Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Better Stack vs Splunk Observability Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
Splunk Observability Cloud is more reliable than Better Stack, scoring 77.7 vs 64.7 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Better Stack reported 5 incidents and Splunk Observability Cloud reported 13, with effective uptime of 99.61% and 99.74% respectively. Splunk Observability Cloud resolves incidents faster on average (2h 7m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Better Stack | Splunk Observability Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 64.7 | 77.7 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #12 | #9 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.61% | 99.74% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 13 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 3 |
| Avg time to resolve | 18h 4m | 2h 7m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Better Stack and Splunk Observability Cloud differ
- Splunk Observability Cloud reported 2.6× as many incidents as Better Stack over the last 90 days (13 vs 5).
- Splunk Observability Cloud had 3 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Better Stack.
- Splunk Observability Cloud fixes problems faster: 2h 7m on average, against 18h 4m for Better Stack (8.6× quicker).
- Better Stack's longest outage on record lasted 2h (Jun 15, 2026); Splunk Observability Cloud's lasted 7h 54m (Apr 25, 2026).
90-day uptime
Better Stack
Splunk Observability Cloud
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Better Stack incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 39m
- Degraded performanceSep 4, 2026 · resolved in 2d 5h
- Degraded performanceSep 3, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceAug 27, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Maintenance: Migrating some Telemetry sources to new infrastructure
- Major outageAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 9m
Recent Splunk Observability Cloud incidents
- InformationalOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 52m
Performance degradation with apm code profiling
Affected: Splunk AlwaysOn Profiling API
- InformationalOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 15h 23m
Degraded AWS CloudWatch Metadata Integration
Affected: Splunk CloudWatch Metric Streams
- Partial outageOct 22, 2026 · resolved in 1h 34m
Splunk APM Trace Data Ingestion Delayed
Affected: Splunk APM Ingest, Splunk APM Trace Data
- Degraded performanceOct 15, 2026 · resolved in 2h 24m
Splunk Observability Cloud Web Interface Degradation
Affected: Splunk Observability Cloud Web Interface
- Partial outageOct 11, 2026 · resolved in 1h 25m
Charts not Loading for Some Customers
Affected: Splunk Observability Cloud Web Interface
- Degraded performanceOct 3, 2026 · resolved in 58m
Splunk Observability Synthetic Metric may be missing
Affected: Splunk Synthetics Monitoring Results processing
Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- Rollbar · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- Checkly · #3 · 99.96% uptime
- New Relic · #4 · 99.92% uptime
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