The Curious Engineer

Better Stack

2022–2026

63 posts

2026 10

October 2026

  1. Changelog #10: Dashboard alerts Alerts on dashboards just got an upgrade! Never miss and incident with improved anomaly detection and streamline your alert setup using multi-sources alerts. Here's how to take your alerts to the n... Changelog Blog · Updated on July 23, 2025
  2. Changelog #5: Chart with a single click & customize Live tail columns We've just made Live tail more powerful! Keep the important information always visible and explore your logs faster than ever before. Ready to chart values in your logs with a single click? Want to... Changelog Blog · Updated on A
  3. Changelog #11: Microsoft Teams integration We've just released an upgraded Microsoft Teams integration! Handle your entire incident management process from the initial report to the final resolution without leaving Teams. You can now stream... Changelog Blog · Updated on August 8, 2025

September 2026

  1. Changelog #12: MCP server We’re excited to introduce Better Stack MCP server! Get an extra pair of hands when resolving incidents. Let AI analyze the latest logs and errors to uncover the root cause, assist with status page... Changelog Blog · Updated on September 15, 2025

August 2026

  1. Changelog #13: On-call scheduling You asked, we listened! We've just shipped an upgraded on-call scheduling experience to help you manage on-calls with confidence. On-call schedules are now more flexible and easier to adjust. See w... Changelog Blog · Updated on October 18, 2025

May 2026

  1. Graphify: Building a Knowledge Graph of Your Codebase for AI Assistants | Better Stack Community

April 2026

  1. Google Gemma 4: Per-Layer Embeddings, Multimodality, and On-Device Performance | Better Stack Community
  2. Changelog #6: Always know who's on-call We've made it much simpler to keep up with who is on‑call. No more wondering who's going to be notified. Are you running multiple on-call rotations or teams? Quickly view all schedules at once for... Changelog Blog · Updated on May 13, 2025

March 2026

  1. Changelog #14: Incident filtering Incident filtering is now live! It’s easier than ever to find the incidents you need. Filter by status, duration, affected resource, and more. Here's what's new. Find any incident in just a few cl... Changelog Blog · Updated on November 13, 2025

February 2026

  1. React Doctor: Find React Anti-Patterns Fast | Better Stack Community

2025 31

December 2025

  1. React2Shell and React Server Components Remote Code Execution Explained | Better Stack Community
  2. Introduction to Django 6.0 Background Tasks | Better Stack Community
  3. Using React Grab to speed up AI-assisted coding | Better Stack Community

November 2025

  1. eBPF-based OpenTelemetry tracing We're introducing eBPF-based OpenTelemetry tracing alongside a remotely controlled Better Stack collector. eBPF is ready for prime time. Here's the playbook for adopting it. What's eBPF? The Exte... Blog · Updated on March 19, 2026

October 2025

  1. Changelog #15: Prompt a dashboard in 60 seconds You don't have to build dashboards by hand anymore! Connect a database, AWS, GCP, or Azure and instantly get pre-made dashboards. Then ask AI SRE to build tailor-made dashboards for your applicatio... Changelog Blog · Updated on August 10, 2026

September 2025

  1. Ruby on Rails vs Phoenix | Better Stack Community
  2. Changelog #16: Fix errors with AI SRE You shouldn't have to fix every error yourself. Hand any error to AI SRE and get back a pull request with the fix, from your desk or your phone. Here's how to fix errors with AI SRE. Turn an error ... Changelog Blog · Updated on September 9, 2026
  3. Changelog #1: Mobile apps & customizable critical alerts We've released brand new iOS and Android apps and customizable critical notifications. Never miss an incident again — even when you're away from your desk. View your on-call schedule, make shift ad... Changelog Blog · Updated on March 12, 2025
  4. 7 Best Engineering Newsletters (Every CTO Should Read) Newsletters are a thing now. There are many engineering-focused newsletters out there, but only a few are worth your time. That’s why we picked 6 — that are definitely worth it. We asked everyone w... Blog · Updated on July 31, 2024
  5. Ruby on Rails vs Laravel vs Django | Better Stack Community

August 2025

  1. Changelog #17: Wake up your AI agent before getting paged Every second matters when an incident happens. AI SRE investigates your incidents, pulls all the evidence, and gives you a root cause analysis. Focus on decision making and the fix itself, and leav... Changelog Blog · Updated on October 1, 20

July 2025

  1. Getting started | Better Stack Documentation
  2. How Better Stack uses Better Stack MCP The feature our team loves most is our MCP server. Here's one working day across our engineering team, plus the prompts we use, so you can steal them. Blog · Updated on October 22, 2026
  3. 100x Software Engineering There's a subtle art to crafting amazing software at a pace that leaves your competition in the dust. Blog · Updated on October 13, 2023
  4. Getting Started with GraphQL and Express | Better Stack Community
  5. Quick and Dirty vs. Polished and Perfect: The Two Sides of Engineering Every great engineer knows how to toggle between two fundamentally different, yet equally important styles of work: "Let's wing it" hacking and corporate-level "measure twice, cut once" engineering. Blog · Updated on October 13,

June 2025

  1. We’re decreasing the price of metrics by 200x I screwed up — and I want to apologize. Going forward, we’ll be adjusting the price for 1 billion of retained metrics data points from $1,000 to $5. That’s 200x cheaper. Blog · Updated on October 15, 2024

