Monitoring & Observability · monthly outage report

Monitoring & Observability outages: April 2026

The 16 monitoring & observability tools we track reported 26 incidents in April 2026. Honeycomb reported the most (8). 8 had a clean month: Better Stack, BugSnag, Checkly, Dynatrace, Grafana Cloud, PagerDuty, Sentry, UptimeRobot.

Vendor	Incidents	Partial / major	Outage time	Longest
Honeycomb	8	3	3h 49m	1d 7h
Axiom	3	1	4h 9m	14h 11m
Datadog	3	2	6h 29m	6h 6m
Elastic Cloud	3	3	5h 36m	3h 54m
Splunk Observability Cloud	3	2	10h 4m	11h 42m
New Relic	2	0	—	10h 55m
Rollbar	2	0	—	7h 50m
incident.io	2	0	—	22m
Better Stack	0	0	—	—
BugSnag	0	0	—	—
Checkly	0	0	—	—
Dynatrace	0	0	—	—
Grafana Cloud	0	0	—	—
PagerDuty	0	0	—	—
Sentry	0	0	—	—
UptimeRobot	0	0	—	—

Longest Monitoring & Observability outages in April 2026

Partial outageSplunk Observability CloudApr 25, 2026 · 7h 54m
RUM MMS Data Drop — Missing Chart & Dashboard Data
Partial outageDatadogApr 10, 2026 · 6h 6m
Notifications to Pagerduty, VictorOps, Slack, Webhook, Microsoft Teams and OpsGenie are not delivered
Partial outageAxiomApr 12, 2026 · 4h 9m
Degraded Query performance on EU Edge Deployment
Partial outageElastic CloudApr 28, 2026 · 3h 54m
Missing Metrics in Cloud Console — US East (us-east-1)
Partial outageHoneycombApr 10, 2026 · 3h 42m
Ingest issues for some customers
Major outageSplunk Observability CloudApr 25, 2026 · 2h 10m
RUM MMS Data Drop — Missing Chart & Dashboard Data
Partial outageElastic CloudApr 27, 2026 · 51m
Elevated Error Rates and Latency — EU West Region
Partial outageElastic CloudApr 30, 2026 · 51m
Delayed AutoOps Metrics in AWS us-east-1
Partial outageDatadogApr 24, 2026 · 23m
Delays in AWS and Azure cloud integration metrics ingestion
Partial outageHoneycombApr 20, 2026 · 7m
Activity Log events interrupted for EU

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