Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Dynatrace vs Splunk Observability Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
Dynatrace is more reliable than Splunk Observability Cloud, scoring 82.6 vs 77.7 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Dynatrace reported 10 incidents and Splunk Observability Cloud reported 13, with effective uptime of 100% and 99.74% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Dynatrace | Splunk Observability Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 82.6 | 77.7 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #7 | #9 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 100% | 99.74% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 10 | 13 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 3 |
| Avg time to resolve | — | 2h 7m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Dynatrace and Splunk Observability Cloud differ
- Splunk Observability Cloud reported 30% more incidents than Dynatrace over the last 90 days (13 vs 10).
- Splunk Observability Cloud had 3 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Dynatrace.
90-day uptime
Dynatrace
Splunk Observability Cloud
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
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
Recent Splunk Observability Cloud incidents
- InformationalOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 52m
Performance degradation with apm code profiling
Affected: Splunk AlwaysOn Profiling API
- InformationalOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 15h 23m
Degraded AWS CloudWatch Metadata Integration
Affected: Splunk CloudWatch Metric Streams
- Partial outageOct 22, 2026 · resolved in 1h 34m
Splunk APM Trace Data Ingestion Delayed
Affected: Splunk APM Ingest, Splunk APM Trace Data
- Degraded performanceOct 15, 2026 · resolved in 2h 24m
Splunk Observability Cloud Web Interface Degradation
Affected: Splunk Observability Cloud Web Interface
- Partial outageOct 11, 2026 · resolved in 1h 25m
Charts not Loading for Some Customers
Affected: Splunk Observability Cloud Web Interface
- Degraded performanceOct 3, 2026 · resolved in 58m
Splunk Observability Synthetic Metric may be missing
Affected: Splunk Synthetics Monitoring Results processing
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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