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Elastic Cloud vs Grafana Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)

Grafana Cloud is more reliable than Elastic Cloud, scoring 33.1 vs 26.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Elastic Cloud reported 23 incidents and Grafana Cloud reported 64, with effective uptime of 91.19% and 96.79% respectively. Grafana Cloud resolves incidents faster on average (5h 59m).

Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score

MetricElastic CloudGrafana Cloud
Reliability score26.933.1
Rank (monitoring & observability tools)#16#15
Uptime (90 days)91.19%96.79%
Incidents (90 days)2364
Partial / major outages2216
Avg time to resolve19h 52m5h 59m
Outages we detected00
Transparency score100/100100/100

Where Elastic Cloud and Grafana Cloud differ

  • Grafana Cloud reported 2.8× as many incidents as Elastic Cloud over the last 90 days (64 vs 23).
  • Elastic Cloud had 22 partial or major outages, compared with 16 for Grafana Cloud.
  • Grafana Cloud fixes problems faster: 5h 59m on average, against 19h 52m for Elastic Cloud (3.3× quicker).
  • Elastic Cloud's longest outage on record lasted 3d (Sep 9, 2026); Grafana Cloud's lasted 3d (Jun 18, 2026).

90-day uptime

Elastic Cloud

Aug 5, 2026: 97.89% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 6, 2026: 50.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Aug 7, 2026: 50.00% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 8, 2026: 52.10% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 9, 2026 – Aug 12, 2026: no incidentsAug 13, 2026: 58.26% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Aug 14, 2026: 50.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Aug 15, 2026: 50.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Aug 16, 2026: 50.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Aug 17, 2026: 80.48% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 18, 2026 – Aug 19, 2026: no incidentsAug 20, 2026: 91.39% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Aug 21, 2026 – Aug 26, 2026: no incidentsAug 27, 2026: 97.13% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 28, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026: no incidentsSep 1, 2026: 67.22% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 2, 2026: 50.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 3, 2026: 50.00% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 4, 2026: 82.77% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 5, 2026 – Sep 8, 2026: no incidentsSep 9, 2026: 93.21% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 10, 2026: 50.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 11, 2026: 50.00% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 12, 2026: 55.45% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 13, 2026: 83.82% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 14, 2026 – Sep 15, 2026: no incidentsSep 16, 2026: 95.09% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 17, 2026: 98.57% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 18, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026: no incidentsSep 23, 2026: 95.87% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 24, 2026 – Oct 5, 2026: no incidentsOct 6, 2026: 92.01% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 7, 2026: no incidentsOct 8, 2026: 84.82% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 9, 2026: 98.11% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 10, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026: no incidentsOct 20, 2026: 64.27% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 21, 2026: 93.57% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 22, 2026: 80.18% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 23, 2026: 94.82% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 24, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago91.190% average daily uptimeToday

Grafana Cloud

Aug 5, 2026: 93.57% uptime, 3 incidents (Major outage)Aug 6, 2026 – Aug 7, 2026: no incidentsAug 8, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 9, 2026: no incidentsAug 10, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 11, 2026 – Aug 12, 2026: no incidentsAug 13, 2026: 94.30% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 14, 2026 – Aug 17, 2026: no incidentsAug 18, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 19, 2026 – Aug 24, 2026: no incidentsAug 25, 2026: 99.76% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 26, 2026: no incidentsAug 27, 2026: 99.40% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 28, 2026: 95.81% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Aug 29, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026: no incidentsSep 1, 2026: 96.92% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 2, 2026: no incidentsSep 3, 2026: 92.04% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 4, 2026: 88.35% uptime, 4 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 5, 2026 – Sep 7, 2026: no incidentsSep 8, 2026: 95.96% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 9, 2026: 98.49% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 10, 2026 – Sep 11, 2026: no incidentsSep 12, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 13, 2026 – Sep 14, 2026: no incidentsSep 15, 2026: 99.19% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 16, 2026: no incidentsSep 17, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 18, 2026 – Sep 21, 2026: no incidentsSep 22, 2026: 81.15% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 23, 2026: 74.96% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 24, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026: no incidentsSep 26, 2026: 99.49% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 27, 2026: no incidentsSep 28, 2026: 92.41% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage)Sep 29, 2026: no incidentsSep 30, 2026: 98.13% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 1, 2026: no incidentsOct 2, 2026: 97.49% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 3, 2026: no incidentsOct 4, 2026: 99.85% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 5, 2026: 95.18% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 6, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 7, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 8, 2026: 89.81% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 9, 2026 – Oct 11, 2026: no incidentsOct 12, 2026: 85.52% uptime, 3 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 13, 2026: 90.87% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 14, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 15, 2026: 76.66% uptime, 3 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 16, 2026: 92.31% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 17, 2026: 98.79% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 18, 2026: no incidentsOct 19, 2026: 94.11% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 20, 2026: 95.39% uptime, 4 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 21, 2026: 94.58% uptime, 4 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 22, 2026: no incidentsOct 23, 2026: 95.50% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 24, 2026 – Oct 26, 2026: no incidentsOct 27, 2026: 95.41% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage)Oct 28, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidentsNov 2, 2026: 52.47% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)
90 days ago96.767% average daily uptimeToday

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