# Tracing reimagined with eBPF & OpenTelemetry

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)

## Instrument clusters without code changes thanks to eBPF

Connect your Kubernetes or Docker clusters to gather logs, metrics, and network traces with eBPF. No code changes required.

### Ship logs with our remotely controlled eBPF collectors

Leverage our remotely controlled collector to gather logs, metrics, and traces using eBPF and OpenTelemetry. Remotely monitor collector’s throughput and adjust sampling, compression, and batching as needed.

#### Databases auto-instrumented automatically

Collector automatically recognizes databases  
running in your cluster. Monitor the internals of your PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Memcached or  
MongoDB out-of-box.

#### Transform wide events with VRL

Transform logs, spans or other wide events to redact personally identifiable information or simply discard useless events so that you don’t get billed.

## 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.

## Built for OpenTelemetry

Future-proof your applications with OpenTelemetry-native observability. Retain the option to change vendors, and optimize costs as needed. You’re in charge.

### Explore with “bubble up”

Investigate slow requests visually with drag & drop. Simply select the right services and timeframe to instantly see the root cause of slow requests.

#### eBPF-based service map

Monitor network flows, auto-instrument databases, and track SLOs of individual services. Everything out-of-box with the Better Stack collector.

#### Sophisticated anomaly detection

Leverage our recommended alerts or the automated anomaly detection and get alerted via Slack, e-mail, phone, SMS, and more. Incident management & on-call is built-in.

### Request breakdown, Apdex, and RED metrics

Everything you need to understand the overall health of a service in a single dashboard.

## Ingest JSON wide events at scale, get sub-second analytical queries

Powered by a purpose-built data processing pipeline able to process petabytes to exabytes of JSON wide events without cardinality limitations. Get sub-second dashboards, versatile querying APIs at an unbeatable unit cost.

### Wide events & time series

Get the best of both worlds: scalability and cost-efficiency of JSON wide events stored in object storage, and fast analytical queries with highly compressed time series stored on local NVMe SSD drives.

[Learn more](https://betterstack.com/docs/logs/wide-events-time-series/)

#### Available in 4 regions, custom deployments on request

Use self-serve clusters in Virginia, Oregon, Germany or Singapore or [request a custom cluster](mailto:hello@betterstack.com?subject=I%27m%20interested%20in%20custom%20deployment&body=Monthly%20volume%3A%202%20PB%0ALocation%3A%20us-east%0ACompliance%3A%20SOC2%0ACustom%20bucket%3A%20yes%0A%0AAnything%20else%3A) with a dedicated S3 bucket in your own VPC.

#### Run any SQL queries via an HTTP API

Think of Better Stack as a data warehouse. Your data is yours. Host them in your own S3 bucket and run arbitrary SQL queries via our HTTP API.

## 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)