Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Better Stack vs Checkly: which is more reliable? (2026)
Checkly is more reliable than Better Stack, scoring 91.1 vs 64.7 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Better Stack reported 5 incidents and Checkly reported 6, with effective uptime of 99.61% and 99.96% respectively. Checkly resolves incidents faster on average (1h 54m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Better Stack | Checkly |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 64.7 | 91.1 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #11 | #4 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.61% | 99.96% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 6 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 18h 4m | 1h 54m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Better Stack and Checkly differ
- Checkly reported 20% more incidents than Better Stack over the last 90 days (6 vs 5).
- Better Stack had 1 partial or major outage, compared with 0 for Checkly.
- Checkly fixes problems faster: 1h 54m on average, against 18h 4m for Better Stack (9.5× quicker).
- Better Stack's longest outage on record lasted 2h (Jun 15, 2026); Checkly's lasted 3h 10m (Oct 7, 2026).
90-day uptime
Better Stack
Checkly
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Better Stack incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 39m
- Degraded performanceSep 4, 2026 · resolved in 2d 5h
- Degraded performanceSep 3, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceAug 27, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Maintenance: Migrating some Telemetry sources to new infrastructure
- Major outageAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 9m
Recent Checkly incidents
- Degraded performanceNov 1, 2026 · resolved in 1h 40m
- Degraded performanceOct 7, 2026 · resolved in 3h 10m
- Degraded performanceOct 5, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceSep 23, 2026 · resolved in 53m
Performance Degradation for Playwright Check Suites in us-east-1
- Degraded performanceSep 18, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceAug 10, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
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Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- Rollbar · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- New Relic · #3 · 99.93% uptime
- UptimeRobot · #5 · 99.93% uptime
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