Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Better Stack vs Rollbar: which is more reliable? (2026)
Rollbar is more reliable than Better Stack, scoring 96.1 vs 64.7 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Better Stack reported 5 incidents and Rollbar reported 3, with effective uptime of 99.61% and 99.98% respectively. Rollbar resolves incidents faster on average (37m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Better Stack | Rollbar |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 64.7 | 96.1 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #12 | #1 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.61% | 99.98% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 3 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 18h 4m | 37m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Better Stack and Rollbar differ
- Better Stack reported 67% more incidents than Rollbar over the last 90 days (5 vs 3).
- Better Stack had 1 partial or major outage, compared with 0 for Rollbar.
- Rollbar fixes problems faster: 37m on average, against 18h 4m for Better Stack (29.1× quicker).
- Better Stack's longest outage on record lasted 2h (Jun 15, 2026); Rollbar's lasted 12h 9m (May 18, 2026).
90-day uptime
Better Stack
Rollbar
- 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 Rollbar incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 13m
Increased occurrence processing pipeline latency
Affected: Core Processing Pipeline, iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, Proguard processing pipeline
- MaintenanceOct 23, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com)
- MaintenanceOct 18, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Proguard processing pipeline, Homepage (rollbar.com), Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline +1 more
- MaintenanceOct 14, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Core Processing Pipeline
- MaintenanceSep 23, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Proguard processing pipeline, Homepage (rollbar.com), Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline +1 more
- MaintenanceSep 21, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Homepage (rollbar.com), Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com) +1 more
Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- New Relic · #3 · 99.93% uptime
- Checkly · #4 · 99.96% uptime
- UptimeRobot · #5 · 99.93% uptime
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