Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Checkly vs Grafana Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
Checkly is more reliable than Grafana Cloud, scoring 91.1 vs 33.1 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Checkly reported 6 incidents and Grafana Cloud reported 64, with effective uptime of 99.96% and 96.80% respectively. Checkly resolves incidents faster on average (1h 54m).
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Checkly | Grafana Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 91.1 | 33.1 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #3 | #15 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.96% | 96.80% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 6 | 64 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 16 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 54m | 5h 59m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Checkly and Grafana Cloud differ
- Grafana Cloud reported 10.7× as many incidents as Checkly over the last 90 days (64 vs 6).
- Grafana Cloud had 16 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Checkly.
- Checkly fixes problems faster: 1h 54m on average, against 5h 59m for Grafana Cloud (3.1× quicker).
- Checkly's longest incident on record lasted 3h 10m (Oct 7, 2026); Grafana Cloud's lasted 3d (Jun 18, 2026).
90-day uptime
Checkly
Grafana 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 Grafana Cloud incidents
- Degraded performanceNov 2, 2026 · resolved in 1h 48m
Metrics Alert Rule Evaluation Failures in AWS Australia (prod-au-southeast-1)
Affected: AWS Australia - prod-au-southeast-1: Rule Evaluation
- Partial outageNov 2, 2026 · ongoing
IRM Unable to Voice Call Brazil Numbersofficial update ↗
Affected: Incident Management and Response (IRM)
- 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
Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- Rollbar · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- New Relic · #4 · 99.92% uptime
- UptimeRobot · #5 · 99.93% uptime
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