Better Stack

Better Stack

4.9 out of 5 stars
CheckoutAlarm

CheckoutAlarm

Volado Labs
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About

Better Stack is an eBPF-based, AI SRE observability tool that helps you ship better software, faster. Schedule on-call rotations, receive actionable alerts, and resolve incidents with ease. Better Stack brings together incident management, uptime monitoring, status pages, log management, and infrastructure monitoring – all in one place. Built for speed and scale, it combines multiple monitoring and alerting workflows into a single, powerful interface that boosts visibility and slashes response times. Key features include an OpenTelemetry-native Kubernetes collector powered by eBPF, real-time alerting, and collaborative dashboards. Under the hood, Better Stack runs on ClickHouse, enabling lightning-fast queries and scalable ingestion across high-cardinality datasets. You can visualize your entire stack, turn all your logs into structured data, and query everything with SQL – as if it were a single database. Seamlessly integrates into your workflow with 100+ integrations.

About

CheckoutAlarm is a hosted monitoring service for founders and independent makers running applications that accept payments through Stripe. It periodically loads a selected website page and checks its response status, speed, and whether an expected page title or phrase is present. For Stripe, it monitors undelivered webhook events and disabled endpoints, and can alert when sales activity stalls. Before monitoring begins, site ownership is verified using a DNS record, a meta tag, or a verification file. CheckoutAlarm sends email alerts after two consecutive page-check failures and a recovery notice when the check succeeds again; Stripe alerts are also sent by email. The Free plan checks one site daily. Pro checks up to three sites hourly for $19 per month. CheckoutAlarm helps identify website availability and Stripe payment-delivery problems through scheduled monitoring.

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Supported
iPad Supported
Android Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Engineering teams of all sizes – from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Audience

Founders and indie makers with paid apps built on Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit or v0 that take payments through Stripe

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

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Pricing

$29 per month
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Free Version Supported
Free Trial Supported

Pricing

$0
The Free plan costs $0/month and includes one site checked daily. Pro costs $19/month for up to three sites checked hourly. Prices are in U.S. dollars; applicable tax is shown at checkout.
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.9 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 4.9 / 5
design 4.3 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Able to monitor my clients websites by keyword, hosting and different ways. Able to create status reports. Receive sms and phone call is a site goes down. Great UI.
  • Uptime is a reliable and complex solution for us. Great plus are the advanced escalation policies and heartbeats, checking if our background jobs get done.
  • Simple setup. Highly reliable (didn't miss a thing so far). Friendly UI, intuitive workflow. Heartbeats for CRON jobs are a great touch. Highly customizable call scheduling. Loads of integrations. Helpful and friendly support.
  • Easy to setup and use. Intuitive design and UX. Free tier is really good for being free. Checks every 3 minutes. Monitors for prescheduled tasks. Very reliable.
  • Fast and reliable incident reporting. Error screenshots and logs. Ping checks every 30 seconds. Heartbeats checking cronjobs. Customizable status pages on custom subdomains.

Cons

  • Sometimes I get notifications saying a site is down but it's not. It's a bit confusing to set up. I don't know what's happening when it gives me error code for some reason but website has not gone down.
  • I didn't really notice any big issues with the service's functionality. We'd appreciate Dark Mode, Telegram integration and some of the advanced features could be available on their lower-tier plans.
  • Status pages lack a few features, but it seems some related updates are coming soon.
  • I'm a student and payed plans are out of my reach, but no big problem with free tier.
  • I'd welcome some of the advanced features in the freelancer plan. Otherwise, not much to complain about.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Better Stack
Founded: 2021
United States
betterstack.com

Company Information

Volado Labs
United States
checkoutalarm.com

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Categories

Categories

Website Monitoring Supported

Website Monitoring Features

Availability Testing Supported
Event Logs Supported
Event-Based Notifications Supported
FTP Monitoring Supported
Mail Server Monitoring Supported
Maintenance Scheduling Supported
Performance Metrics Supported
Real Time Monitoring Supported
Transaction Monitoring Supported
Uptime Reporting Supported

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Features

Alerts / Notifications Supported
Application Monitoring Supported
Bandwidth Monitoring Not Supported
Capacity Planning Not Supported
Configuration Change Management Supported
Data Movement Monitoring Supported
Health Monitoring Supported
Multi-Platform Support Supported
Performance Monitoring Supported
Point-in-Time Visibility Not Supported
Reporting / Analytics Supported
Virtual Machine Monitoring Supported

Incident Management Features

Audit Trail Supported
Corrective Actions (CAPA) Supported
Disaster Recovery Supported
Incident Reporting Supported
IT Incident Management Not Supported
OSHA Compliance Supported
Root-Cause Diagnosis Supported
Safety Management Not Supported
Task Management Supported
Ticket Management Supported

Network Monitoring Features

Bandwidth Monitoring Supported
Baseline Manager Supported
Diagnostic Tools Supported
Internet Usage Monitoring Not Supported
IP Address Monitoring Supported
Real Time Analytics Supported
Resource Management Not Supported
Server Monitoring Supported
SLA Monitoring Supported
Uptime Monitoring Supported
Web Traffic Reporting Supported

System Monitoring Features

Alerts / Notifications Supported
Antivirus Management Not Supported
Data Backup / Recovery Supported
Device Monitoring Supported
Inventory Management Not Supported
Patch Management Supported
Policy-based Automation Supported
Remote Monitoring Supported
Reporting / Analytics Supported
Risk Analysis Not Supported
Server Monitoring Supported
Service Configuration Management Supported

Integrations

Android Supported
Apple iOS Supported
Asana Supported
Datadog Supported
Fluent Bit Supported
Google Calendar Supported
Heroku Supported
Intercom Supported
IsDown Supported
Java Supported
JavaScript Supported
Kubernetes Supported
MainWP Supported
Microsoft Outlook Supported
Microsoft Teams Supported
MySQL Supported
New Relic Supported
Odella Supported
Stackreaction Supported
Stripe Not Supported

Integrations

Android Not Supported
Apple iOS Not Supported
Asana Not Supported
Datadog Not Supported
Fluent Bit Not Supported
Google Calendar Not Supported
Heroku Not Supported
Intercom Not Supported
IsDown Not Supported
Java Not Supported
JavaScript Not Supported
Kubernetes Not Supported
MainWP Not Supported
Microsoft Outlook Not Supported
Microsoft Teams Not Supported
MySQL Not Supported
New Relic Not Supported
Odella Not Supported
Stackreaction Not Supported
Stripe Supported
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