Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Checkly vs Rollbar: which is more reliable? (2026)
Rollbar is more reliable than Checkly, scoring 96.1 vs 91.1 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Checkly reported 6 incidents and Rollbar reported 3, with effective uptime of 99.96% and 99.98% respectively. Rollbar resolves incidents faster on average (37m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Checkly | Rollbar |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 91.1 | 96.1 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #4 | #1 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.96% | 99.98% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 6 | 3 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 54m | 37m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Checkly and Rollbar differ
- Checkly reported 2× as many incidents as Rollbar over the last 90 days (6 vs 3).
- Rollbar fixes problems faster: 37m on average, against 1h 54m for Checkly (3.1× quicker).
- Checkly's longest incident on record lasted 3h 10m (Oct 7, 2026); Rollbar's lasted 12h 9m (May 18, 2026).
90-day uptime
Checkly
Rollbar
- 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 Rollbar incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 13m
Increased occurrence processing pipeline latency
Affected: Core Processing Pipeline, iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, Proguard processing pipeline
- MaintenanceOct 23, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com)
- MaintenanceOct 18, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Homepage (rollbar.com), Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com) +1 more
- MaintenanceOct 14, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline
- MaintenanceSep 23, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline +1 more
- MaintenanceSep 21, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Proguard processing pipeline, Homepage (rollbar.com), Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline +1 more
Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- New Relic · #3 · 99.93% uptime
- UptimeRobot · #5 · 99.93% uptime
- Honeycomb · #6 · 99.86% uptime
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