Connect Better Stack with Hookshot™ and your stack

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

Tools and triggers

What Agents can do in Better Stack

Available tools and events after Better Stack is connected.

  • Acknowledge Incident

    Tool to acknowledge an ongoing incident. Use when you need to mark an incident as being worked on, which prevents further escalations. Acknowledging an incident signals that someone is actively addressing the issue.

  • Create Escalation Policy

    Creates a new escalation policy for incident management. Escalation policies define who gets notified and in what order when incidents occur. Supports multiple step types: 'escalation' (notify members), 'instructions'…

  • Create Escalation Policy Group

    Tool to create a new escalation policy group. Use when you need to organize related escalation policies under a single logical group.

  • Create Heartbeat

    Tool to create a new heartbeat monitor for cron jobs and scheduled tasks. Use when you need to set up monitoring for a service that should send regular heartbeat signals.

  • Create Heartbeat Group

    Tool to create a new heartbeat group. Use when you need to organize related heartbeat checks under a single, logical group. Example prompt: "Create a new heartbeat group named 'Backend services'."

  • Create Incident

    Tool to create a new incident and alert the on-call person. Use when you need to manually report an incident or trigger escalation workflows. The incident will be routed according to the specified escalation policy or…

  • Create Incident Comment

    Tool to create a new comment on an incident. Use when you need to add documentation, updates, or notes to an existing incident in Better Stack.

  • Create Metadata

    Tool to create or update a metadata record for a resource. Metadata provides key-value associations for resources like monitors, heartbeats, or incidents. Use when you need to tag or annotate resources with custom…

  • Create Monitor

    Tool to create a new uptime monitor for a URL or service. Use when you need to set up monitoring for websites, APIs, servers, or network services. Supports multiple monitor types including HTTP/HTTPS status checks…

  • Create Monitor Group

    Tool to create a new monitor group. Use when you need to organize related monitors under a single, logical group for better dashboard organization.

  • Create on-Call Schedule

    Tool to create a new on-call schedule. Use when you need to set up a new on-call calendar for managing team rotations.

  • Create Outgoing Webhook Integration

    Tool to create a new outgoing webhook integration. Use when you need to register an endpoint to receive event notifications from Better Stack.

  • Create Severity Level

    Tool to create a new severity level (urgency) for incident management. Use when you need to define notification preferences for different incident severity levels.

  • Create Source Group

    Tool to create a new source group. Use when you have finalized the group name (and optional sort index) and need to organize related log sources under that group.

  • Create Status Page Group

    Tool to create a new status page group. Use when you need to organize related status pages under a single logical group with a descriptive name.

  • Create Status Page Report

    Tool to create a new status page report (incident or maintenance). Use when you need to publish a status update about an ongoing incident or scheduled maintenance on a status page.

  • Create Status Page Resource

    Tool to create a new status page resource. Use when you need to add a monitor, heartbeat, or other resource to a status page for public visibility tracking.

  • Create Status Page Section

    Tool to create a new section on a status page. Use when organizing resources into logical groups (e.g., by datacenter or service type). Leave name blank to hide the section header.

  • Create Status Update

    Tool to create a new status update for an existing status report. Use when you need to post an update about the current state of an incident or maintenance. The update can include a message, affected resources with…

  • Create Urgency Group

    Tool to create a new urgency group (severity group) for incident categorization. Use when you need to define severity levels for monitoring alerts and incidents.

  • Delete Escalation Policy

    Tool to delete an escalation policy by ID. Use when you need to permanently remove an existing escalation policy after confirming its ID.

  • Delete Escalation Policy Group

    Tool to delete an escalation policy group by ID. Use when you need to permanently remove an existing escalation policy group after confirming its ID.

  • Delete Heartbeat

    Tool to permanently delete a heartbeat by ID. Use when you need to remove a heartbeat that is no longer needed.

  • Delete Heartbeat Group

    Tool to permanently delete a heartbeat group by ID. Use when you need to remove a heartbeat group that is no longer needed.

Setup

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What a Protege can do after it starts.

Connection scope

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Team

Shared credential for production and unattended runs.

Personal

Tied to one user—only when the workflow needs their account.

Chat

Team-scoped for supported chat surfaces.

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