Building Outage Memory for AI Agents: Better Stack Connector for Cognee

A developer contributed a Better Stack connector to the cognee-community repository that pulls incident data from Better Stack's REST API v2 and ingests it into Cognee as structured markdown documents, so AI agents can query outage history through a knowledge graph. The connector handles pagination and exponential backoff retries on HTTP 429/5xx responses, and tags documents with cognee_document_source = "better_stack" so Cognee links endpoints, error codes and resolution steps for later recall.

High availability is the bedrock of any software system. Monitoring tools like Better Stack Better Uptime https://betterstack.com/uptime track endpoint heartbeats, SSL validity, API responsiveness, and on-call paging around the clock. Yet, when incidents happen, the knowledge is often trapped in incident dashboards and alert history logs. By integrating Better Stack with Cognee , we can transform infrastructure telemetry and outage reports into queryable knowledge graphs for AI engineering agents. Autonomous AI coding agents, DevOps assistants, and support bots frequently need infrastructure context: With the better stack connector for Cognee, this telemetry becomes part of the AI's long-term memory. The connector lives in packages/connector/better stack/ within cognee-community . The connector calls Better Stack's REST API v2 /incidents and /incidents/{id}/timeline , handling pagination and exponential retry backoff on HTTP 429/5xx responses. Each outage report is structured into markdown format for Cognee's entity extraction: Better Stack Incident: API Gateway 502 Bad Gateway - Status: resolved - Started At: 2026-10-12T08:00:00Z - Resolved At: 2026-10-12T08:14:00Z Root Cause & Description Upstream backend timed out during deployment rollback. Chronological Timeline - 2026-10-12T08:00:00Z Triggered - Monitor check failed 3 consecutive times - 2026-10-12T08:02:00Z Acknowledged - Engineer on-call acknowledged via Slack - 2026-10-12T08:14:00Z Resolved - Rollback completed and healthy probes returned HTTP 200 Because the source specifies cognee document source = "better stack" , Cognee treats each outage report as a first-class knowledge document. The graph links endpoints, error codes, and resolution steps so agents can recall operational history instantly. python import asyncio import cognee from cognee community connector better stack import better stack source async def main : source = better stack source await cognee.add source await cognee.cognify results = await cognee.search "Which services experienced downtime last week?" for res in results: print res if name == " main ": asyncio.run main Operational observability meets AI memory—ensuring your agents never forget past system lessons.