Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Honeycomb vs UptimeRobot: which is more reliable? (2026)
UptimeRobot is more reliable than Honeycomb, scoring 87.7 vs 85.4 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Honeycomb reported 5 incidents and UptimeRobot reported 7, with effective uptime of 99.86% and 99.93% respectively. UptimeRobot resolves incidents faster on average (25m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Honeycomb | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 85.4 | 87.7 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #6 | #5 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.86% | 99.93% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 7 |
| Partial / major outages | 3 | 7 |
| Avg time to resolve | 2h 19m | 25m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Honeycomb and UptimeRobot differ
- UptimeRobot reported 40% more incidents than Honeycomb over the last 90 days (7 vs 5).
- UptimeRobot had 7 partial or major outages, compared with 3 for Honeycomb.
- UptimeRobot fixes problems faster: 25m on average, against 2h 19m for Honeycomb (5.5× quicker).
- Honeycomb's longest outage on record lasted 3d (Dec 5, 2025); UptimeRobot's lasted 2h 41m (Aug 4, 2026).
90-day uptime
Honeycomb
UptimeRobot
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Honeycomb incidents
- Partial outageOct 22, 2026 · resolved in 1h 1m
Email notifications for SLOs, Triggers, and Anomaly Detection not sending
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Trigger & SLO Alerting, ui.eu1.honeycomb.io - EU1 Trigger & SLO Alerting
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in <1m
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 2h 21m
Slowness in US regionofficial update ↗
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Querying, ui.honeycomb.io - US1 App Interface, ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Trigger & SLO Alerting
- Degraded performanceAug 21, 2026 · resolved in 38m
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 App Interface, ui.eu1.honeycomb.io - EU1 App Interface
- Degraded performanceAug 10, 2026 · resolved in 7h 34m
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Querying
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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