TBS Infrastructure vs Better Stackan honest comparison
Better Stack is a broad observability and incident-management platform — uptime, on-call, logs, traces and more. TBS Infrastructure is narrower and deeper on one job: keeping your cloud and office servers healthy, backed up and recoverable. Here is where each one is stronger.
Which one fits you?
Feature comparison
| Feature | TBS Infrastructure | Better Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Website uptime checks | ✓ Every 1, 2, 5 or 10 minutes | ✓ Up to 30-second check frequency |
| Heartbeat (cron job) checks | ✓ Included, with grace period | ✓ Included, with grace period and maintenance windows |
| SSL certificate and domain expiry | ✓ Included | ✓ SSL and domain (TLD) expiration monitoring |
| Status page for customers | ✓ Incident and maintenance notes, uptime bars, status badge | ✓ Custom sub-domain, private pages, custom CSS / JavaScript; extra pages and options are paid add-ons |
| Alert channels | ✓ Email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, webhook, escalation | ✓ Email, Slack, Teams, push; unlimited phone and SMS with a responder licence |
| On-call schedules | – Not offered (escalation to the next people only) | ✓ On-call scheduling for responders |
| Logs, traces and error tracking | – Not offered | ✓ Included products |
| Server metrics | ✓ Own agent for Linux and Windows, installed with one command | ✓ Metrics through Prometheus or OpenTelemetry |
| Cloud provider connections | ✓ Hetzner, Contabo, DigitalOcean, AWS, Azure, Vultr (read-only) | – Not listed on their pricing page |
| Backups of your servers with restore tests | ✓ Encrypted to your own storage, with restore-test proof | – Not listed on their pricing page |
| Disaster recovery plans and rehearsals | ✓ Included | – Not listed on their pricing page |
| SPF, DKIM and DMARC watch | ✓ Daily grading with fixes and DNS change alerts | – Not listed on their pricing page |
| Blacklist and open-port (exposure) checks | ✓ Daily | – Not listed on their pricing page |
| Audit evidence pack and monthly PDF | ✓ Included | – Not listed on their pricing page |
| Free plan | – No — free live demo and free domain health check instead | ✓ Free for personal projects: 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page |
| Pricing | Per company, by number of servers — quoted while in Early Access | Per responder licence plus monitor, heartbeat and status-page add-ons — see their pricing page |
Sources: Better Stack information from their public pricing page, checked 27 Oct 2026; TBS Infrastructure from our own product. Plans and features change — please check their website for the latest. If something here is out of date, tell us at hello@tbsplatform.com and we will correct it. Better Stack is a trademark of its owner; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Observability suite vs servers you can recover
Better Stack covers a wide area for software teams: uptime, on-call, logs, traces, error tracking and status pages. It is strong when you build and run your own applications and want everything about incidents in one place.
TBS Infrastructure is made for companies that run servers — in the cloud, in the office, or both — and need to know they are healthy, backed up and recoverable. It adds what an observability suite usually leaves to other tools: backups to your own storage, restore-test proof, and recovery plans with rehearsals.
Simple server agent
One command on Linux or Windows; it only connects out — no open ports, no collectors to run.
Backups you can prove
Encrypted backups to your own storage, and restore tests shown separately from backup status.
Recovery plans
Recovery plans with RPO / RTO, readiness checks and rehearsals that need real proof.
Provider connections
Read-only connections to Hetzner, Contabo, DigitalOcean, AWS, Azure and Vultr.
Email security
Daily SPF, DKIM and DMARC grading, DNS change alerts, blacklist and open-port checks.
Evidence for auditors
Approvals, audit trail and a one-download evidence pack mapped to ISO 27001.
Where Better Stack is stronger
Questions
Is TBS Infrastructure a replacement for Better Stack?
Not for everything. If you need on-call schedules, logs, traces or error tracking, Better Stack covers those and TBS Infrastructure does not. For server health, backups with restore tests and recovery plans, TBS Infrastructure covers more.
Does TBS Infrastructure need Prometheus or OpenTelemetry?
No. Its own small agent sends server health; it is installed with one command on Linux or Windows.
Does TBS Infrastructure have a free plan?
No. You can try the live demo with a sample company and use the free domain health check, both without signing up.
Where is TBS Infrastructure hosted?
In Finland (EU) by default. Other regions can be agreed for larger customers.
How current is this comparison?
Better Stack details were taken from their public pricing page on 27 Oct 2026. Plans change, so please check their website.
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