Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
PagerDuty vs Rollbar: which is more reliable? (2026)
Rollbar is more reliable than PagerDuty, scoring 96.1 vs 76.8 out of 100. Over the last 90 days PagerDuty reported 12 incidents and Rollbar reported 3, with effective uptime of 99.76% and 99.98% respectively. Rollbar resolves incidents faster on average (37m).
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | PagerDuty | Rollbar |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 76.8 | 96.1 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #10 | #1 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.76% | 99.98% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 12 | 3 |
| Partial / major outages | 11 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 52m | 37m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where PagerDuty and Rollbar differ
- PagerDuty reported 4× as many incidents as Rollbar over the last 90 days (12 vs 3).
- PagerDuty had 11 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Rollbar.
- Rollbar fixes problems faster: 37m on average, against 52m for PagerDuty.
- PagerDuty's longest outage on record lasted 3h 20m (Aug 7, 2026); Rollbar's lasted 12h 9m (May 18, 2026).
90-day uptime
PagerDuty
Rollbar
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent PagerDuty incidents
- Partial outageOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 34m
Issue Resolved - Delays Across the PagerDuty Platform
Affected: Voice (US), SMS (US), Push (US), Email (US), Webhooks (US)
- Partial outageOct 19, 2026 · resolved in 1h 46m
Issue Resolved - Delays Across the PagerDuty Platform
Affected: SMS (US), Voice (US), Push (US), Email (US), Incident Workflows (US), Slack (US) +8 more
- Degraded performanceOct 14, 2026 · resolved in 17m
Issue Resolved - Delayed escalation of incidents and responder request invitations
- Partial outageSep 27, 2026 · resolved in 14m
Event Processing, Notification, and Platform Functionality Issues
Affected: Events API (US), Incident Workflows (US), SMS (US), Voice (US), Email (US), Push (US) +3 more
- Partial outageSep 25, 2026 · resolved in 1h 18m
Issue Identified - Incident Workflows experiencing delays
Affected: Incident Workflows (US), Incident Workflows (EU)
- Partial outageSep 22, 2026 · resolved in 56m
Recent Rollbar incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 13m
Increased occurrence processing pipeline latency
Affected: Core Processing Pipeline, iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, Proguard processing pipeline
- MaintenanceOct 23, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline
- MaintenanceOct 18, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Proguard processing pipeline, Homepage (rollbar.com), Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline +1 more
- MaintenanceOct 14, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com)
- MaintenanceSep 23, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Homepage (rollbar.com) +1 more
- MaintenanceSep 21, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline +1 more
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