Datadog outage on 28 October 2026
Major outageAn email when it goes down, and when it’s back.
“Metrics query are disrupted”
On 28 October, Datadog had a major outage affecting metrics queries from 16:14 to 18:40 UTC, lasting 2 h 26 min; the status page incident ran from 16:10 to 18:39 UTC. Metrics and Infra Monitoring was disrupted first, and from 16:40 APM, RUM, Cloud Network Monitoring, Cloud Cost Management, Product Analytics and Bits AI were also listed as affected. The first update said alerts were not affected, but Monitors was later shown as a major outage from 16:56 to 18:18 UTC, while ClubReady, Claude, Supabase, Stripe and Close also had problems at the same time.
Datadog’s own incident page ↗- When
- 16:14–18:40 UTC
- How long
- 2 h 26 min
- Incident open on its page
- 16:10–18:39 UTC
- Components affected
- 8
- Datadog, 30 days before
- 1 other outage
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 175 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- Metrics and Infra Monitoring: partial outage
- APM: partial outage
- RUM: degraded performance
- Cloud Network Monitoring: partial outage
- Cloud Cost Management: partial outage
- Product Analytics: partial outage
- Bits AI: degraded performance
- Monitors: partial outage
- Cause identified
- Metrics and Infra Monitoring: degraded performance
- APM: degraded performance
- Cloud Network Monitoring: degraded performance
- Cloud Cost Management: degraded performance
- Product Analytics: degraded performance
- Monitors: degraded performance
- Fix in place, monitoring
- Metrics and Infra Monitoring: back to normal
- Monitors: back to normal
- RUM: back to normal
- Cloud Network Monitoring: back to normal
- Cloud Cost Management: back to normal
- Product Analytics: back to normal
- Bits AI: back to normal
- Resolved
- APM: 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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