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Grafana Cloud vs UptimeRobot: which is more reliable? (2026)

UptimeRobot is more reliable than Grafana Cloud, scoring 87.7 vs 33.2 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Grafana Cloud reported 63 incidents and UptimeRobot reported 7, with effective uptime of 97.05% and 99.93% respectively. UptimeRobot resolves incidents faster on average (25m).

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score

MetricGrafana CloudUptimeRobot
Reliability score33.287.7
Rank (monitoring & observability tools)#15#5
Uptime (90 days)97.05%99.93%
Incidents (90 days)637
Partial / major outages157
Avg time to resolve6h 1m25m
Outages we detected00
Transparency score100/100100/100

Where Grafana Cloud and UptimeRobot differ

  • Grafana Cloud reported 9× as many incidents as UptimeRobot over the last 90 days (63 vs 7).
  • Grafana Cloud had 15 partial or major outages, compared with 7 for UptimeRobot.
  • UptimeRobot fixes problems faster: 25m on average, against 6h 1m for Grafana Cloud (14.3× quicker).
  • Grafana Cloud's longest outage on record lasted 3d (Jun 18, 2026); UptimeRobot's lasted 2h 41m (Aug 4, 2026).

90-day uptime

Grafana Cloud

Aug 4, 2026: 77.89% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage)Aug 5, 2026: 93.57% uptime, 3 incidents (Major outage)Aug 6, 2026 – Aug 7, 2026: no incidentsAug 8, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 9, 2026: no incidentsAug 10, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 11, 2026 – Aug 12, 2026: no incidentsAug 13, 2026: 94.30% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 14, 2026 – Aug 17, 2026: no incidentsAug 18, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 19, 2026 – Aug 24, 2026: no incidentsAug 25, 2026: 99.76% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 26, 2026: no incidentsAug 27, 2026: 99.40% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 28, 2026: 95.81% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Aug 29, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026: no incidentsSep 1, 2026: 96.93% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 2, 2026: no incidentsSep 3, 2026: 92.04% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 4, 2026: 88.35% uptime, 4 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 5, 2026 – Sep 7, 2026: no incidentsSep 8, 2026: 95.96% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 9, 2026: 98.49% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 10, 2026 – Sep 11, 2026: no incidentsSep 12, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 13, 2026 – Sep 14, 2026: no incidentsSep 15, 2026: 99.19% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 16, 2026: no incidentsSep 17, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 18, 2026 – Sep 21, 2026: no incidentsSep 22, 2026: 81.15% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 23, 2026: 74.96% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 24, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026: no incidentsSep 26, 2026: 99.49% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 27, 2026: no incidentsSep 28, 2026: 92.41% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage)Sep 29, 2026: no incidentsSep 30, 2026: 98.13% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 1, 2026: no incidentsOct 2, 2026: 97.49% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 3, 2026: no incidentsOct 4, 2026: 99.85% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 5, 2026: 95.18% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 6, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 7, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 8, 2026: 89.81% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 9, 2026 – Oct 11, 2026: no incidentsOct 12, 2026: 85.52% uptime, 3 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 13, 2026: 90.87% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 14, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 15, 2026: 76.66% uptime, 3 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 16, 2026: 92.31% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 17, 2026: 98.79% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 18, 2026: no incidentsOct 19, 2026: 94.11% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 20, 2026: 95.39% uptime, 4 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 21, 2026: 94.58% uptime, 4 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 22, 2026: no incidentsOct 23, 2026: 95.50% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 24, 2026 – Oct 26, 2026: no incidentsOct 27, 2026: 95.41% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage)Oct 28, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago97.049% average daily uptimeToday

UptimeRobot

Aug 4, 2026: 94.41% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 5, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026: no incidentsAug 29, 2026: 99.93% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 30, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026: no incidentsSep 1, 2026: 99.96% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 2, 2026: 99.96% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 3, 2026: 99.98% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 4, 2026 – Oct 5, 2026: no incidentsOct 6, 2026: 99.65% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 7, 2026 – Oct 25, 2026: no incidentsOct 26, 2026: 99.96% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 27, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.931% average daily uptimeToday

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