Better Stack's log, metric and trace store built on ClickHouse, queried with SQL or a live-tail view. Shares an account with Better Stack uptime and on-call.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Free plan
- 3 GB logs retained 3 days
- Open source
- No
- Self-hosted
- No
- Launched
- 2021
- Status
- Active
- Website
- betterstack.com
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Log management checklist
10 of 10 confirmed in Better Stack Telemetry's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Logs.
- Full-text search Yes
- Structured log parsing Yes
- OTLP logs ingest Yes
- Log alerts Yes
- Live tail Yes
- Metrics from logs Yes
- Archive or tiered retention Yes
- Dashboards Yes
- Query language Yes
- Access control Yes
RBAC listed under enterprise features on pricing
Checked against: betterstack.com, betterstack.com (2), betterstack.com (3), betterstack.com (4)
Observability platforms checklist
8 of 10 confirmed in Better Stack Telemetry's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Platforms.
- OpenTelemetry (OTLP) ingest Yes
- Metrics Yes
- Logs Yes
- Distributed traces Yes
- APM Yes
- Real user monitoring Yes
- Synthetic checks Yes
- Continuous profiling Not confirmed
- Built-in alerting Yes
- SLO tracking Not confirmed
RUM and synthetics come from the wider Better Stack platform; no profiling or SLO feature found
Checked against: betterstack.com, betterstack.com (2), betterstack.com (3), betterstack.com (4)
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