Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Better Stack vs Elastic Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
Better Stack is more reliable than Elastic Cloud, scoring 64.7 vs 26.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Better Stack reported 5 incidents and Elastic Cloud reported 23, with effective uptime of 99.61% and 91.19% respectively. Better Stack resolves incidents faster on average (18h 4m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Better Stack | Elastic Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 64.7 | 26.9 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #12 | #16 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.61% | 91.19% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 23 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 22 |
| Avg time to resolve | 18h 4m | 19h 52m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Better Stack and Elastic Cloud differ
- Elastic Cloud reported 4.6× as many incidents as Better Stack over the last 90 days (23 vs 5).
- Elastic Cloud had 22 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Better Stack.
- Better Stack fixes problems faster: 18h 4m on average, against 19h 52m for Elastic Cloud.
- Better Stack's longest outage on record lasted 2h (Jun 15, 2026); Elastic Cloud's lasted 3d (Sep 9, 2026).
90-day uptime
Better Stack
Elastic Cloud
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
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
Recent Elastic Cloud incidents
- Partial outageOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 2h 29m
- Partial outageOct 22, 2026 · resolved in 9h 31m
403 error when trying to access Autoops in newly created serverless projectsofficial update ↗
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 6h 57m
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 15h 3m
Degraded availability for some Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless deployments in GCP europe-west2 (London)official update ↗
- Partial outageOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 8h 12m
Delayed or Unavailable project operation in GCP us-central1official update ↗
Affected: GCP Infrastructure health: us-central1
- Partial outageOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 3h 50m
Delayed Serverless Metrics in Azure UAE North regionofficial update ↗
Affected: Azure Infrastructure Health
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 · 99.92% uptime
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