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Get a phone call and a Slack message when your site goes down. Always alert the right person on your team.

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Why choose Better Stack vs. Pingdom

Key features
Pingdom
Better Stack
Phone call alerts
Unlimited
Check frequency
1 minute
30 seconds
Helpful alerts
provided
Built-in incident management
provided
On-call duty scheduling
provided
Manually triggered incidents
provided
Beautiful dashboard
provided
Designed for teams and enterprises
provided
Free tier included
Not anymore
provided
Loved by teams around the world

Software engineers from high-growth startups to Fortune 500 companies choose Better Stack.

Our customers include Canada, Decathlon, Huawei, IBM, SME, LTSE, Eset, Redis, Accenture, Sygic and Represent.

Uptime monitoring reimagined

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

Replaces

Replaces Pingdom, Statuscake and UptimeRobot
Screenshot of Better Stack's monitor page

Unlimited phone call alerts

As well as SMS, e-mail, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and push notifications with our all-you-can-alert pricing. Be the first one to know your site is down.

30s multi-location checks

Each HTTP and ping-based incident is verified from at least 3 locations before we alert you. No more false incidents!

Incident management built-in

Alert the right person on your team at the right time with our on-callscheduling plug in the services you already use including DataDog, and New Relic.

That's just the tip
of the iceberg

Screenshots & error logs

We don't just tell you that your service went down. We also tell you why.

Incident audit timeline

Get second-by-second timeline for every incident with detailed information about what happened and who got alerted.

Ping, SSL & TLD expiration

The most commonly used monitors come built-in and can be configured in a few seconds.

Smart incident merging

30 incidents get created at the same time? Acknowledge them with a single tap and keep your phone from ringing while fixing the issue.

Integrate everything

Plug in the services across all levels of your stack and get up and running in minutes, not days.

Cron job monitoring

Never lose a DB backup! Track your CRON jobs and serverless workers. Get alerted if they don't run correctly.

Save big with Better Stack

Better Stack replaces a bunch of existing tools. See how our fixed price for a team of 6 compares with PagerDuty, Pingdom, and Statuspage.io.

See pricing
PagerDuty

Incident management

+
Pingdom

Uptime monitoring

+
Statuspage.io

Branded status page

=
$ 525 /mo

$525/month for 6 team members and 200 monitors

Incident management with on-call
Uptime monitoring built-in
Branded status page on your own sub-domain status.domain.com
$ 230 /mo

$230/month for 6 team members and 200 monitors

Don’t just take our word for it

We're proud to be working with these incredible companies, and thankful for their feedback, suggestions, and support.

Looking for a status page? I recommend @BetterUptime. Perfect support, answered my dms in a couple of minutes, and it's the first actual cool looking status page which allows custom domains (on the free plan 😱) haven't actually tried it, but it looks good so far.

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NeverLand
@neverlandoff

I tested @BetterUptime for @gamubsapp! So much easier to configure and the interface is better than @FreshworksInc!

Quentin
@glaffont

By far @BetterUptime has given me more pleasant surprises other tool in this space. We had an outage due to a domain name expiring, and it turns out we can even be alerted about that. Great user experience and UI on top of all the features. How is it not more popular?

John
@johncjago

One year one tool. @linear won my heart last year. This year so far, @BetterStackHQ is the frontrunner, well designed 👏

Tianzhou
@tianzhouchen

I just checked this out, and have never been so happy that I saw an ad 👏

Chris
@chrishow
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