Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
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
| Metric | Grafana Cloud | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 33.2 | 87.7 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #15 | #5 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 97.05% | 99.93% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 63 | 7 |
| Partial / major outages | 15 | 7 |
| Avg time to resolve | 6h 1m | 25m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
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
UptimeRobot
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Grafana Cloud incidents
- 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
- MaintenanceOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 3h
[Scheduled] Scheduled Database Maintenance – Temporary Grafana Instance Unavailability
Recent UptimeRobot incidents
- Partial outageOct 26, 2026 · resolved in 1m
Affected: API v2
- Partial outageOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 10m
Affected: API v2
- Partial outageSep 3, 2026 · resolved in <1m
Affected: API v2, RSS
- Partial outageSep 2, 2026 · resolved in 1m
Affected: API v2, RSS
- Partial outageSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 1m
Affected: API v2
- Partial outageAug 29, 2026 · resolved in 2m
Affected: API v2
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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