Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Datadog vs Honeycomb: which is more reliable? (2026)
Honeycomb is more reliable than Datadog, scoring 85.4 vs 82.1 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Datadog reported 10 incidents and Honeycomb reported 5, with effective uptime of 99.81% and 99.86% respectively. Datadog resolves incidents faster on average (1h 36m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Datadog | Honeycomb |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 82.1 | 85.4 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #8 | #6 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.81% | 99.86% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 10 | 5 |
| Partial / major outages | 2 | 3 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 36m | 2h 19m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Datadog and Honeycomb differ
- Datadog reported 2× as many incidents as Honeycomb over the last 90 days (10 vs 5).
- Honeycomb had 3 partial or major outages, compared with 2 for Datadog.
- Datadog fixes problems faster: 1h 36m on average, against 2h 19m for Honeycomb.
- Datadog's longest outage on record lasted 14h 1m (May 8, 2026); Honeycomb's lasted 3d (Dec 5, 2025).
90-day uptime
Datadog
Honeycomb
- 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 Honeycomb incidents
- Partial outageOct 22, 2026 · resolved in 1h 1m
Email notifications for SLOs, Triggers, and Anomaly Detection not sending
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Trigger & SLO Alerting, ui.eu1.honeycomb.io - EU1 Trigger & SLO Alerting
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in <1m
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 2h 21m
Slowness in US regionofficial update ↗
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Querying, ui.honeycomb.io - US1 App Interface, ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Trigger & SLO Alerting
- Degraded performanceAug 21, 2026 · resolved in 38m
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 App Interface, ui.eu1.honeycomb.io - EU1 App Interface
- Degraded performanceAug 10, 2026 · resolved in 7h 34m
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Querying
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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