Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Checkly vs incident.io: which is more reliable? (2026)
incident.io is more reliable than Checkly, scoring 95.0 vs 91.1 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Checkly reported 6 incidents and incident.io reported 3, with effective uptime of 99.96% and 99.97% respectively. incident.io resolves incidents faster on average (1h 5m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Checkly | incident.io |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 91.1 | 95.0 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #4 | #2 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.96% | 99.97% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 6 | 3 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 54m | 1h 5m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Checkly and incident.io differ
- Checkly reported 2× as many incidents as incident.io over the last 90 days (6 vs 3).
- incident.io fixes problems faster: 1h 5m on average, against 1h 54m for Checkly.
- Checkly's longest incident on record lasted 3h 10m (Oct 7, 2026); incident.io's lasted 2h 37m (Aug 1, 2026).
90-day uptime
Checkly
incident.io
- 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 incident.io incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 2, 2026 · resolved in 1h 14m
Login errors for subset of Slack Enterprise Grid customers
Affected: Slack app
- Degraded performanceAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 1h 49m
Increased latency in Microsoft Teams
Affected: Microsoft Teams app
- Degraded performanceAug 18, 2026 · resolved in 13m
Issue with listing alerts in the public API and dashboard
Affected: API, Dashboard, Alert ingestion, processing and paging
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