Better Stack · Capability
Better Stack Incident Response
Unified incident response workflow combining Better Stack uptime monitoring, heartbeat monitoring, and incident management. Used by SRE teams and on-call engineers to detect, acknowledge, and resolve infrastructure incidents.
What You Can Do
GET
List monitors
— List all uptime monitors
/v1/monitors
POST
Create monitor
— Create a new uptime monitor
/v1/monitors
GET
Get monitor
— Get monitor details
/v1/monitors/{id}
PATCH
Update monitor
— Update a monitor
/v1/monitors/{id}
DELETE
Delete monitor
— Delete a monitor
/v1/monitors/{id}
GET
Get monitor availability
— Get monitor availability summary
/v1/monitors/{id}/availability
GET
List heartbeats
— List all heartbeats
/v1/heartbeats
POST
Create heartbeat
— Create a heartbeat monitor
/v1/heartbeats
GET
List incidents
— List all incidents
/v1/incidents
POST
Create incident
— Create a manual incident
/v1/incidents
GET
Get incident
— Get incident details
/v1/incidents/{id}
DELETE
Delete incident
— Delete an incident
/v1/incidents/{id}
POST
Acknowledge incident
— Acknowledge an active incident
/v1/incidents/{id}/acknowledge
POST
Resolve incident
— Resolve an active incident
/v1/incidents/{id}/resolve
MCP Tools
list-monitors
List all uptime monitors to check what is being monitored
read-only
create-monitor
Create a new uptime monitor for a URL or API
get-monitor
Get details for a specific uptime monitor
read-only
get-monitor-availability
Get availability metrics for a monitor
read-only
list-heartbeats
List all heartbeat monitors for scheduled jobs
read-only
get-heartbeat-availability
Get availability for a heartbeat monitor
read-only
list-incidents
List incidents with optional date and filter parameters
read-only
get-incident
Get details for a specific incident
read-only
create-incident
Create a manual incident
acknowledge-incident
Acknowledge an active incident to indicate someone is working on it
idempotent
resolve-incident
Resolve an active incident once the issue is fixed
idempotent
Who This Is For
SRE Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer managing infrastructure uptime and incident response
On-Call Engineer
Engineer on-call rotation responsible for responding to incidents
APIs Used
better-stack