May 2025

  1. Error tracking now generally available We're making Better Stack Error tracking generally available. Sentry-compatible. AI-native. At 1/6th the price. Here's why we built it, and how to get the most out of it. What's wrong with error ... Blog · Updated on April 1, 2026
  2. Changelog #19: Better Stack plugin for Claude Better Stack AI SRE now works right inside Claude! Investigate incidents, fix errors automatically and set up your monitoring from Claude that knows your code and your telemetry. Here's how to dele... Changelog Blog · Updated on October 29, 2026
  3. GraphQL vs REST | Better Stack Community

April 2025

  1. Changelog #18: New native mobile apps We've rebuilt the Better Stack mobile apps as fully native apps for iOS and Android! Incidents open faster, scrolling the timeline is smoother, and AI SRE chats stream in real time. Here's what you... Changelog Blog · Updated on October 15, 2026
  2. Deploying Grafana on Kubernetes using Helm Charts | Better Stack Community
  3. Work Multipliers: The Hidden Productivity Killers How the seemingly harmless "hey, could you please add this one simple feature" can crush your team's delivery speed forever. Blog · Updated on November 23, 2023
  4. Introduction to Django ORM | Better Stack Community
  5. Testing basics | Better Stack Community
  6. Product 101: Consistency One often-overlooked aspect of great software is that it feels like it was designed by a single person through & through. Or so it seems. Blog · Updated on October 11, 2023

March 2025

  1. 10 Best Engineering Podcasts for CTOs Listen to the best podcasts for CTOs to stay up-to-date on the latest trends and insights in technology leadership CTO Podcasts Blog · Updated on February 26, 2025
  2. The 15 Best Engineering Blogs that every CTO Should Read Read some of the best blogs for CTOs to stay up to date on engineering topics of all sorts. CTO Blog · Updated on September 15, 2025
  3. A Comprehensive Guide to Logrus Logging in Go | Better Stack Community
  4. Introduction to Modern Load Testing with Grafana K6 | Better Stack Community

February 2025

  1. Changelog #2: Live tail presets & Explain with AI We’ve upgraded your log browsing experience — see log and error spikes at glance, easily filter logs with Live tail presets, and explain your logs with AI in an all-new Live tail design. Want to sa... Changelog Blog · Updated on March 25, 2025

2024 13

December 2024

  1. How to Duplicate a Dashboard? | Better Stack Community

November 2024

  1. Logstash Configtest | Better Stack Community
  2. How to Configure Syslog so That an Applications Log Goes to a Specific File | Better Stack Community

October 2024

  1. Removing Old Indices in Elasticsearch | Better Stack Community
  2. Changelog #7: Control your log ingestion Say goodbye to complicated log shipper configs and the hassle of deciding which logs to ship from your apps. Filter, transform, and redact incoming logs at ingest directly in Better Stack. Control... Changelog Blog · Updated on June 18, 2025
  3. Nginx - Nginx: [Emerg] Bind() to [::]:80 Failed (98: Address Already in Use) | Better Stack Community

September 2024

  1. Introduction to the OpenTelemetry SDK | Better Stack Community

August 2024

  1. Another Git Process Seems to Be Running in This Repository | Better Stack Community
  2. Create a Git Patch From the Uncommitted Changes in the Current Working Directory | Better Stack Community

July 2024

  1. The Most Advanced AI Weather Model in the World Relies on Render and Better Stack A conversation with Kai Marshland, founder of WindBorne Systems Weather forecasting is one of the most computationally and data-intensive challenges in the world—literally so complex that early com... Blog · Updated on
  2. Download a Single Folder or Directory from a Github Repository | Better Stack Community

June 2024

  1. How Do I Revert All Local Changes in Git Managed Project to Previous State? | Better Stack Community

January 2024

  1. How to Reduce Logging Costs with Log Sampling | Better Stack Community

2023 5

November 2023

  1. Changelog #4: More powerful incident grouping We've upgraded one of our favorite features — incident grouping. It's now easier than ever to reduce noise and make sure incident grouping works exactly as you need. Want to make sure your producti... Changelog Blog · Updated on April 11, 2025

October 2023

  1. Changelog #9: Advanced data options for everyone We’re bringing enterprise-level data options to everyone on the Pay as you go plan! Choose where your telemetry data is stored. Pick from available data regions or configure your own custom S3 buck... Changelog Blog · Updated on July 22, 2025
  2. Changelog #8: Filter by patterns and services Live tail just got an upgrade! Find the logs you need faster with pattern‑based filtering and service discovery. Intuitively filter logs without digging for specific log fields. View similar log m... Changelog Blog · Updated on July 7, 2025
  3. Changelog #3: Request cover & Escalate to next person Find out how to request on-call cover, create overrides, and escalate to the next on-call person — all from your phone. Need someone to cover your on-call? Got paged while away-from-keyboard? No ne... Changelog Blog · Updated on April 3, 2025

April 2023

  1. What is the difference between "expose" and "publish" in Docker? | Better Stack Community

2022 4

December 2022

  1. Splunk vs Elastic/ELK Stack: The Key Differences to Know | Better Stack Community

June 2022

  1. Log Levels Explained and How to Use Them | Better Stack Community

January 2022

  1. A Complete Guide to Managing Log Files with Logrotate | Better Stack Community
  2. Solved: Crontab bad minute error | Better Stack Community