Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Axiom vs Splunk Observability Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
Splunk Observability Cloud is more reliable than Axiom, scoring 77.7 vs 63.5 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Axiom reported 9 incidents and Splunk Observability Cloud reported 13, with effective uptime of 99.50% and 99.74% respectively. Splunk Observability Cloud resolves incidents faster on average (2h 7m).
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Axiom | Splunk Observability Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 63.5 | 77.7 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #13 | #9 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.50% | 99.74% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 9 | 13 |
| Partial / major outages | 4 | 3 |
| Avg time to resolve | 6h 36m | 2h 7m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Axiom and Splunk Observability Cloud differ
- Splunk Observability Cloud reported 44% more incidents than Axiom over the last 90 days (13 vs 9).
- Axiom had 4 partial or major outages, compared with 3 for Splunk Observability Cloud.
- Splunk Observability Cloud fixes problems faster: 2h 7m on average, against 6h 36m for Axiom (3.1× quicker).
- Axiom's longest outage on record lasted 4h 22m (May 15, 2026); Splunk Observability Cloud's lasted 7h 54m (Apr 25, 2026).
90-day uptime
Axiom
Splunk Observability Cloud
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Axiom incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 30, 2026 · resolved in 1h 7m
Affected: Ingest
- Partial outageOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 2h 38m
Elevated errors from queriesofficial update ↗
Affected: Alerting, Querying
- Degraded performanceOct 25, 2026 · resolved in 1h 4m
Queries on Metrics Datasets Suffer from Elevated Error Rates
Affected: Querying
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 33m
Affected: Querying
- Partial outageOct 15, 2026 · resolved in 54m
Metrics query failures in US region
Affected: Querying
- Partial outageOct 15, 2026 · resolved in 12m
Metrics ingestion and query disruption
Affected: Ingest
Recent Splunk Observability Cloud incidents
- InformationalOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 52m
Performance degradation with apm code profiling
Affected: Splunk AlwaysOn Profiling API
- InformationalOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 15h 23m
Degraded AWS CloudWatch Metadata Integration
Affected: Splunk CloudWatch Metric Streams
- Partial outageOct 22, 2026 · resolved in 1h 34m
Splunk APM Trace Data Ingestion Delayed
Affected: Splunk APM Ingest, Splunk APM Trace Data
- Degraded performanceOct 15, 2026 · resolved in 2h 24m
Splunk Observability Cloud Web Interface Degradation
Affected: Splunk Observability Cloud Web Interface
- Partial outageOct 11, 2026 · resolved in 1h 25m
Charts not Loading for Some Customers
Affected: Splunk Observability Cloud Web Interface
- Degraded performanceOct 3, 2026 · resolved in 58m
Splunk Observability Synthetic Metric may be missing
Affected: Splunk Synthetics Monitoring Results processing
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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