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Better Stack

Better Stack is a platform for monitoring and alerting on your applications.
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What is Better Stack?

Better Stack is a monitoring bot. Better Stack is a platform for monitoring and alerting on your applications.

Better Stack is an operational bot rather than an AI crawler, so it does not directly affect whether you appear in AI answers. It still shows up in your logs, and bots like it help keep your site healthy and crawlable, which indirectly supports both SEO and AI visibility.

Like any automated client, Better Stack consumes crawl budget and appears in your server and CDN logs. Reviewing those logs alongside your robots.txt rules helps you keep automated traffic deliberate and easy to reason about.

Want to see every AI bot hitting your site? Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic, so you can watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and others crawl your pages and connect those visits to real citations and revenue. Learn more in AI crawler logs.

See every AI bot hitting your site

Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic. Watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and more crawl your pages in real time, see exactly what they take, and connect every crawl to the citations and revenue it drives.

How to handle Better Stack

Whether to allow Better Stack depends on whether you rely on the service behind it. Use a robots.txt rule to allow or disallow it.

To control Better Stack, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: BetterStack
Disallow: /

Replace the user-agent token above with the exact string Better Stack sends, check the operator's documentation, since display names and user-agent tokens can differ.

Better Stack generally honors robots.txt directives.

Examples

  • A site owner spots Better Stack in access logs and confirms it against the operator's documented user agent.
  • An operations team allows Better Stack so the service it powers keeps working as expected.

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Frequently asked questions about Better Stack

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Better Stack is a monitoring bot; its operator is identified in its user-agent string and public documentation.

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