# BetterStack API for AI Agents

AI SRE and MCP server, incident management, on-call, logs, metrics, traces, and error tracking. 7000+ happy customers. 60-day money back guarantee. Call the BetterStack API from the agent stack you already run. Swytchcode supplies the manifest, then handles authentication, retries, idempotency, and validation on every call.

**Copy paste to your AI agent**

**Build me a BetterStack AI assistant**  
Set up [Swytchcode Skills](/content/skills.md)

[Visit official site](https://betterstack.com/)  
[View documentation](https://betterstack.com/docs/getting-started/welcome/)

## Use cases

## What can you build with the BetterStack API?

1. Call BetterStack directly from an AI agent without writing custom auth, retry, or error-handling code.
2. Get the right endpoints and call sequence for the workflow you need, instead of having the agent explore the BetterStack API surface.
3. Chain BetterStack with other approved integrations in one workflow, each step validated against your policy before it runs.
4. Give an agent safe read/write access to BetterStack in production, with idempotent retries if a call fails.

## Setup guide

## How to connect the BetterStack API to an AI agent

Four steps, no SDK, no boilerplate. Every BetterStack call routed through Swytchcode is idempotency-keyed and safe to retry.

1. **Install the CLI**  
   Run "npx swytchcode" to install the Swytchcode CLI—no account required to start.

2. **Pull the manifest**  
   Run "swytchcode get better_stack" to pull the BetterStack API manifest, including its schema and available actions.

3. **Authenticate once**  
   Provide your BetterStack API credentials a single time. Swytchcode stores and refreshes them so your agent never handles raw secrets.

4. **Call it from your agent**  
   Run "swytchcode exec better_stack.<action> --key value" from any agent or script. No SDK, no framework lock-in.

**Copy**
```
swytchcode get better_stack
swytchcode exec better_stack.<action> --key value
```

## FAQ

### Frequently asked questions

- **What is Swytchcode?**
- **How do I get started with Swytchcode?**
- **How does an AI agent actually call the BetterStack API through Swytchcode?**
- **What happens if a BetterStack call fails, times out, or hits a rate limit?**
- **Can I restrict which BetterStack actions my agent is allowed to run?**
- **Where does Swytchcode store my BetterStack credentials?**
- **Do I need to write a custom BetterStack SDK integration for my agent?**
- **How is calling BetterStack through Swytchcode different from calling its API directly?**
- **Do I need a specific framework to call BetterStack?**
- **Does Swytchcode log what my agent does with BetterStack?**

## Build me a BetterStack AI assistant

Copy the prompt into your agent. It will load Swytchcode and wire up BetterStack.