Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
PagerDuty vs Sentry: which is more reliable? (2026)
PagerDuty is more reliable than Sentry, scoring 76.8 vs 54.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days PagerDuty reported 12 incidents and Sentry reported 23, with effective uptime of 99.76% and 98.93% respectively. PagerDuty resolves incidents faster on average (52m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | PagerDuty | Sentry |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 76.8 | 54.9 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #10 | #14 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.76% | 98.93% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 12 | 23 |
| Partial / major outages | 11 | 15 |
| Avg time to resolve | 52m | 2h 21m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where PagerDuty and Sentry differ
- Sentry reported 92% more incidents than PagerDuty over the last 90 days (23 vs 12).
- Sentry had 15 partial or major outages, compared with 11 for PagerDuty.
- PagerDuty fixes problems faster: 52m on average, against 2h 21m for Sentry (2.7× quicker).
- PagerDuty's longest outage on record lasted 3h 20m (Aug 7, 2026); Sentry's lasted 6h 18m (Aug 27, 2026).
90-day uptime
PagerDuty
Sentry
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent PagerDuty incidents
- Partial outageOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 34m
Issue Resolved - Delays Across the PagerDuty Platform
Affected: Voice (US), SMS (US), Push (US), Email (US), Webhooks (US)
- Partial outageOct 19, 2026 · resolved in 1h 46m
Issue Resolved - Delays Across the PagerDuty Platform
Affected: SMS (US), Voice (US), Push (US), Email (US), Incident Workflows (US), Slack (US) +8 more
- Degraded performanceOct 14, 2026 · resolved in 17m
Issue Resolved - Delayed escalation of incidents and responder request invitations
- Partial outageSep 27, 2026 · resolved in 14m
Event Processing, Notification, and Platform Functionality Issues
Affected: Events API (US), Incident Workflows (US), SMS (US), Voice (US), Email (US), Push (US) +3 more
- Partial outageSep 25, 2026 · resolved in 1h 18m
Issue Identified - Incident Workflows experiencing delays
Affected: Incident Workflows (US), Incident Workflows (EU)
- Partial outageSep 22, 2026 · resolved in 56m
Recent Sentry incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 21m
Increased latency processing integration webhooks
Affected: Slack, Integration Pipeline
- Major outageOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 1h
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 3h 18m
- Major outageOct 19, 2026 · resolved in 53m
- Partial outageOct 14, 2026 · resolved in 2h 34m
- Major outageOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 42m
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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