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Jenda
JendaBetter Stack
#19in MonitoringWhat is Better Stack?
Better Stack is a radically better infrastructure monitoring platform that calls the right person on your team if anything goes wrong. Schedule on-call duties, receive helpful alerts, and collaborate on solving incidents faster than ever.
Better Stack is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Uptime monitoring — get a phone call, text, and email when your website goes downSub-minute and multi-location checks — sampling interval of 30 seconds from multiple locations ensures you get notified quickly2,000+ Integrations — integrate with thousands of apps you already use like Heroku, Datadog, Grafana, Slack, and PagerDutyDebug info with every alert — receive helpful debug info when an incident happens (error logs, screenshots)On-call management — easily schedule on-call duties directly from Google Calendar and Microsoft OutlookIncident escalations — if your on-call person doesn't respond, the whole team gets notifiedEasy configuration — it takes just 5 minutes to set up
Better Stack Pros & Cons
Pros of Better Stack
- ✓Incident timeline
- ✓Error page screenshots
- ✓Slack integration
- ✓On-call duty scheduling
- ✓Very reliable
- ✓Detailed reports
- ✓Phone call alerts
- ✓Easy setup
- ✓Calendar integration
- ✓Multi-location checks
Cons of Better Stack
No cons listed yet.
Better Stack Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Better Stack?
Pingdom
Pingdom is an uptime monitoring service. When problems happen with a site that Pingdom monitors, it immediately alerts the owner so the problem can be taken care of.
UptimeRobot
It is all about helping you to keep your websites up. It monitors your websites every 5 minutes and alerts you if your sites are down.
StatusCake
Monitoring a website is one thing – finding the best way to alert you to downtime another. At StatusCake we give you as many options as possible to decide when & how often you’re contacted. Whether it’s by email, SMS, push notifications for iOS & Android or integration with third party apps including Zapier and PagerDuty – you decide how you want to be alerted and when!
