Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Better Stack vs PagerDuty: which is more reliable? (2026)
PagerDuty is more reliable than Better Stack, scoring 90.0 vs 64.7 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Better Stack reported 5 incidents and PagerDuty reported 0, with effective uptime of 99.61% and 100% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Better Stack | PagerDuty |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 64.7 | 90.0 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #11 | — |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.61% | 100% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 0 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 18h 4m | — |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 50/100 |
Where Better Stack and PagerDuty differ
- PagerDuty reported no incidents in the last 90 days, while Better Stack reported 5.
- Better Stack had 1 partial or major outage, compared with 0 for PagerDuty.
90-day uptime
Better Stack
PagerDuty
- 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 PagerDuty incidents
No incidents reported by PagerDuty in the last 90 days.
Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- Rollbar · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- New Relic · #3 · 99.93% uptime
- Checkly · #4 · 99.96% uptime
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