Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
incident.io vs UptimeRobot: which is more reliable? (2026)
incident.io is more reliable than UptimeRobot, scoring 95.0 vs 87.7 out of 100. Over the last 90 days incident.io reported 3 incidents and UptimeRobot reported 7, with effective uptime of 99.97% and 99.93% respectively. UptimeRobot resolves incidents faster on average (25m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | incident.io | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 95.0 | 87.7 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #2 | #5 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.97% | 99.93% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 3 | 7 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 7 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 5m | 25m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where incident.io and UptimeRobot differ
- UptimeRobot reported 2.3× as many incidents as incident.io over the last 90 days (7 vs 3).
- UptimeRobot had 7 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for incident.io.
- UptimeRobot fixes problems faster: 25m on average, against 1h 5m for incident.io (2.6× quicker).
- incident.io's longest outage on record lasted 2h 37m (Aug 1, 2026); UptimeRobot's lasted 2h 41m (Aug 4, 2026).
90-day uptime
incident.io
UptimeRobot
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent incident.io incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 2, 2026 · resolved in 1h 14m
Login errors for subset of Slack Enterprise Grid customers
Affected: Slack app
- Degraded performanceAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 1h 49m
Increased latency in Microsoft Teams
Affected: Microsoft Teams app
- Degraded performanceAug 18, 2026 · resolved in 13m
Issue with listing alerts in the public API and dashboard
Affected: API, Dashboard, Alert ingestion, processing and paging
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
- New Relic · #3 · 99.93% uptime
- Checkly · #4 · 99.96% uptime
- Honeycomb · #6 · 99.86% uptime
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