Better Stack

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Better Stack provides monitoring, logging, and incident management solutions to help teams ensure the reliability and performance of their applications.

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Connect Better Stack to Definable to automate repetitive tasks, sync data with the rest of your stack, trigger on real-world events. Personas call Better Stack's 117 tools directly from chat or scheduled flows. You can wire it into any persona to read, write, and react when an event fires.

Common workflows with Better Stack

Trigger on event

Listen for a new event
Parse and validate the payload
Take an action with the linked tool

Daily summary

Pull yesterday's activity
Summarise with the model of your choice
Send the digest via email or Slack

Cross-tool sync

Read records from one app
Transform with a persona
Write the result back via this integration

Better Stack actions 117

Every Better Stack action below is a callable tool any Definable persona can invoke.

Acknowledge Incident

Tool to acknowledge an ongoing incident. Use when you need to mark an incident as being worked on, which prevents further escalations. Acknowledging an incident signals that someone is actively addressing the issue.

Create Escalation Policy

Creates a new escalation policy for incident management. Escalation policies define who gets notified and in what order when incidents occur. Supports multiple step types: 'escalation' (notify members), 'instructions' (guidance text), 'time_branching' (route by schedule), and 'metadata_branching' (route by incident metadata). For escalation steps, a valid urgency_id from the Severities API is required.

Create Heartbeat

Tool to create a new heartbeat monitor for cron jobs and scheduled tasks. Use when you need to set up monitoring for a service that should send regular heartbeat signals.

Create Heartbeat Group

Tool to create a new heartbeat group. Use when you need to organize related heartbeat checks under a single, logical group. Example prompt: "Create a new heartbeat group named 'Backend services'."

Create Incident

Tool to create a new incident and alert the on-call person. Use when you need to manually report an incident or trigger escalation workflows. The incident will be routed according to the specified escalation policy or default team settings.

Create Incident Comment

Tool to create a new comment on an incident. Use when you need to add documentation, updates, or notes to an existing incident in Better Stack.

Create Metadata

Tool to create or update a metadata record for a resource. Metadata provides key-value associations for resources like monitors, heartbeats, or incidents. Use when you need to tag or annotate resources with custom data. Existing values for the specified key will be completely replaced.

Create Monitor

Tool to create a new uptime monitor for a URL or service. Use when you need to set up monitoring for websites, APIs, servers, or network services. Supports multiple monitor types including HTTP/HTTPS status checks, keyword monitoring, ping, TCP/UDP, email protocols, DNS queries, and browser automation with Playwright.

Create Monitor Group

Tool to create a new monitor group. Use when you need to organize related monitors under a single, logical group for better dashboard organization.

Create On-Call Schedule

Tool to create a new on-call schedule. Use when you need to set up a new on-call calendar for managing team rotations.

Create Outgoing Webhook Integration

Tool to create a new outgoing webhook integration. Use when you need to register an endpoint to receive event notifications from Better Stack.

Create Escalation Policy Group

Tool to create a new escalation policy group. Use when you need to organize related escalation policies under a single logical group.

Create Source Group

Tool to create a new source group. Use when you have finalized the group name (and optional sort index) and need to organize related log sources under that group.

Create Status Page Group

Tool to create a new status page group. Use when you need to organize related status pages under a single logical group with a descriptive name.

Create Status Page Report

Tool to create a new status page report (incident or maintenance). Use when you need to publish a status update about an ongoing incident or scheduled maintenance on a status page.

Create Status Page Resource

Tool to create a new status page resource. Use when you need to add a monitor, heartbeat, or other resource to a status page for public visibility tracking.

Create Status Page Section

Tool to create a new section on a status page. Use when organizing resources into logical groups (e.g., by datacenter or service type). Leave name blank to hide the section header.

Create Status Update

Tool to create a new status update for an existing status report. Use when you need to post an update about the current state of an incident or maintenance. The update can include a message, affected resources with their status, and optionally notify subscribers.

Create Severity Level

Tool to create a new severity level (urgency) for incident management. Use when you need to define notification preferences for different incident severity levels.

Create Urgency Group

Tool to create a new urgency group (severity group) for incident categorization. Use when you need to define severity levels for monitoring alerts and incidents.

Delete Escalation Policy

Tool to delete an escalation policy by ID. Use when you need to permanently remove an existing escalation policy after confirming its ID.

Delete Heartbeat

Tool to permanently delete a heartbeat by ID. Use when you need to remove a heartbeat that is no longer needed.

Delete Heartbeat Group

Tool to permanently delete a heartbeat group by ID. Use when you need to remove a heartbeat group that is no longer needed.

Delete Incident

Tool to permanently delete an existing incident by ID. Use when you need to remove an incident from Better Stack Uptime.

