Datadog outage on May 16, 2026

What happened

Datadog reported a major outage starting May 16, 2026, 02:17 UTC, affecting Metrics and Infra Monitoring. It was marked resolved at May 16, 2026, 03:43 UTC.

• The incident lasted 1h 26m from first report to resolution.
• Datadog had reported 8 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
• 4 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Datadog

This incident has been resolved and Azure metrics are reporting as expected.

Read Datadog's official incident report ↗

What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of Datadog started after this incident, so this report is based on Datadog's status page.

Other outages around the same time

Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.

• Partial outageAxiomMay 15, 2026, 17:05 UTC

  Increased Ingest and Query Error Rates

• Partial outageTockMay 15, 2026, 18:17 UTC

  Investigating a potential service disruption

• Partial outageImpervaMay 15, 2026, 19:22 UTC

  [INC-1040] Imperva Management Portal Login Issue

• Partial outageSumsubMay 16, 2026, 07:30 UTC

  DDos attack

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