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Axiom vs Checkly: which is more reliable? (2026)
Checkly is more reliable than Axiom, scoring 91.1 vs 63.5 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Axiom reported 9 incidents and Checkly reported 6, with effective uptime of 99.50% and 99.96% respectively. Checkly resolves incidents faster on average (1h 54m).
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Axiom | Checkly |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 63.5 | 91.1 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #13 | #3 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.50% | 99.96% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 9 | 6 |
| Partial / major outages | 4 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 6h 36m | 1h 54m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Axiom and Checkly differ
- Axiom reported 50% more incidents than Checkly over the last 90 days (9 vs 6).
- Axiom had 4 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Checkly.
- Checkly fixes problems faster: 1h 54m on average, against 6h 36m for Axiom (3.5× quicker).
- Axiom's longest outage on record lasted 4h 22m (May 15, 2026); Checkly's lasted 3h 10m (Oct 7, 2026).
90-day uptime
Axiom
Checkly
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Axiom incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 30, 2026 · resolved in 1h 7m
Affected: Ingest
- Partial outageOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 2h 38m
Elevated errors from queriesofficial update ↗
Affected: Alerting, Querying
- Degraded performanceOct 25, 2026 · resolved in 1h 4m
Queries on Metrics Datasets Suffer from Elevated Error Rates
Affected: Querying
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 33m
Affected: Querying
- Partial outageOct 15, 2026 · resolved in 54m
Metrics query failures in US region
Affected: Querying
- Partial outageOct 15, 2026 · resolved in 12m
Metrics ingestion and query disruption
Affected: Ingest
Recent Checkly incidents
- Degraded performanceNov 1, 2026 · resolved in 1h 40m
- Degraded performanceOct 7, 2026 · resolved in 3h 10m
- Degraded performanceOct 5, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceSep 23, 2026 · resolved in 53m
Performance Degradation for Playwright Check Suites in us-east-1
- Degraded performanceSep 18, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceAug 10, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
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Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- Rollbar · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- New Relic · #4 · 99.92% uptime
- UptimeRobot · #5 · 99.93% uptime
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