# Better Stack

Better Stack is an observability platform that combines logs, metrics, traces, error tracking, real user monitoring, uptime monitoring, incident management, on-call and status pages. It uses eBPF and OpenTelemetry to collect telemetry without code changes, and includes an AI SRE agent and an MCP server. The vendor says its pricing is up to 30x cheaper than Datadog for comparable data volumes.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/better-stack · data of 2026-11-03

## Facts

- Founded: 2021
- Headquarters: Prague, Czech Republic
- Employees: 11–50
- Company type: Private, venture-backed
- Latest funding: Series A-II
- Deployment: Cloud-hosted SaaS with data stored by default in EU regions, and US, Europe and Singapore data regions offered; custom cluster and custom VPC deployment available for enterprise accounts.
- Best for: Engineering and DevOps teams with high telemetry volumes who want to reduce observability costs, especially those looking to move off a large Datadog bill.
- Compliance: SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR

## Products

- Log management: Ingests raw logs, supports SQL, PromQL and drag-and-drop queries, and can store logs in the customer's own S3 bucket.
- Tracing: OpenTelemetry-native tracing with an eBPF-based service map and automatic database instrumentation.
- Metrics: Dashboards built from metrics collected by Prometheus or OpenTelemetry, or generated from logs.
- Infrastructure monitoring: Anomaly detection alerts on logs and metrics, without manually set thresholds.
- Incident management: Slack and Teams-based incident management with on-call scheduling, smart incident merging and AI post-mortems.
- AI SRE: Slack-native AI agent that investigates incidents using logs, metrics, traces and errors, with an MCP server.
- Uptime monitoring: External monitoring with multi-location checks, screenshots of errors, traceroute and Playwright transaction checks.
- Status pages: Branded public status pages with subscriber notifications and integrations.
- Error tracking: Sentry SDK-compatible exception tracking with release tracking and Linear and Jira integrations.
- Session replay and web events: Session replays and auto-captured web events for product and website analytics.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observability | 19 of 45 | 3.1 | 6 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 6.7 | 18.5% |
| google_ai_mode | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| perplexity | 2.6 | 3.7% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Better Stack AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/better-stack, data of 2026-11-03. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).