Better Stack does more. That's what you're paying for.
Uptime, incidents, logs, telemetry — it's a capable platform and the free tier is generous. The catch shows up once you need more monitors or a bigger team: the price scales with per-responder seats, not just with infrastructure.
Where Better Stack is still the right answer
If you need incident management, log aggregation, or on-call scheduling for a whole team, Better Stack does those jobs and we don't try to. Its free tier is strong too: unlimited incident history, a wide alert-channel list, no card required. And if uptime monitoring is one small piece of an observability stack you're already building, there's a real argument for keeping it all on one platform.
We stay narrow on purpose: uptime checks, alerts and status pages, at one price that doesn't move when your team grows.
Side by side
| Feature | Better Stack | Dumza |
|---|---|---|
| Product scope | Uptime, incidents, logs, telemetry | Uptime, alerts, status pages |
| Pricing model | Plan price, plus per-responder seats once you scale | One flat price. No seats, ever |
| Cheapest paid plan | $25/mo, 60 monitors | $7/mo, 20 monitors |
| Cost for ~100 monitors | Scales with seats and add-ons | $19/mo flat |
| Free-tier incident history | Unlimited | 30 days |
| Free-tier alert channels | Unlimited, wide provider list | Email, webhook, Telegram, Slack — 2 per monitor |
| Public status pages | Yes | Yes, with automatic incident history and subscriber emails |
Checked against Better Stack's published pricing on 14 August 2026. Plans change — verify on their site before you decide.
Same monitoring. One flat number.
Start free, no card. If you need everything else Better Stack does, go and use it — it's a good tool. If you only ever came for the uptime checks, you're paying for the rest of it anyway.