aid: better-stack
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/better-stack/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
apis:
- aid: better-stack:better-stack
  name: Better Stack API
  tags:
  - Monitoring
  - Incidents
  - Uptime
  - Heartbeats
  - Status Pages
  humanURL: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/getting-started/
  baseURL: https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2
  properties:
  - url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/getting-started/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/monitors/
    type: APIReference
  - url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/better-stack/refs/heads/main/openapi/better-stack-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/better-stack-escalation-policies.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/better-stack-heartbeats.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/better-stack-incidents.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/better-stack-monitors.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/better-stack-status-pages.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/better-stack-team-members.yaml
  description: The Better Stack API provides programmatic access to uptime monitoring, heartbeat monitoring, incident management,
    status pages, escalation policies, and team management. It follows the JSON:API specification and uses Bearer token authentication.
name: Better Stack
tags:
- Incidents
- Logs
- Monitoring
- Platform
- Status
- Uptime
- Observability
- On-Call
- Heartbeats
kind: contract
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2025-01-08'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
description: Better Stack is a comprehensive infrastructure monitoring and observability platform that combines uptime monitoring,
  log management, incident management, status pages, and AI-powered site reliability tools. It helps teams identify and resolve
  website and server issues quickly by providing real-time alerting, detailed diagnostics, on-call scheduling, and public/private
  status pages.
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterstack
- type: Portal
  url: https://betterstack.com/docs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/getting-started/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/getting-started/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://betterstack.com/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.betterstack.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://betterstack.com/community/blog
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://betterstack.com/tag/changelog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ
- type: SpectralRules
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/better-stack/refs/heads/main/rules/better-stack-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/better-stack/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/better-stack-vocabulary.yaml
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Uptime Monitoring
    description: Monitor URLs, APIs, and services for availability with checks from multiple global regions every 30 seconds.
  - name: Heartbeat Monitoring
    description: Monitor scheduled jobs, cron tasks, and background workers by pinging a unique URL on each run.
  - name: Incident Management
    description: Automatically create and manage incidents when monitors detect downtime, with acknowledgement and resolution
      workflows.
  - name: On-Call Scheduling
    description: Configure escalation policies with multi-step notification sequences via phone, SMS, email, and push.
  - name: Status Pages
    description: Create public and private status pages with custom domains, branding, and real-time component status.
  - name: Log Management
    description: Collect, search, and visualize logs across your entire infrastructure stack.
  - name: AI SRE
    description: AI-powered root cause analysis that automatically investigates incidents and suggests resolutions.
  - name: Infrastructure Monitoring
    description: OpenTelemetry-native monitoring with dashboards for metrics and infrastructure health.
  - name: Terraform Provider
    description: Manage Better Stack resources as code using the official Terraform provider.
  - name: MCP Server
    description: Model Context Protocol server for integrating Better Stack with AI tools and agents.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Website Uptime Monitoring
    description: Monitor public websites and APIs for availability and alert on-call engineers when they go down.
  - name: API Health Checking
    description: Continuously verify that REST APIs return expected status codes and response times.
  - name: Cron Job Monitoring
    description: Use heartbeats to ensure scheduled tasks run on time and alert when they fail to check in.
  - name: Incident Response Automation
    description: Automate incident creation, on-call notifications, and resolution workflows to reduce MTTR.
  - name: Customer-Facing Status Communication
    description: Publish status pages that automatically reflect the real-time health of monitored services.
  - name: Infrastructure Observability
    description: Aggregate logs, metrics, and traces in a single platform for full-stack observability.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Slack
    description: Receive incident alerts and status updates directly in Slack channels.
  - name: PagerDuty
    description: Forward incidents to PagerDuty for existing on-call workflows.
  - name: Terraform
    description: Manage monitors, status pages, and escalation policies as infrastructure as code.
  - name: OpenTelemetry
    description: Send metrics, logs, and traces using OpenTelemetry-compatible exporters.
  - name: Sentry
    description: Compatible with Sentry SDK for error tracking integration.
  - name: New Relic
    description: Connect Better Stack monitoring data with New Relic dashboards.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.19'