Datadog is the leading cloud-scale monitoring and observability platform, providing infrastructure monitoring, APM (Application Performance Monitoring), log management, real user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, and security monitoring. Used by over 26,000 customers including some of the world's largest enterprises, Datadog ingests trillions of data points daily to provide unified visibility across cloud infrastructure, applications, and services. The platform integrates with over 700 technologies and cloud services to deliver comprehensive observability.
Datadog outages are particularly notable because the monitoring platform going down means teams lose visibility into their own infrastructure during the exact moments when visibility matters most. Common causes include metric ingestion pipeline overloads during traffic spikes, dashboard rendering backend failures, alert evaluation delays, and log indexing pipeline congestion. Regional data center issues can affect specific customer tenants without impacting the entire platform.
When Datadog goes down, engineering teams lose observability into their production systems at the worst possible time. Dashboards showing critical metrics go blank, automated alerts stop firing, and APM traces become unavailable for debugging production incidents. Teams relying solely on Datadog for monitoring are effectively flying blind. The irony of a monitoring service outage compounds the impact — teams cannot diagnose whether their own services are affected because their observability tool is down.
Use this page to check Datadog availability. When your monitoring platform is down, you need an independent way to verify it. Check status.datadoghq.com for official incident reports. Datadog outages can be region-specific, so your US dashboard may work while EU customers experience issues.
When Datadog's alert evaluation system is impacted, your configured alerts will not fire even if your infrastructure is experiencing problems. This is the most dangerous aspect of a monitoring platform outage. Set up backup monitoring with PinusX for your most critical endpoints to ensure you always have an independent alerting path.
Datadog's agents buffer metrics locally during ingestion outages and attempt to forward them once service resumes. However, buffer sizes are limited, so extended outages may result in gaps in your metric data. Custom metrics sent via the API may be lost if your application does not implement retry logic with sufficient buffering.
Dashboard performance degradation often precedes a full Datadog outage. Complex dashboards with many widgets, large time ranges, or high-cardinality queries are affected first. Check status.datadoghq.com for any acknowledged performance issues. If only specific dashboards are slow, try reducing the number of widgets or narrowing the time window.
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