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An AI teammate for Better Stack.

Connect Better Stack and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 26 Better Stack actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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Things to ask about Better Stack
  • What broke in Better Stack overnight, and is it new?
  • Open a Better Stack issue for this bug with the steps from the Slack thread.
  • Summarise this week's Better Stack activity for the standup.
  • Tell me when something in Better Stack needs my attention.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Better Stack

26 Better Stack actions, picked for what you ask.

About Better Stack: Better Stack provides monitoring, logging, and incident management solutions to help teams ensure the reliability and performance of their applications.

Reads

17 in all · always allowed
  • Get Monitor
    Get a single monitor. use when you need full details of a specific monitor by its id.
  • Get Heartbeat
    Get a single heartbeat by id. use when you need to fetch details of a specific heartbeat.
  • List Monitors
    List all monitors. use when you need to retrieve existing uptime monitors with optional filtering…
  • Get Status Page
    Get a single status page by id. use when you need detailed information about a specific status page.
  • List Heartbeats
    List all heartbeats. use when you need to retrieve your configured uptime heartbeats with optional…
  • List Status Pages
    List all your status pages. use when you need to retrieve existing status pages with optional…
  • Get Uptime API Token
    Retrieve the configured uptime api token. use when you need the uptime api token for subsequent…
  • List Catalog Relations
    List all catalog relations. use when you need to retrieve all catalog relations, supports…
  • List On-Call Schedules
    List all on-call schedules. use when you need to retrieve all configured on-call calendars.
  • Get Telemetry API Token
    Retrieve the telemetry api token from the integration configuration.
  • Get Monitor Availability
    Return an availability summary for a specific monitor. use when you need uptime percentage and…

Changes

9 in all · off when Better Stack is read-only
  • Update Heartbeat
    Update an existing heartbeat configuration. use after retrieving a heartbeat and choosing which…
  • Create Source Group
    Create a new source group. use when you have finalized the group name (and optional sort index) and…
  • Delete Source Group
    Delete a source group by id. use when you need to permanently remove an existing source group after…
  • Update Source Group
    Update an existing source group. use when you need to rename or reorder a source group.
  • Create Heartbeat Group
    Create a new heartbeat group. use when you need to organize related heartbeat checks under a…
  • Update Heartbeat Group
    Update an existing heartbeat group. use when you need to modify attributes like name, interval, or…
  • Create Escalation Policy
    Create a new escalation policy. use when defining how incidents should escalate across team members.
  • Delete Escalation Policy
    Delete an escalation policy by id. use when you need to permanently remove an existing escalation…
  • Create Outgoing Webhook Integration
    Create a new outgoing webhook integration. use when you need to register an endpoint to receive…

Showing 20 of 26. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Better Stack

    Open Connections, find Better Stack and paste an API key from your Better Stack account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Better Stack with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Better Stack job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Better Stack, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

Questions

Better Stack and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Better Stack?

Yes. Better Stack is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Better Stack?

Open Connections, find Better Stack and paste an API key from your Better Stack account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Better Stack?

26 actions: 17 that read from Better Stack and 9 that change things in it, for example get monitor, get heartbeat, list monitors. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Better Stack?

Yes. In Connections, set Better Stack to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Better Stack from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Better Stack jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Better Stack data safe?

Your Better Stack login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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