Migrate · RealUptime Monitor
Migrate from Better Stack
RealUptime's importer connects to Better Stack's own Uptime API with a token you create, reads your monitors, and shows a preview before anything is created. HTTP monitors come across in one step; everything else is listed so you can see what to rebuild by hand.
Already have a RealUptime account? Open Import from another service and paste a read-only Better Stack API key to bring your monitors across.
Rather send us the list? Email it to support@realuptime.io and we will import it within 48 hours.
Create a Better Stack Uptime API token
In Better Stack, open your team's API tokens page and create an Uptime API token. RealUptime's importer sends it once, as a Bearer token, to Better Stack's own GET https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/monitors, and reads back each monitor's name, URL, type and check frequency. The token is used for that one read and is not saved anywhere.
Import the monitors into RealUptime
On the dashboard's Import page, choose Better Stack and paste the token. You get a preview of every monitor before anything is created. Better Stack's plain HTTP monitors (the "status" and "expected status code" types) import directly, with their check frequency. Every other type stays in the preview, flagged as not imported, so nothing silently disappears; those you add by hand, or in bulk from a CSV file on the same page.
Map each monitor type
The table below maps Better Stack's monitor types onto RealUptime's check types. Where there is nothing to map to, it says so.
Feature mapping
Better Stack check types, mapped to RealUptime Monitor
Status / Expected status code
http · Have
Imported directly by the importer.
Keyword / Keyword absence
http · Partial
Not imported automatically; add as an http check by hand.
Ping
ping · Have
Added by hand; listed in the import preview.
TCP
tcp · Have
Added by hand; listed in the import preview.
DNS
dns · Have
Added by hand; listed in the import preview.
SMTP
smtp · Have
Added by hand; listed in the import preview.
Heartbeats
heartbeat · Have
Separate in Better Stack's API; recreate them as RealUptime heartbeats.
UDP / POP3 / IMAP / Playwright
No equivalent · Don’t have
RealUptime has no check type for these today.
What comes with the account here is all four products, not just the checks you are importing. RealUptime Monitor is the uptime and server side, free for 10 monitors and 5 servers. RealUptime Status is the public page those checks feed. RealUptime Errors catches the application exceptions an uptime check cannot see, free for 10,000 events a month. RealUptime Outages is the free public tracker for the vendors you depend on, which needs no account at all. One signup provisions the free tier of each, with no card.
Verified October 28, 2026. Sources: Better Stack Uptime API: list monitors, Better Stack pricing.
Ready to move your checks over?
For the full, sourced pricing and feature comparison against Better Stack, see Full Better Stack comparison. For why a check should run from more than one region at all, see why a status page can show all green during a real outage.