betterstack-cli

betterstack-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from abdullahkhawer/devops-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (788 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for accessing Better Stack through its web APIs, the interfaces programs use to query monitoring services. It covers logs, uptime monitors, and incidents for configured teams and environments.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for querying logs, checking monitor status, and inspecting or managing incidents in Better Stack.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a consistent way to inspect operational issues while keeping access tokens out of command output. It also distinguishes the separate APIs used for logs and uptime data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for querying logs, checking monitor status, and inspecting or managing incidents in Better Stack.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abdullahkhawer/devops-skills/betterstack-cli
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add abdullahkhawer/devops-skills --skill betterstack-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abdullahkhawer/devops-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 788 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00036 $0.00788
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00315
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00079

Measured 23d ago against content hash c7996ea6bcbb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

betterstack-cli scanned grade B with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 23d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

mkdir -p ~/.betterstack && echo "<your-api-token>" > <TOKEN_FILE> && chmod 600 <TOKEN_FILE>

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

description: Perform Better Stack (Logs, Uptime, Incidents) operations using the Better Stack HTTP API via curl. Use for querying logs, monitors, and incidents.
skills/betterstack-cli/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Better Stack CLI Skill

Use the instance and rules below when constructing all Better Stack API commands.

Configuration

Update the table below with your Better Stack credential file paths:

Environment Token File Team
Production ~/.betterstack/prod.token <your-prod-team>
Staging ~/.betterstack/staging.token <your-staging-team>

If the target environment is unclear, ask the user before running any command.

Prerequisites (one-time setup by user)

Generate a Better Stack API token (Settings → API tokens) for each environment and save it to the corresponding token file. Never print or display token values. Do not perform these steps yourself.

mkdir -p ~/.betterstack && echo "<your-api-token>" > <TOKEN_FILE> && chmod 600 <TOKEN_FILE>

Command Format

curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $(cat <TOKEN_FILE>)" \
  "https://<your-betterstack-api-host>/api/v<version>/<endpoint>" | jq .

Logs querying and Uptime/Incidents management use different API hosts — confirm the correct one for the operation with the user if unsure (telemetry API vs Uptime API).

Available API Endpoints

Read-only (safe, no confirmation needed)

Endpoint Method Description
/api/v2/monitors GET List uptime monitors
/api/v2/monitors/<id> GET Get a specific monitor
/api/v2/incidents GET List incidents
/api/v1/heartbeats GET List heartbeat checks
/api/v1/query (telemetry API) GET/POST Query log data

Mutating operations (confirm with user before running)

Endpoint Method Description
/api/v2/monitors POST Create a monitor
/api/v2/monitors/<id> PATCH Update a monitor
/api/v2/incidents/<id>/acknowledge POST Acknowledge an incident
/api/v2/incidents/<id>/resolve POST Resolve an incident

Never run — requires explicit human approval

Endpoint Method Reason
/api/v2/monitors/<id> DELETE Irreversible monitor deletion
/api/v2/heartbeats/<id> DELETE Irreversible heartbeat deletion
/api/v2/monitors/<id>/pause POST Stops monitoring silently, risking missed real outages

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 23d ago First seen · 75 lines · 36 tokens per session scan B c7996ea6bcbb

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betterstack-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository abdullahkhawer/devops-skills (8 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 788 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-23.

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