Datadog outage history and postmortems

Data and observability · New York, US · 14 incidents in 90 days · 99.97% implied uptime · last 3d ago

Incidents

56 on file

Started	Incident	Impact	Root cause	Duration
Sep 2109:44 UTC	Delayed Monitors Notifications	minor	Not disclosed	46m
Sep 2005:17 UTC	Delayed events triggered by emails	minor	Not disclosed	1h 36m
Sep 317:20 UTC	Delayed CICD Optimization, Code Coverage, Code Security, and DORA data	minor	Not disclosed	5h 41m
Sep 201:07 UTC	Delayed DBM Monitor Evaluation	minor	Not disclosed	17m
Aug 618:51 UTC	Delayed Processes data	minor	Not disclosed	46m
Jul 3007:44 UTC	Delayed Evaluation of Service Check monitors	minor	Not disclosed	43m
Jul 2915:41 UTC	Real user monitoring, distribution and custom processes metrics delayed	minor	Not disclosed	1h 46m
Jul 2719:05 UTC	Synthetics Test Results Delayed	major	Not disclosed	46m
Jul 2317:08 UTC	Latency with Pages and Monitor state changes	minor	Not disclosed	1h 5m
Jul 1014:09 UTC	Delayed data streams data	major	Not disclosed	1h 50m
Jul 300:25 UTC	Errors Pulling Container Images	critical	Not disclosed	1h 3m
Jul 118:31 UTC	Elevated Error Rates	none	Not disclosed	2h 6m
Jun 3017:51 UTC	Delayed data processing and errors in multiple products	major	Not disclosed	2h 41m
Jun 3010:35 UTC	Delayed Monitors Notifications	major	Not disclosed	44m
Jun 2613:38 UTC	Delayed APM Trace Metrics	none	Not disclosed	7m
Jun 2523:23 UTC	Delayed CI Visibility data	minor	Not disclosed	9m
Jun 2221:27 UTC	Metrics Queries	major	Not disclosed	1h 14m
Jun 1816:13 UTC	Delayed Events	minor	Not disclosed	20m
Jun 1217:12 UTC	Delayed Evaluation	minor	Not disclosed	2h 27m
Jun 811:05 UTC	Increased latency across multiple products	minor	Not disclosed	1h 54m
May 1602:17 UTC	Azure Metrics Reporting	critical	Not disclosed	1h 26m
May 1418:24 UTC	Delayed Metric Loading	minor	Not disclosed	1h 24m
May 1315:16 UTC	Degraded Web Application Performance	minor	Not disclosed	37m
May 800:06 UTC	Delayed Monitors Notifications	critical	Dependency	14h 1m
May 518:14 UTC	Delays in APM-based Monitor Notifications	minor	Not disclosed	1h 38m
May 100:45 UTC	Elevated Error Rates for Metrics Queries	major	Not disclosed	34m
Apr 2416:27 UTC	Delays in AWS and Azure cloud integration metrics ingestion	major	Not disclosed	23m
Apr 1522:38 UTC	Delayed Metrics	major	Not disclosed	1h 59m
Apr 1014:54 UTC	Notifications to Pagerduty, VictorOps, Slack, Webhook, Microsoft Teams and OpsGenie are not delivered	major	Not disclosed	6h 6m
Mar 2718:57 UTC	Delayed Traces in APM Trace Search	major	Not disclosed	33m
Mar 2614:24 UTC	Delayed Monitors Notifications	major	Not disclosed	5h 32m
Mar 1900:54 UTC	Intermittent "No Data" Status for Monitors	major	Not disclosed	1h 59m
Mar 1309:26 UTC	Web Application Not Loading	critical	Not disclosed	1h 4m
Feb 2404:31 UTC	Delayed RUM data	minor	Not disclosed	2h 37m
Feb 1819:30 UTC	Monitors - Delayed Evaluation for Multiple Products	minor	Not disclosed	1h 7m
Feb 1200:57 UTC	Delayed Traces in APM	minor	Not disclosed	1h 11m
Feb 1120:56 UTC	Delayed Traces in APM Trace Search	minor	Not disclosed	2h 48m
Feb 515:24 UTC	Delays in Monitor Evaluations	major	Not disclosed	2h 18m
Jan 2917:35 UTC	Delayed Distribution Monitors Evaluations	critical	Not disclosed	2h 20m
Jan 2820:30 UTC	Monitors - Delayed Evaluation	minor	Not disclosed	3h 6m

About Datadog

Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

The last year, day by day

No incident Minor Major CriticalDeeper colour: longer outage

Downtime, added up

Data and observability median

5h 41m

Datadog: 33m weighted downtime in range, category median 5h 41m.

14 incidents, 5 major or critical, 19h 44m of incident time (7h 4m major or critical, 12h 40m partial), longest 5h 41m, implied uptime 99.97%, between Jun 27, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026.

Stated causes

54 incidents with no cause stated.

Postmortems

Started	Incident	Impact	Root cause	Duration
Mar 806:03 UTC	OS update breaks networking across regions	critical	Deployment	26h 55m

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Questions

Is Datadog down right now?

Check Datadog's own status page at https://status.datadoghq.com for the live state. This page shows Datadog's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-09-21: "Delayed Monitors Notifications".

How often does Datadog have outages?

Datadog posted 14 incidents in the last 90 days and 55 in the last year, 5 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 1h 4m.

When was Datadog's last major outage?

2026-07-27: "Synthetics Test Results Delayed", lasting 46m.

What usually causes Datadog incidents?

Where Datadog explained the cause, the most common was third-party dependency (1 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.

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