Company Overview
Better Uptime was founded in 2021 by Mislav Čakarić, Tino Kovačević, and their team. It is a remote-first company with its founding team originally from Croatia/Europe. Better Uptime is a next-generation all-in-one monitoring, status page, and incident management platform that seamlessly integrates uptime monitoring, alerting, heartbeat checks, and incident response into a single unified service.
Unlike traditional disjointed monitoring tools, Better Uptime enables teams to complete the full incident lifecycle — from fault detection to user notification and post-incident review — within a single platform. Its clean, modern UI and minimal setup time (add a URL and start monitoring in minutes) have made it a popular choice among modern DevOps teams.
Related providers: Better Uptime Monitoring Services
Core Products
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| Uptime Monitoring | Multi-type checks including HTTP/HTTPS, Ping, port, and Cron Job |
| Status Pages | Branded public/private status pages with custom domain support |
| Heartbeat | Cron Job and background task heartbeat monitoring |
| SSL Monitoring | Automatic SSL certificate expiry detection and alerting |
| Incident Management | End-to-end incident creation, notification, updates, and post-mortem |
| API & Webhooks | REST API and webhook integrations for automated operations workflows |
Key Milestones
- 2021: Better Uptime founded by Mislav Čakarić, Tino Kovačević, and team
- 2022: Heartbeat monitoring and incident management features launched
- 2024+: Continued expansion of API integrations and automation capabilities
Market Position
Better Uptime competes with the following providers in the monitoring, status page, and incident management market:
| Competitor | Differentiation |
|---|---|
| StatusCake | Comprehensive uptime monitoring and status page services |
| Pingdom (SolarWinds) | SolarWinds-owned traditional uptime monitoring |
| Checkly | Playwright-native synthetic monitoring for development teams |
| UptimeRobot | Lightweight free uptime monitoring service |
| Instatus | Status page focused service with lightweight monitoring |
| Cachet (Open Source) | Open-source status page system |
