Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
PagerDuty vs UptimeRobot: which is more reliable? (2026)
UptimeRobot is more reliable than PagerDuty, scoring 87.7 vs 76.8 out of 100. Over the last 90 days PagerDuty reported 12 incidents and UptimeRobot reported 7, with effective uptime of 99.76% and 99.93% respectively. UptimeRobot resolves incidents faster on average (25m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | PagerDuty | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 76.8 | 87.7 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #10 | #5 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.76% | 99.93% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 12 | 7 |
| Partial / major outages | 11 | 7 |
| Avg time to resolve | 52m | 25m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where PagerDuty and UptimeRobot differ
- PagerDuty reported 71% more incidents than UptimeRobot over the last 90 days (12 vs 7).
- PagerDuty had 11 partial or major outages, compared with 7 for UptimeRobot.
- UptimeRobot fixes problems faster: 25m on average, against 52m for PagerDuty (2.1× quicker).
- PagerDuty's longest outage on record lasted 3h 20m (Aug 7, 2026); UptimeRobot's lasted 2h 41m (Aug 4, 2026).
90-day uptime
PagerDuty
UptimeRobot
- 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 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
- Checkly · #3 · 99.96% uptime
- New Relic · #4 · 99.91% uptime
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