Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Dynatrace vs Honeycomb: which is more reliable? (2026)
Honeycomb is more reliable than Dynatrace, scoring 85.4 vs 82.6 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Dynatrace reported 10 incidents and Honeycomb reported 5, with effective uptime of 100% and 99.86% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Dynatrace | Honeycomb |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 82.6 | 85.4 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #7 | #6 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 100% | 99.86% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 10 | 5 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 3 |
| Avg time to resolve | — | 2h 19m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Dynatrace and Honeycomb differ
- Dynatrace reported 2× as many incidents as Honeycomb over the last 90 days (10 vs 5).
- Honeycomb had 3 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Dynatrace.
90-day uptime
Dynatrace
Honeycomb
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Dynatrace incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 31, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Logs and Metrics Ingestion possibly delayed in East-US (Virginia)
- Degraded performanceOct 30, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Syslogs Ingested via ActiveGate version 1.347 Presenting Empty Data
- Major outageOct 21, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 16, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Data Processing Issue Affecting Metrics and Events for US East
- Degraded performanceOct 12, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Gen3 apps and queries impacted for environments in US-East-1
Recent Honeycomb incidents
- Partial outageOct 22, 2026 · resolved in 1h 1m
Email notifications for SLOs, Triggers, and Anomaly Detection not sending
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Trigger & SLO Alerting, ui.eu1.honeycomb.io - EU1 Trigger & SLO Alerting
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in <1m
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 2h 21m
Slowness in US regionofficial update ↗
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Querying, ui.honeycomb.io - US1 App Interface, ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Trigger & SLO Alerting
- Degraded performanceAug 21, 2026 · resolved in 38m
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 App Interface, ui.eu1.honeycomb.io - EU1 App Interface
- Degraded performanceAug 10, 2026 · resolved in 7h 34m
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Querying
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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