Better Stack's answer

Engineering teams of all sizes – from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

OutageDeck's answer:

Anyone whose incident channel regularly starts with "is AWS down, or is it just us?":

• DevOps, SRE, and platform engineers. Answer "is it us or them?" in seconds during an incident.
• Small SaaS teams. Your uptime depends on other people's clouds, so see whether a vendor has acknowledged a problem before changing your own stack.
• Agencies and MSPs. Watch the vendor stacks of many clients from one place.

Better Stack's answer

Better Stack is a modern observability tool that leverages eBPF and OpenTelemetry to make tracing work for you.

OutageDeck's answer:

OutageDeck only reports what vendors officially publish. Every status comes from the provider's own machine-readable feed, never crowd reports and never scraping. Then it holds vendors to what they said:

• Observed uptime history from archived vendor-published status, with honest partial and regional impact framing
• Every incident links back to its source on the vendor's own status page
• One dashboard for the cloud and SaaS vendors your product depends on, with alerts to Slack, Teams, Discord, email, or webhooks
• Bring your own feed on paid plans: point it at any Statuspage or Instatus page it does not track yet
• A JSON API, RSS feeds, README badges, and an MCP server so a coding agent can check the vendor before it blames your code

Better Stack's answer

We are software builders at Better Stack.

CEO is a software engineer, COO is a software engineer and you guessed it; CTO is an engineer, too.

We’re helping developers ship higher quality software faster.

OutageDeck's answer:

I got tired of opening a dozen vendor status pages during every incident, just to work out whether the problem was mine or somebody else's. So I built the thing I wanted.

It launched in July 2026 as one live board over the official status feeds of cloud and SaaS vendors teams depend on. The catalog changes as official sources are added or removed.

The rule from day one: official machine-readable sources only. No crowd reports, no scraping. If a status can't be traced back to the vendor's own feed, it doesn't get published.

Better Stack's answer

You get an unrivaled price-to-performance ratio. Forget sampling and ingest all your data, or decrease your costs by 30x.

OutageDeck's answer:

Choose it when your problem is third-party vendor status, not when you need synthetic monitoring of your own application.

• Fast triage. One stack view normalizes current status, affected services, source timestamps, and incident history across the cloud and SaaS vendors your product depends on. You can use it without an account.
• Traceable, limited claims. Every record links to the vendor's official source. Providers can acknowledge incidents late, so OutageDeck should be a second signal beside direct provider checks and probes from your own regions. Its own health endpoint is checked from a separate GitHub-hosted workflow with public run history.
• Useful exits. Free accounts add email alerts for five providers. Paid plans add Slack, Teams, Discord, webhooks, and private Statuspage or Instatus feeds. Developers can use the keyless JSON API, RSS, badges, CLI, MCP server, GitHub Action, or Open WebUI tool.

Better Stack's answer

The primary technologies used to build Better Stack are eBPF for low-level, high-performance instrumentation and ClickHouse for storing and querying large volumes of observability data efficiently.

OutageDeck's answer:

• Frontend / app: Next.js 16 (App Router), React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
• Data: Supabase Postgres. Every upstream feed is validated with Zod, so provider format drift fails loudly instead of corrupting data
• Ingestion: each vendor's official feed polled every 10 minutes, with per-provider failure isolation, so one broken feed never blocks the rest
• Alerting: a delivery ledger with exactly-once claims, so overlapping runs never double-page anyone