Better Stack heartbeats or a dedicated cron monitor?
20 checks free.
Better Stack offers heartbeat monitors as one feature of a platform that also includes uptime monitoring, on-call scheduling, phone and SMS alerts, status pages and log management. If your team already lives in Better Stack, its heartbeats are the obvious choice: one place for all alerts and one on-call schedule.
Choose Better Stack heartbeats if
- You already pay for Better Stack.
- You need phone calls and on-call rotations when a job fails.
- You want job failures in the same incident flow as your uptime alerts and logs.
Choose Ping Clock if
- You don't need a full observability platform.
- You have lots of scheduled jobs and want a flat price for them.
- You want cron expressions with time zones, exit-code pings, run durations and log tails, built around jobs specifically.
Pricing
Better Stack's pricing spans several products and changes often, so we haven't quoted it. Check their pricing page for heartbeat limits on each plan. Ours: 20 checks free, 100 for $9, 500 for $29, 2,000 for $79.
FAQ
Can I send Ping Clock alerts into an on-call tool?
Yes, through a generic webhook to any tool that accepts incoming events.