Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Checkly vs Splunk Observability Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
Checkly is more reliable than Splunk Observability Cloud, scoring 91.1 vs 77.7 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Checkly reported 6 incidents and Splunk Observability Cloud reported 13, with effective uptime of 99.96% and 99.74% respectively. Checkly resolves incidents faster on average (1h 54m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Checkly | Splunk Observability Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 91.1 | 77.7 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #3 | #9 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.96% | 99.74% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 6 | 13 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 3 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 54m | 2h 7m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Checkly and Splunk Observability Cloud differ
- Splunk Observability Cloud reported 2.2× as many incidents as Checkly over the last 90 days (13 vs 6).
- Splunk Observability Cloud had 3 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Checkly.
- Checkly fixes problems faster: 1h 54m on average, against 2h 7m for Splunk Observability Cloud.
- Checkly's longest incident on record lasted 3h 10m (Oct 7, 2026); Splunk Observability Cloud's lasted 7h 54m (Apr 25, 2026).
90-day uptime
Checkly
Splunk Observability Cloud
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
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)
Security Notice: Unauthorized Access via Third-Party Analytics Tool
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
- New Relic · #4 · 99.92% uptime
- UptimeRobot · #5 · 99.93% uptime
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