Delete Incident Comment

Tool to delete an existing comment from an incident. Use when you need to remove a comment that was previously added via the API. Note: Only comments created via the API can be deleted; comments created in the UI cannot be deleted via the API.

Delete Monitor

Tool to permanently delete a monitor by ID from Better Stack Uptime. Use when you need to remove a monitor that is no longer needed.

Delete Monitor Group

Tool to permanently delete a monitor group by ID from Better Stack Uptime. Use when you need to remove a monitor group that is no longer needed.

Delete On-Call Schedule

Tool to permanently delete an on-call schedule by ID. Use when you need to remove an on-call calendar that is no longer needed.

Delete Outgoing Webhook Integration

Tool to delete an outgoing webhook integration by ID. Use when you need to permanently remove an existing webhook integration.

Delete Escalation Policy Group

Tool to delete an escalation policy group by ID. Use when you need to permanently remove an existing escalation policy group after confirming its ID.

Delete Source Group

Tool to permanently delete a source group by ID from Better Stack Telemetry (Logs). Source groups are used to organize related log sources. Use this action when you need to remove a source group that is no longer needed. Note: This action requires a Telemetry API token (not an Uptime API token). Deleting a source group does not delete the sources within it - they will become ungrouped.

Delete Status Page Group

Tool to delete a status page group by ID. Use when you need to permanently remove an existing status page group.

Delete Status Page Report

Tool to permanently delete a status page report by ID from Better Stack Uptime. Use this action when you need to remove an existing status page report that is no longer needed. The report will be permanently deleted and cannot be recovered.

Delete Status Page Resource

Tool to delete an existing resource from a status page. Use when you need to permanently remove a resource (monitor or heartbeat) that is displayed on a status page.

Delete Status Page Section

Tool to permanently delete a status page section by ID. Use when you need to remove a section from a status page that is no longer needed. Sections organize resources on status pages for better visibility.

Delete Status Update

Tool to delete an existing status update from a status report. Use when you need to permanently remove a status update after confirming its ID.

Delete Severity

Tool to delete a severity (urgency) by ID. Use when you need to permanently remove an existing severity level after confirming its ID.

Delete Urgency Group

Tool to permanently delete an urgency group (severity group) by ID. Use when you need to remove an existing severity group that is no longer needed.

Escalate Incident

Tool to escalate an ongoing incident to a user, team, schedule, policy, or organization. Use when you need to route an active incident to the appropriate responders with specified notification channels (call, SMS, email, push).

Get Escalation Policy

Tool to get a single escalation policy by its ID. Use when you need full details of a specific escalation policy including its steps, repeat settings, and team information.

Get Heartbeat

Tool to get a single heartbeat by ID. Use when you need to fetch details of a specific heartbeat.

Get Heartbeat Availability

Tool to retrieve availability summary for a specific heartbeat. Use when you need availability metrics for a heartbeat within an optional date range.

Get Heartbeat Group

Tool to get a single heartbeat group by ID. Use when you need to fetch details of a specific heartbeat group.

Get Incident Comment

Tool to get a single comment from an incident. Use when you need to retrieve details of a specific comment on a Better Stack incident.

Get Monitor

Tool to get a single monitor. Use when you need full details of a specific monitor by its ID.

Get Monitor Availability

Tool to return an availability summary for a specific monitor. Use when you need uptime percentage and incident details within an optional date range.

Get Monitor Group

Tool to get a single monitor group by ID. Use when you need to fetch details of a specific monitor group.

Get Monitor Group's Monitors

Tool to get all monitors belonging to a monitor group. Use when you need to retrieve all monitors within a specific monitor group, with optional pagination support.

Get Monitor Response Times

Retrieves response time performance metrics for a specific uptime monitor. Returns detailed timing data (DNS lookup, connection, TLS handshake, data transfer) grouped by geographic region. By default returns data for the last 24 hours. Use this to analyze monitor performance, identify latency issues, or compare response times across regions. Requires a valid monitor_id which can be obtained from the list_monitors action.

Get On-Call Schedule

Tool to get a single on-call schedule by ID. Use when you need to retrieve who is currently on-call for a specific schedule. Optionally specify a date to check on-call status at a specific time.

Get Outgoing Webhook Integration

Tool to get a single outgoing webhook integration by ID. Use when you need to retrieve details of a specific webhook integration.

Get Escalation Policy Group

Tool to get a single escalation policy group. Use when you need full details of a specific escalation policy group by its ID.

Get Status Page

Tool to get a single status page by ID. Use when you need detailed information about a specific status page.

Get Status Page Group

Tool to get a single status page group by ID. Use when you need to retrieve details of a specific status page group.

