--- title: "Connect Better Stack and Bitly - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Monitor Status Change\" fires in Better Stack, your agent runs \"Update a User\" in Bitly." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/better-stack-to-bitly" --- # Connect Better Stack and Bitly When **New Monitor Status Change** fires in [Better Stack](https://apiant.ai/connections/better-stack), your agent runs **Update a User** in [Bitly](https://apiant.ai/connections/bitly), or **New Bitlink in Group** in Bitly to **Add Incident Comment** in Better Stack. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Better Stack **3** triggers Better Stack **13** actions Bitly **8** triggers Bitly **25** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Better Stack and Bitly to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Better Stack and Bitly can do together ### From Better Stack to Bitly - When **New Monitor Status Change** in Better Stack then **Update a User** in Bitly - When **New or Updated Incident** in Better Stack then **Add Custom Bitlink** in Bitly ### From Bitly to Better Stack - When **New Bitlink in Group** in Bitly then **Add Incident Comment** in Better Stack - When **New Branded Short Domain** in Bitly then **Add Heartbeat** in Better Stack Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Better Stack and Bitly ## Triggers and actions 11 triggers · 38 actions - Trigger **New Monitor Status Change** Fires when a monitor's status changes (up/down). - Trigger **New or Updated Incident** Triggers when new incidents are created, or when existing incidents are updated. - Trigger **On-Call Contact Changed** Triggers when an on-call contact changes. - Action **Acknowledge Incident** Acknowledges an incident. - Action **Add Heartbeat** Create a new heartbeat check. - Action **Add Incident Comment** Adds a comment to an incident. - Action **Add Monitor** Create a new uptime monitor. - Action **Create Incident** Creates an incident that notifies the team. - Action **Delete Heartbeat** Remove a heartbeat check by id. - Action **Delete Monitor** Delete an uptime monitor by id. - Action **Find Incident** Finds an Incident. - Action **Find On-Call Contact** Finds On-Call Contact. Supports time lookup. - Action **Get Monitor** Retrieve a single monitor by id. - Action **List Monitors** List all uptime monitors. - Action **Resolve Incident** Resolves an incident. - Action **Update Monitor** Update an existing monitor's settings. - Trigger **New Bitlink in Group** Triggers when a new Bitlink appears in the group. - Trigger **New Branded Short Domain** Triggers when a new branded short domain is added. - Trigger **New Channel** Triggers when a new channel is created. - Trigger **New Group** Triggers when a new group is created. - Trigger **New Organization** Triggers when a new organization is created. - Trigger **New QR Code in Group** Triggers when a new QR code appears in the group. - Trigger **New Sorted Bitlink in Group** Triggers when a new Bitlink appears in the group's sorted ranking. - Trigger **New Tag in Group** Triggers when a new tag appears in the group. - Action **Add Custom Bitlink** create a custom (branded) Bitlink - Action **Bulk update bitlinks** bulk update Bitlinks in a group - Action **Create an inline CSV export for a group** create an inline CSV export for a group - Action **Create Bitlink** Shortens a long URL into a Bitlink. Optionally set a title and a branded custom domain. - Action **Delete a Bitlink** delete a Bitlink - Action **Expand Bitlink** Returns the long destination URL for a Bitlink ID. - Action **Generate a static QR Code image** generate a static QR code image - Action **Get Group Limit Usage** Returns a Bitly group's current feature limit usage, with the count used for each limit. - Action **Get Plan Limits** Returns all plan limits and their current usage counts for a Bitly organization. - Action **Get Platform Limits** Returns the organization's platform limits and current usage counts per API endpoint. - Action **Get QR Code Image** Fetches a QR code's rendered image by QR code ID. The image is saved to APIANT temporary storage and returned as a file reference, so it can be emailed, uploaded or attached in a later step. An error occurs if the QR code is not found. - Action **Get Top Links and QR Codes by Engagement** Returns a group's top-performing bitlinks and decoupled QR codes ranked by engagement count over a chosen reporting window. - Action **Retrieve Bitlink** Fetches the details of a single Bitlink by its ID. - Action **Retrieve Custom Bitlink** Returns the Bitlink that a custom (branded) short link points to, along with that Bitlink's details — destination URL, title, tags, and