Changes / Datadog / Elevated Error Rates for Metrics Queries
Datadog: Major incident: Elevated Error Rates for Metrics Queries
Summary
Datadog reported a major incident affecting Metrics Queries, with some users seeing errors in metrics graphs on the web application or API. It lasted 34 min, from 2026-05-01 00:45 UTC to 2026-05-01 01:19 UTC; Datadog deployed a fix at 01:09 UTC and subsequently confirmed resolution.
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What changed
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After: Elevated Error Rates for Metrics Queries
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After: major
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After: resolved
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After: 2026-05-01 00:45 UTC
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After: 2026-05-01 01:19 UTC
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After: APM, Metrics and Infra Monitoring
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After: We are actively investigating elevated error rates for Metrics Queries.
As a result of this issue, some users may see errors with metrics graphs on the web application or API.
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After: We have deployed a fix and we are monitoring the results.
We will provide another update once the service is fully operational.
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After: This incident has been resolved.
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History of this incident
| When (UTC) | Change | Kind |
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| Major incident: Elevated Error Rates for Metrics Queries (this change) Datadog reported a major incident affecting Metrics Queries, with some users seeing errors in metrics graphs on the web application or API. It lasted 34 min, from 2026-05-01 00:45 UTC to 2026-05-01 01:19 UTC; Datadog deployed a fix at 01:09 UTC and subsequently confirmed resolution. | Major incident |