Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Better Stack vs Sentry: which is more reliable? (2026)
Better Stack is more reliable than Sentry, scoring 64.7 vs 54.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Better Stack reported 5 incidents and Sentry reported 23, with effective uptime of 99.61% and 98.93% respectively. Sentry resolves incidents faster on average (2h 21m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Better Stack | Sentry |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 64.7 | 54.9 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #12 | #14 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.61% | 98.93% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 23 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 15 |
| Avg time to resolve | 18h 4m | 2h 21m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Better Stack and Sentry differ
- Sentry reported 4.6× as many incidents as Better Stack over the last 90 days (23 vs 5).
- Sentry had 15 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Better Stack.
- Sentry fixes problems faster: 2h 21m on average, against 18h 4m for Better Stack (7.7× quicker).
- Better Stack's longest outage on record lasted 2h (Jun 15, 2026); Sentry's lasted 6h 18m (Aug 27, 2026).
90-day uptime
Better Stack
Sentry
- 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 Sentry incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 21m
Increased latency processing integration webhooks
Affected: Slack, Integration Pipeline
- Major outageOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 1h
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 3h 18m
- Major outageOct 19, 2026 · resolved in 53m
- Partial outageOct 14, 2026 · resolved in 2h 34m
- Major outageOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 42m
Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- Rollbar · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- Checkly · #3 · 99.96% uptime
- New Relic · #4 · 99.92% uptime
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