created timestamp. An error occurs if the custom Bitlink is not found. - Action **Retrieve Group** Fetches a single Bitly group (workspace) by its GUID, returning the group's name, organization, role, status, and branded short domains. An error occurs if the group is not found. - Action **Retrieve Group Preferences** Fetches the preferences for a single Bitly group (workspace) by its GUID, returning the group's default short domain. An error occurs if the group is not found. - Action **Retrieve Organization** Fetches a single Bitly organization by its GUID, returning the organization's name, subscription tier, role, status, and branded short domains. An error occurs if the organization is not found. - Action **Retrieve QR Code** Returns the details of a single QR code by its ID — title, the Bitlink and destination URLs it encodes, its type, tags, and created/updated timestamps. This returns the QR code's information only, not the scannable image file; use Get QR Code Image for that. An error occurs if the QR code is not found. - Action **Retrieve User** Returns the Bitly user account the connection is authenticated as, including its login, name, email addresses, activity flags and default group. - Action **Shorten a Link** shorten a long URL into a Bitlink - Action **Update a Group** update a group - Action **Update a QR Code** update a QR code - Action **Update a User** update the authenticated user - Action **Update Bitlink** Updates a Bitlink's title, tags, or archived state. - Action **Update Group Preferences** update group preferences ## Each app on its own - [ **Better Stack** Better Stack is a tool to provide reliable monitoring with voice calls and beautiful on-call scheduling.](https://apiant.ai/connections/better-stack) - [ **Bitly** Bitly is a link-management platform for shortening, branding, and tracking URLs.](https://apiant.ai/connections/bitly) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Better Stack - [ **Better Stack to PagerDuty** PagerDuty is an incident management and on-call alerting platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/better-stack-to-pagerduty) - [ **Better Stack to Mailsoftly** Mailsoftly is a free email marketing tool designed to send personalized emails and newsletters.](https://apiant.ai/connect/better-stack-to-mailsoftly) - [ **Better Stack to Telegram** Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service developed by Telegram Messenger LLP.](https://apiant.ai/connect/better-stack-to-telegram) - [ **Better Stack to Vdocipher** Video hosting platform with DRM encryption, watermarking, and APIs to prevent piracy of streamed video...](https://apiant.ai/connect/better-stack-to-vdocipher) - [ **Better Stack to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/better-stack-to-hubspot) - [ **Better Stack to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/better-stack-to-slack) ## More into Bitly - [ **Asana to Bitly** Asana is a collaborative information manager for workspace.](https://apiant.ai/connect/asana-to-bitly) - [ **Zoom to Bitly** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/zoom-to-bitly) - [ **Airbrake to Bitly** Airbrake collects errors generated by other applications, and aggregates the results for review.](https://apiant.ai/connect/airbrake-to-bitly) - [ **Aplos to Bitly** Aplos is fund accounting and donor management software for churches and nonprofits: contacts and donors...](https://apiant.ai/connect/aplos-to-bitly) - [ **Beehiiv to Bitly** Beehiiv is a newsletter publishing and audience growth platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/beehiiv-to-bitly) - [ **BigML to Bitly** BigML is a machine learning platform for building, evaluating, and running predictive models.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bigml-to-bitly) Questions ## Better Stack and Bitly, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Better Stack? Any of Better Stack's 3 triggers in the catalog, including New Monitor Status Change, New or Updated Incident and On-Call Contact Changed. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Bitly when something happens in Better Stack? Any of Bitly's 25 actions, including Create an inline CSV export for a group, Create Bitlink, Update a Group and Update a QR Code. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Bitly to Better Stack? Yes. When something happens in Bitly, your agent can act in Better Stack too. This page covers both directions: Bitly's triggers and Better Stack's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Better Stack or Bitly? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Better Stack and Bitly without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.