Better Stack
7.6#4 in monitoring observabilityFrom $29 a monthFree planAndroidiOSWebAPI
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What both publish
| Fact | Better Stack | Checkmk |
|---|---|---|
| Integrations | Listed integrations include Slack, Microsoft Teams, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty, Jira, Zapier, and Google Calendar. | Checkmk advertises more than 2,000 built-in integrations covering hardware, networks, applications, operating systems and cloud or container platforms. |
| Security certifications | Better Stack says it is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and GDPR compliant, and that EU data is stored in GDPR-compliant DIN ISO/IEC 27001-certified data centers by default. | The Trust Center lists ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type I, GDPR, SIG, EU AI Act and DORA badges. |
Better Stack plans
- Free for personal projectsFree
- Responder$29 a month
- Nano — logs and traces$30 a month
- Micro — logs and traces$120 a month
- Mega — logs and traces$250 a month
- Tera — logs and traces$500 a month
Checkmk plans
- CommunityFree
- Synthetic MonitoringFree
- Pro$275 a month
- Cloud$290 a month
- Ultimate$400 a month
Pick Better Stack if…
Better Stack suits teams that need incident response, monitoring, on-call coordination, or telemetry tools in one platform. Mobile notification apps may help teams that want alerts on Android or iOS.
Pick Checkmk if…
It suits teams monitoring mixed infrastructure, servers, networks, and cloud services. The Community edition is aimed at smaller infrastructures, while distributed monitoring can support larger setups.