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Datadog: Major incident: Delays in Monitor Evaluations

Summary

Datadog reported a major incident involving delays in monitor evaluations, starting 2026-02-05 15:24 UTC and resolved at 2026-02-05 17:43 UTC, lasting 2 h 18 min. Customers could experience delayed monitor evaluations across the listed services; Datadog reported full monitor recovery at 17:23 UTC but provided no specific cause or fix.

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Major incidentLabel: degradation (model (Jev), 100%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: Delays in Monitor Evaluations
AddedImpact#2
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After: major
AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
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After: 2026-02-05 15:24 UTC
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After: 2026-02-05 17:43 UTC
AddedAffected components#6
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After: APM, Application Security Management, Cloud SIEM, Incident Response, Log Management, Metrics and Infra Monitoring, Monitors, RUM, Synthetics
AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
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After: We are currently investigating this issue.
AddedUpdateinvestigating#8
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After: We are continuing to investigate this issue.
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After: We are continuing to investigate this issue.
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After: We are continuing to investigate this issue.
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After: We are continuing to investigate this issue.
AddedUpdateidentified#12
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After: The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
AddedUpdateidentified#13
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After: We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
AddedUpdateidentified#14
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After: We are observing recovery for the vast majority of monitors and are continuing to work on a full fix for this issue.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#15
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After: We have observed full recovery of monitors and will continue to monitor
AddedUpdateresolved#16
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After: This incident has been resolved.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Delays in Monitor Evaluations (this change)
Datadog reported a major incident involving delays in monitor evaluations, starting 2026-02-05 15:24 UTC and resolved at 2026-02-05 17:43 UTC, lasting 2 h 18 min. Customers could experience delayed monitor evaluations across the listed services; Datadog reported full monitor recovery at 17:23 UTC but provided no specific cause or fix.
Major incident

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