Datadog outage on May 5 — 2h 13m disruption
May 5, 06:19 PM → May 5, 08:33 PM · 2h 13m · medium
Datadog experienced a service disruption on May 5, 2026. This incident was detected via user reports indicating issues with the platform. The service was fully restored on May 5, 2026, at 20:33 UTC.
Impact
During the incident, users reported experiencing slow and unresponsive behavior across the Datadog platform. A total of 28 user reports were received, with a peak of 10 reports within a 15-minute period. All reported issues were related to the service being slow or unresponsive. No specific regional impact was recorded during this event.
Top reported issues
- Slow / unresponsive28
Incident timeline
- May 5, 06:19 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (medium severity)
- May 5, 06:23 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 06:28 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 06:30 PM
Peak of 4 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.3)
- May 5, 06:38 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 06:43 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 06:53 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 06:58 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 07:08 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 07:13 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 07:23 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 07:28 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 07:38 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 07:43 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 07:53 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 07:58 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 08:08 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 08:13 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 08:33 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 5, 06:19 PM
Datadog status page acknowledged the incident.
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