Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Grafana Cloud vs Rollbar: which is more reliable? (2026)
Rollbar is more reliable than Grafana Cloud, scoring 96.1 vs 33.1 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Grafana Cloud reported 64 incidents and Rollbar reported 3, with effective uptime of 96.88% and 99.98% respectively. Rollbar resolves incidents faster on average (37m).
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Grafana Cloud | Rollbar |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 33.1 | 96.1 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #15 | #1 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 96.88% | 99.98% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 64 | 3 |
| Partial / major outages | 16 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 6h 1m | 37m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Grafana Cloud and Rollbar differ
- Grafana Cloud reported 21.3× as many incidents as Rollbar over the last 90 days (64 vs 3).
- Grafana Cloud had 16 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Rollbar.
- Rollbar fixes problems faster: 37m on average, against 6h 1m for Grafana Cloud (9.7× quicker).
- Grafana Cloud's longest outage on record lasted 3d (Jun 18, 2026); Rollbar's lasted 12h 9m (May 18, 2026).
90-day uptime
Grafana Cloud
Rollbar
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Grafana Cloud incidents
- Partial outageNov 2, 2026 · ongoing
IRM Unable to Voice Call Brazil Numbersofficial update ↗
Affected: Incident Management and Response (IRM)
- MaintenanceOct 30, 2026 · resolved in 3h
[Scheduled] Scheduled Database Maintenance – Temporary Grafana Instance Unavailability
- MaintenanceOct 29, 2026 · resolved in 3h
[Scheduled] Scheduled Database Maintenance – Temporary Grafana Instance Unavailability
- MaintenanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 3h
[Scheduled] Scheduled Database Maintenance – Temporary Grafana Instance Unavailability
- Major outageOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 28m
Frontend Observability Outage in prod-eu-west-2
Affected: AWS Germany - prod-eu-west-2
- Degraded performanceOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 4h 42m
Affected: Integrations
Recent Rollbar incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 13m
Increased occurrence processing pipeline latency
Affected: Proguard processing pipeline, Core Processing Pipeline, iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline
- MaintenanceOct 23, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Proguard processing pipeline, Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com)
- MaintenanceOct 18, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Homepage (rollbar.com), Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com) +1 more
- MaintenanceOct 14, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Proguard processing pipeline, Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com)
- MaintenanceSep 23, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Homepage (rollbar.com), Core Processing Pipeline +1 more
- MaintenanceSep 21, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Homepage (rollbar.com) +1 more
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