-second checks.

#### Log management

Collect logs across services with Vector, Syslog or OpenTelemetry with our reimagined log management.

#### Metrics

Integrate in minutes with Prometheus or OpenTelemetry, or create custom metrics directly from your logs.

#### Playwright checks

Run tests with a real Chrome browser instance with a JavaScript runtime.

#### Tracing

OpenTelemetry-native tracing with eBPF instrumentation.

#### Error tracking

Catch bugs, get root cause of every error, and create tickets on autopilot.

## Happy customers, growing market presence

Instrument your clusters today. Try Better Stack risk-free with our 60-day money-back guarantee.

Ship higher-quality software faster. Be the hero of your engineering teams.

Looking for an enterprise solution? [Book a demo](https://betterstack.com/book-a-demo)