Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Datadog vs Elastic Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
Datadog is more reliable than Elastic Cloud, scoring 82.1 vs 26.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Datadog reported 10 incidents and Elastic Cloud reported 23, with effective uptime of 99.81% and 91.19% respectively. Datadog resolves incidents faster on average (1h 36m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Datadog | Elastic Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 82.1 | 26.9 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #8 | #16 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.81% | 91.19% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 10 | 23 |
| Partial / major outages | 2 | 22 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 36m | 19h 52m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Datadog and Elastic Cloud differ
- Elastic Cloud reported 2.3× as many incidents as Datadog over the last 90 days (23 vs 10).
- Elastic Cloud had 22 partial or major outages, compared with 2 for Datadog.
- Datadog fixes problems faster: 1h 36m on average, against 19h 52m for Elastic Cloud (12.4× quicker).
- Datadog's longest outage on record lasted 14h 1m (May 8, 2026); Elastic Cloud's lasted 3d (Sep 9, 2026).
90-day uptime
Datadog
Elastic Cloud
- 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 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 projectsofficial update ↗
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 6h 57m
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 15h 3m
Degraded availability for some Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless deployments in GCP europe-west2 (London)official update ↗
- Partial outageOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 8h 12m
Delayed or Unavailable project operation in GCP us-central1official update ↗
Affected: GCP Infrastructure health: us-central1
- Partial outageOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 3h 50m
Delayed Serverless Metrics in Azure UAE North regionofficial update ↗
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
- Checkly · #4 · 99.96% uptime
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