Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Elastic Cloud vs Splunk Observability Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
Splunk Observability Cloud is more reliable than Elastic Cloud, scoring 77.7 vs 26.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Elastic Cloud reported 23 incidents and Splunk Observability Cloud reported 13, with effective uptime of 91.19% and 99.74% respectively. Splunk Observability Cloud resolves incidents faster on average (2h 7m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Elastic Cloud | Splunk Observability Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 26.9 | 77.7 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #16 | #9 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 91.19% | 99.74% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 23 | 13 |
| Partial / major outages | 22 | 3 |
| Avg time to resolve | 19h 52m | 2h 7m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Elastic Cloud and Splunk Observability Cloud differ
- Elastic Cloud reported 77% more incidents than Splunk Observability Cloud over the last 90 days (23 vs 13).
- Elastic Cloud had 22 partial or major outages, compared with 3 for Splunk Observability Cloud.
- Splunk Observability Cloud fixes problems faster: 2h 7m on average, against 19h 52m for Elastic Cloud (9.4× quicker).
- Elastic Cloud's longest outage on record lasted 3d (Sep 9, 2026); Splunk Observability Cloud's lasted 7h 54m (Apr 25, 2026).
90-day uptime
Elastic Cloud
Splunk Observability Cloud
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
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
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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