Better Stack
✓ Verified by EU AltsUptime monitoring, log management and incident response — a Czech alternative to PagerDuty.
Overview
Better Stack is a Prague, Czech Republic-based European company building developer tools and monitoring software since 2020. Despite its EU base, EU Alts has verified that Better Stack independently owned, with its ultimate ownership based in United States, so it may still fall under the reach of the US CLOUD Act — worth weighing against GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers on this specific point.
Why European teams pick Better Stack
Teams in Europe still consider Better Stack for its developer tools product and Czech Republic presence, operating since 2020, but unlike a fully EU-owned provider, Better Stack independently owned, with its ultimate ownership based in United States — so it does not fully avoid US CLOUD Act exposure the way some other alternatives to GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers do.
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About
Better Stack is a Czech monitoring, on-call, and status page platform founded in Prague in 2021, combining uptime monitoring, log management (Logtail), incident management with on-call scheduling, and public status pages. It checks monitored targets from multiple EU and global locations every 30 seconds. Better Stack processes all data in EU data centres with GDPR compliance and a DPA for all paid plans. Its log management tool (Logtail) is based on ClickHouse and offers sub-second log search at a fraction of the cost of Datadog or Splunk. Better Stack is gaining rapid adoption among European SaaS teams as an all-in-one observability and incident management platform.
Details
- Founded
- 2020
- Headquarters
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Ownership
- Independently owned (United States)
- Hosting
- EU (data processing location, per privacy policy) but entity is US
- CLOUD Act
- Exposed
- Company size
- 11–50 employees
Categories
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Frequently asked questions
What is Better Stack?
Better Stack is a Czech monitoring, on-call, and status page platform founded in Prague in 2021, combining uptime monitoring, log management (Logtail), incident management with on-call scheduling, and public status pages. It checks monitored targets from multiple EU and global locations every 30 seconds. Better Stack processes all data in EU data centres with GDPR compliance and a DPA for all paid plans. Its log management tool (Logtail) is based on ClickHouse and offers sub-second log search at a fraction of the cost of Datadog or Splunk. Better Stack is gaining rapid adoption among European SaaS teams as an all-in-one observability and incident management platform.
What does Better Stack do?
Better Stack is uptime monitoring, log management and incident response — a czech alternative to pagerduty. It is listed under developer tools and monitoring on EU Alts because its core functionality serves teams looking for a European developer tools tool with EU data residency, typically as a switch away from GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers.
Is Better Stack a good European developer tools alternative?
Better Stack is a fit for European businesses evaluating developer tools options where data residency and GDPR alignment matter — typical buyers include EU-based SaaS teams, public-sector projects, regulated industries (healthcare, finance, legal), and any organisation that needs to demonstrate that customer data does not leave the EU. It also overlaps with monitoring use cases.
Is Better Stack GDPR compliant?
Better Stack is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic and processes user data under the GDPR by default. However, EU Alts has verified that Better Stack independently owned, with its ultimate ownership based in United States, which means — unlike a fully EU-owned provider — it may still be reachable under the US CLOUD Act, similar to GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers in that respect.
How do teams switch from GitHub to Better Stack?
Teams evaluating a move from GitHub, Atlassian, and JetBrains's US-distributed peers to Better Stack should note: Better Stack independently owned, with its ultimate ownership based in United States, so this switch narrows but may not fully close the US CLOUD Act gap. Weigh that against the developer tools workflow fit before treating it as a complete Schrems II fix.
Where is Better Stack based?
Better Stack is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. The company was founded in 2020. Its main website is https://betterstack.com.