Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Better Stack vs UptimeRobot: which is more reliable? (2026)
UptimeRobot is more reliable than Better Stack, scoring 87.7 vs 64.7 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Better Stack reported 5 incidents and UptimeRobot reported 7, with effective uptime of 99.61% and 99.93% respectively. UptimeRobot resolves incidents faster on average (25m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
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| Metric | Better Stack | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 64.7 | 87.7 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #12 | #5 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.61% | 99.93% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 7 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 7 |
| Avg time to resolve | 18h 4m | 25m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Better Stack and UptimeRobot differ
- UptimeRobot reported 40% more incidents than Better Stack over the last 90 days (7 vs 5).
- UptimeRobot had 7 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Better Stack.
- UptimeRobot fixes problems faster: 25m on average, against 18h 4m for Better Stack (43.0× quicker).
- Better Stack's longest outage on record lasted 2h (Jun 15, 2026); UptimeRobot's lasted 2h 41m (Aug 4, 2026).
90-day uptime
Better Stack
UptimeRobot
- 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 UptimeRobot incidents
- Partial outageOct 26, 2026 · resolved in 1m
Affected: API v2
- Partial outageOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 10m
Affected: API v2
- Partial outageSep 3, 2026 · resolved in <1m
Affected: API v2, RSS
- Partial outageSep 2, 2026 · resolved in 1m
Affected: API v2, RSS
- Partial outageSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 1m
Affected: API v2
- Partial outageAug 29, 2026 · resolved in 2m
Affected: API v2
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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