Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Datadog vs Dynatrace: which is more reliable? (2026)
Datadog and Dynatrace are effectively tied on reliability (82.1 vs 82.6). Over the last 90 days Datadog reported 10 incidents and Dynatrace reported 10, with effective uptime of 99.81% and 100% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Datadog | Dynatrace |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 82.1 | 82.6 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #8 | #7 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.81% | 100% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 10 | 10 |
| Partial / major outages | 2 | 1 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 36m | — |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Datadog and Dynatrace differ
- Datadog had 2 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Dynatrace.
90-day uptime
Datadog
Dynatrace
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Datadog incidents
- Partial outageOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 2h 29m
Metrics query are disruptedofficial update ↗
Affected: APM, Cloud Cost Management, Product Analytics, Cloud Network Monitoring, RUM, Bits AI +2 more
- Major outageOct 26, 2026 · resolved in 57m
Elevated Error Rates for Workflow Automation, App Builder, Bits Code, Bits Agent Builderofficial update ↗
Affected: App Builder, Workflow Automation, Bits AI
- Degraded performanceOct 2, 2026 · resolved in 2h 16m
Affected: RUM
- Degraded performanceSep 30, 2026 · resolved in 48m
Affected: Error Tracking, APM, CI Visibility, Cloud Network Monitoring, RUM
- Degraded performanceSep 25, 2026 · resolved in 27m
Users are unable to acknowledge, escalate, or resolve On-Call Pages
Affected: Incident Response
- Degraded performanceSep 21, 2026 · resolved in 46m
Delayed Monitors Notifications
Affected: Monitors
Recent Dynatrace incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 31, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Logs and Metrics Ingestion possibly delayed in East-US (Virginia)
- Degraded performanceOct 30, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Syslogs Ingested via ActiveGate version 1.347 Presenting Empty Data
- Major outageOct 21, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 16, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Data Processing Issue Affecting Metrics and Events for US East
- Degraded performanceOct 12, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Gen3 apps and queries impacted for environments in US-East-1
Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- Rollbar · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- Checkly · #3 · 99.96% uptime
- New Relic · #4 · 99.92% uptime
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