BetterStack is a modern, full-stack website uptime monitoring platform designed with scalability and real-time observability in mind. It features:
- 🔄 Real-time backend using Redis Streams
- 🌍 Distributed, region-based monitoring with auto-scaling workers
- 🖥️ A sleek dashboard built with Next.js + Tailwind CSS
- ⚙️ Background workers that track uptime and response times
- 📡 Periodic queueing of websites via a pusher service
All wrapped in a modular monorepo powered by Turborepo.
📌 The system is built with clear separation of concerns:
- Frontend: Dashboard and monitoring views
- Backend: API layer for websites/regions
- Pusher: Periodically adds websites to Redis queue
- Worker: Distributed consumers processing uptime checks
| Layer | Tech |
|---|---|
| Monorepo | Turborepo |
| Frontend | Next.js, Tailwind CSS |
| Backend | Express.js |
| Queue | Redis Streams |
| Database | PostgreSQL via Prisma ORM |
| Worker | Node.js — for distributed region-based website checks |
| Pusher | Node.js — queues websites every 3 minutes |
🔗 Watch BetterStack in Action (YouTube)
Dashboard
Monitoring View
- ✅ Add regions and websites dynamically
- 🔄 Automatically create consumer groups for new regions
- 🚀 Launch new workers per region using Redis
XGROUP - ⏱ Real-time monitoring with response time metrics
- 📊 Scalable architecture with separate services for pushing, processing, and viewing data