Better Stack Uptime vs Gatus
Better Stack Uptime and Gatus are both uptime monitoring software. Better Stack Uptime is a commercial product from Better Stack. Gatus is open source under Apache-2.0, with 12k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Better Stack Uptime when
- A small engineering team wants uptime checks, on-call and status pages in one inexpensive tool.
- Pick Gatus when
- Developers want uptime checks defined as config in Git, with assertions on response content and timing.
Side by side
Uptime monitoring with heartbeats, on-call scheduling, phone and SMS alerts, incident management and status pages.
A health dashboard and status page that checks endpoints against conditions defined in YAML, with alerting and incident announcements.
It bundles many features, so check which plan includes the on-call and alerting you need.
Configuration lives in files, with no UI for adding monitors, which suits engineers more than operators.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server
Not published
Go, Vue, PostgreSQL and SQLite
Closed source, sold by Better Stack
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
No Wikipedia article of its own
12k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 7 years ago, latest release v5.38.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.