Better Stack
Better Stack is an infrastructure monitoring and observability platform that combines uptime monitoring, heartbeat monitoring for scheduled jobs, incident management with on-call paging and escalation policies, public and private status pages, log/trace/metric telemetry queried with ClickHouse SQL, error tracking with session replay, and an AI SRE for automated root cause analysis. It is OpenTelemetry-native on ingestion — OTLP/HTTP endpoints for logs, traces and metrics — and publishes three REST management surfaces (Uptime v2, Telemetry v1, Errors v1) declared in its own RFC 9727 /.well-known/api-catalog, alongside a first-party remote MCP server at mcp.betterstack.com exposing roughly 106 agent tools behind OAuth 2.1.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Better Stack the way a machine reads it — 36 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Better Stack scores 65.6/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 50/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Better Stack
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Better Stack. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 6
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Better Stack Heartbeats API
The Heartbeats API from Better Stack — create and manage heartbeat monitors that alert when a cron job or background task stops reporting.
Better Stack Incidents API
The Incidents API from Better Stack — create, acknowledge, escalate, resolve and reopen incidents, and read the incident timeline.
Better Stack Monitors API
The Monitors API from Better Stack — create and manage uptime monitors and read their availability and response-time series.
Better Stack Status Pages API
The Status Pages API from Better Stack — create and manage public and private status pages and the resources shown on them.
Better Stack Telemetry API
The Telemetry API from Better Stack — manage log, trace and metric sources, fields, metric expressions, dashboards, charts and chart alerts. Declared by Better Stack's own /.wel...
Better Stack Errors API
The Errors API from Better Stack — manage error-tracking applications, application groups and releases, and triage error patterns and exceptions. Declared by Better Stack's own ...
Open Collections 6
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONBetter Stack Uptime Heartbeats API
OPEN COLLECTIONBetter Stack Uptime Heartbeats Incidents API
OPEN COLLECTIONBetter Stack Uptime Heartbeats Monitors API
OPEN COLLECTIONBetter Stack Uptime Heartbeats Status Pages API
OPEN COLLECTIONBetter Stack Uptime API
OPEN COLLECTIONMCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Better Stack MCP Server
Better Stack ships a first-party remote MCP server that fronts the Uptime, Telemetry (logs/traces/metrics) and Error Tracking products, plus a documentation search tool and team...
MCP SERVERPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Betterstack Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Betterstack Finops
FINOPSFeatures 8
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Uptime Monitoring
Monitor URLs, APIs, and services for availability with global region checks.
Heartbeat Monitoring
Monitor scheduled jobs and cron tasks with heartbeat pings.
Incident Management
On-call alerting with escalation policies, acknowledgement, and resolution workflows.
Status Pages
Public and private status pages with custom domains and real-time component status.
Log Management
Collect, search, and visualize logs across your infrastructure stack.
Error Tracking
Two-layer error tracking — deduplicated error patterns over individual exceptions — with session replay.
AI SRE
AI-powered root cause analysis for automated incident investigation.
MCP Server
First-party remote MCP server at mcp.betterstack.com exposing ~106 agent tools across Uptime, Telemetry and Errors behind OAuth 2.1.
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Event Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Betterstack Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Integrations 5
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Slack
Receive incident alerts in Slack channels.
Microsoft Teams
Run incident management from initial report to resolution inside Teams.
PagerDuty
Forward incidents to PagerDuty.
Terraform
Manage Better Stack resources as infrastructure as code via the first-party BetterStackHQ providers.
OpenTelemetry
Send logs, metrics and traces over OTLP/HTTP to $INGESTING_HOST/v1/logs, /v1/traces and /v1/metrics.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Better Stack — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 8
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 7
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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