Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Checkly vs Elastic Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
Checkly is more reliable than Elastic Cloud, scoring 91.1 vs 26.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Checkly reported 6 incidents and Elastic Cloud reported 23, with effective uptime of 99.96% and 91.19% respectively. Checkly resolves incidents faster on average (1h 54m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Checkly | Elastic Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 91.1 | 26.9 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #4 | #15 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.96% | 91.19% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 6 | 23 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 22 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 54m | 19h 52m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Checkly and Elastic Cloud differ
- Elastic Cloud reported 3.8× as many incidents as Checkly over the last 90 days (23 vs 6).
- Elastic Cloud had 22 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Checkly.
- Checkly fixes problems faster: 1h 54m on average, against 19h 52m for Elastic Cloud (10.4× quicker).
- Checkly's longest incident on record lasted 3h 10m (Oct 7, 2026); Elastic Cloud's lasted 3d (Sep 9, 2026).
90-day uptime
Checkly
Elastic Cloud
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Checkly incidents
- Degraded performanceNov 1, 2026 · resolved in 1h 40m
- Degraded performanceOct 7, 2026 · resolved in 3h 10m
- Degraded performanceOct 5, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceSep 23, 2026 · resolved in 53m
Performance Degradation for Playwright Check Suites in us-east-1
- Degraded performanceSep 18, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceAug 10, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Security Notice: Unauthorized Access via Third-Party Analytics Tool
Recent Elastic Cloud incidents
- Partial outageOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 2h 29m
- Partial outageOct 22, 2026 · resolved in 9h 31m
403 error when trying to access Autoops in newly created serverless projects
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 6h 57m
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 15h 3m
- Partial outageOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 8h 12m
Delayed or Unavailable project operation in GCP us-central1
Affected: GCP Infrastructure health: us-central1
- Partial outageOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 3h 50m
Delayed Serverless Metrics in Azure UAE North region
Affected: Azure Infrastructure Health
Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- Rollbar · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- New Relic · #3 · 99.93% uptime
- UptimeRobot · #5 · 99.93% uptime
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