Get Status Page Report

Tool to get a single status page report by ID. Use when you need detailed information about a specific status report or incident.

Get Status Page Resource

Tool to get a single status page resource by ID. Use when you need detailed information about a specific resource on a status page.

Get Status Page Section

Tool to get a single status page section. Use when you need details of a specific section within a status page by its ID.

Get Status Update

Tool to get a single status update by its ID. Use when you need details of a specific status update for a status report on your status page.

Get Uptime API Token

Tool to retrieve the configured Uptime API token. Use when you need the Uptime API token for subsequent authenticated API calls.

Get Severity Level

Tool to get a single severity level (urgency) by ID. Use when you need to fetch details of a specific urgency configuration.

Get Urgency Group

Tool to get a single urgency group (severity group) by ID. Use when you need to fetch details of a specific urgency group.

List AWS CloudWatch Integrations

Tool to list all AWS CloudWatch integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured AWS CloudWatch on-call integrations.

List Azure Integrations

Tool to list all Azure integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Azure on-call integrations.

List Catalog Relations

Tool to list all catalog relations. Use when you need to retrieve all catalog relations, supports pagination.

List Datadog Integrations

Tool to list all Datadog integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Datadog on-call integrations.

List Elastic Integrations

Tool to list Elastic integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Elastic integrations.

List Email Integrations

Tool to list email integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured email integrations with optional team filtering and pagination support.

List Google Monitoring Integrations

Tool to list all Google Monitoring integrations. Use when you need to view your configured Google Monitoring on-call integrations with pagination support.

List Grafana Integrations

Tool to list all Grafana integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Grafana integrations.

List Heartbeat Groups

Tool to list all heartbeat groups. Use when you need to retrieve configured heartbeat groups with optional filtering by team name.

List Heartbeats

Tool to list all heartbeats. Use when you need to retrieve your configured uptime heartbeats with optional pagination.

List Incidents Comments

Tool to list all comments on an incident. Use when you need to retrieve all comments associated with a Better Stack incident.

List Incidents Timeline

Tool to retrieve all timeline events for an incident. Use when you need to get a chronological history of events, comments, responses, and changes for a specific incident in Better Stack. Returns all timeline items without pagination.

List Incidents Uptime

Tool to list all incidents with optional filtering by monitor, heartbeat, date range, or resolution status. Supports pagination with default of 10 per page and maximum of 50.

List Jira Integrations

Tool to list all Jira integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Jira integrations.

List Metadata

Tool to list all existing metadata. Use when you need to retrieve metadata records with optional filtering by team, owner resource ID, or owner resource type.

List Monitor Groups

Tool to list all monitor groups. Use when you need to retrieve existing monitor groups with optional team filtering and pagination support.

List Monitors

Tool to list all monitors. Use when you need to retrieve existing uptime monitors with optional filtering by URL or name and pagination.

List New Relic Integrations

Tool to list New Relic integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured New Relic integrations with pagination support.

List On-Call Schedule Events

Tool to list all events for a specific on-call schedule. Use when you need to retrieve the calendar of scheduled on-call periods for a team.

List On-Call Schedules

Tool to list all on-call schedules. Use when you need to retrieve all configured on-call calendars.

List Outgoing Webhook Integrations

Tool to list all outgoing webhook integrations. Use when you need to retrieve configured webhook endpoints for event notifications.

List PagerDuty Webhooks

Tool to list PagerDuty integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured PagerDuty integrations.

List Escalation Policies

Tool to list all escalation policies. Use when you need to retrieve existing escalation policies with optional filtering by team name.

List Escalation Policy Groups

Tool to list all escalation policy groups. Use when you need to retrieve existing policy groups with optional team filtering and pagination support.

List Prometheus Integrations

Tool to list all Prometheus integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Prometheus on-call integrations.

List Single Incident

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a single incident by its ID. Use when you need to get the full details of a specific incident including its status, timeline, affected regions, and notification settings.

List Slack Integrations

Tool to list all Slack integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Slack channel integrations.

List Splunk On-Call Integrations

Tool to list all Splunk On-Call integrations. Use when you need to retrieve and inspect all configured Splunk On-Call on-call integrations.

List Status Page Groups

Tool to list all status page groups. Use when you need to retrieve existing status page groups with optional pagination.

List Status Pages In Status Page Group

Tool to list status pages within a specific status page group. Use when you need to retrieve all status pages belonging to a particular group with optional pagination.

List Status Page Reports

Tool to list all reports on a status page. Use when you need to retrieve existing status page reports with optional pagination via `page` and `per_page`.

List Status Page Report Status Updates

Tool to list all status updates for a status page report. Use when you need to retrieve updates posted on a specific status page report with optional pagination.

