Datadog outage on 26 October 2026
Major outageAn email when it goes down, and when it’s back.
“Elevated Error Rates for Workflow Automation, App Builder, Bits Code, Bits Agent Builder”
On 26 October, Datadog had a major outage from 17:27 to 18:24 UTC (57 minutes) affecting Workflow Automation, App Builder, Bits Code and Agent Builder in its US1 datacenter, with Workflow Automation marked as a critical outage. The status page said workflows and App Builder apps using JavaScript or Python could fail and Bits Code sessions might not start; it reported deploying a fix at 17:40 and marked the incident resolved at 18:23. FACEIT and OpenAI also reported minor issues at the same time.
Datadog’s own incident page ↗- When
- 17:27–18:24 UTC
- How long
- 57 min
- Incident open on its page
- 17:26–18:23 UTC
- Components affected
- 3
- Datadog, 30 days before
- No other outages
What broke when
From Datadog’s own status page: when it moved each component into trouble, and back.
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 94 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- Workflow Automation: major outage
- App Builder: degraded performance
- Bits AI: degraded performance
- Cause identified
- Workflow Automation: partial outage
- Fix in place, monitoring
- Workflow Automation: degraded performance
- Resolved
- Workflow Automation: back to normal
- App Builder: back to normal
- Bits AI: back to normal
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads Datadog’s official status page at status.datadoghq.com every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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