Live status & reliability report

Better Stack status, outages & reliability

Better Stack is a monitoring platform that combines uptime checks, on-call alerting, status pages and log and telemetry management.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 90 days Better Stack had 99.61% effective uptime across 5 status page incidents (1 partial or major outage), resolving them in 18h 4m on average.

64.7/100Reliability scoreVisit Better Stack ↗

Is Better Stack down right now?

No, Better Stack is up and running.

  • Better Stack's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
  • All 3 Better Stack pages we check are responding. Checked .

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Uptime (90d)99.61%8h 15m weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)51.0 per 30 days
Major / partial outages1
Avg time to resolve18h 4m
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 4, 2026 – Aug 19, 2026: no incidentsAug 20, 2026: 99.37% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 21, 2026 – Aug 26, 2026: no incidentsAug 27, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 28, 2026 – Sep 2, 2026: no incidentsSep 3, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 4, 2026: 93.64% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 5, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 6, 2026: 87.98% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 7, 2026 – Oct 20, 2026: no incidentsOct 21, 2026: 99.58% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 22, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.617% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
  • Degraded
  • Partial outage
  • Major outage
  • No data

Key facts about Better Stack's reliability

  • Over the past 12 months, Better Stack published 16 incidents on its status page, 3 of them partial or major outages.
  • Its longest outage on record in that time was “AWS Direct Connect connection outage” on Jun 15, 2026, which lasted 2h.
  • Better Stack reported 5 incidents in the last 90 days, down from 6 in the 90 days before.
  • Incidents most often began on a Thursday (4 of 16, UTC).
  • Better Stack's 90-day uptime of 99.61% is above the average for monitoring & observability tools (99.01%).
  • It resolves incidents more slowly than the typical monitoring tool: 18h 4m on average, against a median of 2h 13m.

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
62
99.618% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
78
1.00 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
22
18h 4m average
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

01234Dec1 degraded performance incident1Jan ’261 degraded performance incident1FebMarApr2 degraded performance incidents2May1 partial outage incident1 degraded performance incident2Jun1 degraded performance incident1Jul1 major outage incident2 degraded performance incidents3Aug2 degraded performance incidents2Sep1 degraded performance incident1OctNov
  • Major outage
  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

Daily average response time of Better Stack's public pages, measured by our probes.

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

Score trend

Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

Better Stack incident history (last 90 days)

Source: Better Stack status page · last checked

Our independent monitoring

We check these public Better Stack pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
Sign-in pageUp 100%320 ms
HomepageUp 100%473 ms
Uptime API (unauthenticated)Up 100%131 ms

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Better Stack status FAQ

Is Better Stack down right now?

No, Better Stack is up and running. Better Stack's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 3 of the Better Stack pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.

How reliable is Better Stack?

Better Stack has a reliability score of 64.7 out of 100, ranking #11 of 15 monitoring & observability tools. Over the last 90 days it had 99.61% effective uptime.

How often does Better Stack have outages?

Better Stack published 5 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (1 partial or major outage) and 16 in the past 12 months.

How long do Better Stack outages last?

Better Stack resolves incidents in 18h 4m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 2h, on Jun 15, 2026.

Does Better Stack have a status page?

Yes. Better Stack's official status page is status.betterstack.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.