List Status Pages

Tool to list all your status pages. Use when you need to retrieve existing status pages with optional pagination.

List Status Page Sections

Tool to list all sections of a specific status page. Use when you need to retrieve the existing sections within a status page.

List Status Page Resources

Tool to list all resources on a status page. Use when you need to retrieve existing resources with optional pagination.

List Severity Levels

Tool to list all severity levels (urgencies). Use when you need to retrieve existing incident severity configurations with their notification settings.

List Urgency Groups

Tool to list all urgency groups (severity groups). Use when you need to retrieve existing urgency groups with optional team filtering and pagination support.

Resolve Incident

Tool to resolve an ongoing incident. Use when you need to mark an incident as resolved and close it. Resolving an incident signals that the issue has been fixed and stops any further escalations.

Update Escalation Policy

Tool to update an existing escalation policy. Use when you need to modify policy attributes like name, repeat settings, or escalation steps. Only the fields you provide will be updated (partial updates supported).

Update Heartbeat

Tool to update an existing heartbeat configuration. Use after retrieving a heartbeat and choosing which fields to change.

Update Heartbeat Group

Updates an existing heartbeat group's properties. Use to rename a group, change its display order, or pause/resume monitoring for all heartbeats in the group.

Update Incident Comment

Tool to update an existing comment on an incident. Use when you need to modify the content of a comment that was previously added to a Better Stack incident.

Update Monitor

Tool to update an existing uptime monitor configuration. Use when you need to modify settings of an existing monitor such as check frequency, notification preferences, URLs, or monitoring behavior.

Update Monitor Group

Updates an existing monitor group's properties. Use to rename a group, change its display order, or pause/resume monitoring for all monitors in the group.

Update On-Call Schedule

Tool to update an on-call schedule's name. Use when you need to rename an existing on-call calendar.

Update Outgoing Webhook Integration

Tool to update an existing outgoing webhook integration. Use when you need to modify the configuration of a webhook endpoint.

Update Escalation Policy Group

Updates an existing escalation policy group's properties. Use to rename a group or change its display order.

Update Source Group

Update an existing source group in Better Stack Logs/Telemetry. Use this to rename a source group or change its sort order. Requires a Telemetry API token (different from Uptime API token).

Update Status Page Group

Tool to update an existing status page group. Use when you need to modify the name or display order of a status page group.

Update Status Page Report

Tool to update an existing status page report. Use when you need to modify the title, timing, or affected resources of an existing incident or maintenance report.

Update Status Page Resource

Tool to update an existing status page resource. Use when you need to modify the display name, position, widget type, or other properties of a resource on a status page.

Update Status Pages

Tool to update an existing status page configuration. Use when modifying settings like company info, appearance, access control, or display preferences.

Update Status Page Section

Tool to update an existing status page section. Use when reorganizing sections or changing their display. Leave name blank to hide the section header.

Update Status Update

Tool to update an existing status update for a status report. Use when you need to modify the message, affected resources, or other details of a previously created status update.

Update Severity Level

Tool to update an existing severity level (urgency) configuration. Use when you need to modify notification settings or name for a specific severity level.

Update Urgency Group

Tool to update an existing urgency group (severity group). Use when you need to modify the name or sort order of a severity group.

Frequently asked questions

What can I automate with Better Stack on Definable?

Anything Better Stack exposes through its API. Common server monitoring workflows on Definable include automate repetitive tasks, sync data with the rest of your stack, trigger on real-world events. Personas can call any of the 117 Better Stack tools directly, then chain the result into another integration without you writing code.

How does Better Stack authentication work?

Better Stack uses API_KEY on Definable. You connect once from the integrations page, scoped to the permissions you choose, and from then on any persona that has the integration enabled can act on your behalf. Tokens are encrypted at rest and rotated automatically.

Is the Better Stack integration included in my Definable plan?

Yes — every Definable plan, including Starter, includes access to all 117 Better Stack tools. You only need a separate Better Stack subscription if Better Stack itself charges per seat or per API call.

Is using Better Stack through Definable secure?

Every call from a persona to Better Stack is logged with the user, persona, prompt, and response. Tokens never leave Definable's secrets vault, scopes are configurable per persona, and you can revoke access at any time from the integration page.

How do I get started with Better Stack on Definable?

Sign up for Definable, open the integrations page, find Better Stack, and connect via OAuth or API key. You can immediately attach Better Stack to any persona and start running workflows. The free Starter plan includes 5,000 credits/month.

What Better Stack actions does Definable expose?

Definable exposes all 117 Better Stack actions as callable tools — including `Acknowledge Incident`, `Create Escalation Policy`, `Create Heartbeat`, plus 114 more. Each tool gets a typed parameter schema so personas know exactly how to call it.

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