Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Better Stack vs Grafana Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
Better Stack is more reliable than Grafana Cloud, scoring 64.7 vs 33.2 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Better Stack reported 5 incidents and Grafana Cloud reported 63, with effective uptime of 99.61% and 97.05% respectively. Grafana Cloud resolves incidents faster on average (6h 1m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Better Stack | Grafana Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 64.7 | 33.2 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #11 | #14 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.61% | 97.05% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 63 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 15 |
| Avg time to resolve | 18h 4m | 6h 1m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Better Stack and Grafana Cloud differ
- Grafana Cloud reported 12.6× as many incidents as Better Stack over the last 90 days (63 vs 5).
- Grafana Cloud had 15 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Better Stack.
- Grafana Cloud fixes problems faster: 6h 1m on average, against 18h 4m for Better Stack (3.0× quicker).
- Better Stack's longest outage on record lasted 2h (Jun 15, 2026); Grafana Cloud's lasted 3d (Jun 18, 2026).
90-day uptime
Better Stack
Grafana Cloud
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Better Stack incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 39m
- Degraded performanceSep 4, 2026 · resolved in 2d 5h
- Degraded performanceSep 3, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceAug 27, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Maintenance: Migrating some Telemetry sources to new infrastructure
- Major outageAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 9m
Recent Grafana Cloud incidents
- 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
- MaintenanceOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 3h
[Scheduled] Scheduled Database Maintenance – Temporary Grafana Instance Unavailability
Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- Rollbar · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- New Relic · #3 · 99.93% uptime
- Checkly · #4 · 99.96% uptime
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