Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Grafana Cloud vs Splunk Observability Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
Splunk Observability Cloud is more reliable than Grafana Cloud, scoring 77.7 vs 33.1 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Grafana Cloud reported 64 incidents and Splunk Observability Cloud reported 13, with effective uptime of 97.00% and 99.74% respectively. Splunk Observability Cloud resolves incidents faster on average (2h 7m).
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Grafana Cloud | Splunk Observability Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 33.1 | 77.7 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #15 | #9 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 97.00% | 99.74% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 64 | 13 |
| Partial / major outages | 16 | 3 |
| Avg time to resolve | 6h 1m | 2h 7m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Grafana Cloud and Splunk Observability Cloud differ
- Grafana Cloud reported 4.9× as many incidents as Splunk Observability Cloud over the last 90 days (64 vs 13).
- Grafana Cloud had 16 partial or major outages, compared with 3 for Splunk Observability Cloud.
- Splunk Observability Cloud fixes problems faster: 2h 7m on average, against 6h 1m for Grafana Cloud (2.8× quicker).
- Grafana Cloud's longest outage on record lasted 3d (Jun 18, 2026); Splunk Observability Cloud's lasted 7h 54m (Apr 25, 2026).
90-day uptime
Grafana Cloud
Splunk Observability Cloud
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Grafana Cloud incidents
- Partial outageNov 2, 2026 · ongoing
IRM Unable to Voice Call Brazil Numbersofficial update ↗
Affected: Incident Management and Response (IRM)
- MaintenanceOct 30, 2026 · resolved in 3h
[Scheduled] Scheduled Database Maintenance – Temporary Grafana Instance Unavailability
- MaintenanceOct 29, 2026 · resolved in 3h
[Scheduled] Scheduled Database Maintenance – Temporary Grafana Instance Unavailability
- MaintenanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 3h
[Scheduled] Scheduled Database Maintenance – Temporary Grafana Instance Unavailability
- Major outageOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 28m
Frontend Observability Outage in prod-eu-west-2
Affected: AWS Germany - prod-eu-west-2
- Degraded performanceOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 4h 42m
Affected: Integrations
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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