Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Axiom vs Better Stack: which is more reliable? (2026)
Axiom and Better Stack are effectively tied on reliability (63.5 vs 64.7). Over the last 90 days Axiom reported 9 incidents and Better Stack reported 5, with effective uptime of 99.50% and 99.61% respectively. Axiom resolves incidents faster on average (6h 36m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Axiom | Better Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 63.5 | 64.7 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #13 | #12 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.50% | 99.61% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 9 | 5 |
| Partial / major outages | 4 | 1 |
| Avg time to resolve | 6h 36m | 18h 4m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Axiom and Better Stack differ
- Axiom reported 80% more incidents than Better Stack over the last 90 days (9 vs 5).
- Axiom had 4 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Better Stack.
- Axiom fixes problems faster: 6h 36m on average, against 18h 4m for Better Stack (2.7× quicker).
- Axiom's longest outage on record lasted 4h 22m (May 15, 2026); Better Stack's lasted 2h (Jun 15, 2026).
90-day uptime
Axiom
Better Stack
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Axiom incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 30, 2026 · resolved in 1h 7m
Affected: Ingest
- Partial outageOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 2h 38m
Elevated errors from queriesofficial update ↗
Affected: Alerting, Querying
- Degraded performanceOct 25, 2026 · resolved in 1h 4m
Queries on Metrics Datasets Suffer from Elevated Error Rates
Affected: Querying
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 33m
Affected: Querying
- Partial outageOct 15, 2026 · resolved in 54m
Metrics query failures in US region
Affected: Querying
- Partial outageOct 15, 2026 · resolved in 12m
Metrics ingestion and query disruption
Affected: Ingest
Recent Better Stack incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 39m
- Degraded performanceSep 4, 2026 · resolved in 2d 5h
- Degraded performanceSep 3, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceAug 27, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Maintenance: Migrating some Telemetry sources to new infrastructure
- Major outageAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 9m
Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- Rollbar · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- Checkly · #3 · 99.96% uptime
- New Relic · #4 · 99.91% uptime
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