Better Stack

Live audit of your Better Stack workspace — confirms uptime monitors exist and aren't sitting in a `down` state you've stopped noticing.

Available on the Growth tier. Read-only API token (Uptime side) — we never create monitors, resolve incidents, or modify alert routing.

Why this matters

Better Stack is the Sentry / PagerDuty hybrid popular with indie founders. Same Stable pillar question as Sentry — will you find out before users do — with a different evidence shape: Better Stack does external uptime monitoring + alert routing, whereas Sentry does in-app exception capture. The two failure modes that hurt: an account that never actually added a monitor (zero pings on the app), and a monitor stuck in down state for days because the alert email goes to a list nobody reads.

Connect Better Stack

01

Mint an Uptime API token.

Better Stack → Account Settings → API Tokens → Create token. Note: Better Stack issues separate tokens for Telemetry (logs) vs Uptime (monitoring). For this Connected Check you want the Uptime token.

02

Paste into PulseLight.

From the project page, click the gear icon → Connected platforms → Better Stack. Paste the token. We probe the API once to confirm it works and surface the monitor count.

03

First scan.

The next scan includes the Better Stack Connected Check findings — rolled up into the Stable pillar.

What we verify

  • At least one uptime monitor exists — CONN-BETTERSTACK-MONITORS-001

    Zero monitors on a connected account means nothing is pinging the app from the outside. Outages go unnoticed until customers report them — usually on Twitter, usually loudly. This is the most common Better Stack failure: the account exists because someone set it up once, but no monitor was ever pointed at the prod URL.

  • No monitor is currently down — CONN-BETTERSTACK-DOWN-001

    We list monitors and flag any reporting down right now. Two possibilities: a real outage in progress (urgent), or a stale monitor that’s been red for days because alerts go to an inbox nobody reads (also urgent — the monitor isn’t doing its job).

Privacy + scope

Your API token is encrypted at rest with KMS envelope encryption and decrypted only at scan time. We read monitor config and current status. We never create monitors, never acknowledge or resolve incidents, never modify on-call rotations. Revoke the token in Better Stack’s Account Settings at any time; the next scan reports the integration as revoked.