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title: "How to switch from Better Stack to Lemwatch"
description: "Better Stack documents a single call that hands you the whole monitor list: GET https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/monitors, authenticated with an Uptime…"
canonical: "https://lemwatch.com/migrate/betteruptime"
source: "https://lemwatch.com"
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# Migrating from Better Stack to Lemwatch

> Better Stack documents a single call that hands you the whole monitor list: GET https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/monitors, authenticated with an Uptime API token.

## Exporting your monitors

 Use GET https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/monitors ('List monitors' in the Better Stack docs). The response is paginated JSON containing the URL, check frequency and request settings for each monitor, which is everything you need to recreate them elsewhere.

## Exporting your history

 Better Stack's docs cover SLA and report resources, but we could not confirm a specific bulk history-export endpoint on 4 August 2026 — so treat incident history as needing a manual pull from the dashboard reports before you close the account.

## Things that catch people out

- Monitors and on-call escalation policies are separate objects in Better Stack, so the monitor export alone does not carry your paging rotas — screenshot or re-enter those separately.
- The monitors endpoint is paginated: a single unpaged request silently returns only the first page, which is the classic way teams migrate 40 monitors and lose 60.
- We found no public retention statement for cancelled Better Stack accounts as of 4 August 2026, so export before cancelling rather than after.

 Export mechanics verified on 2026-08-04 against [Better Stack's own documentation](https://betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/list-all-existing-monitors/).


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