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Datadog: Major incident: Intermittent "No Data" Status for Monitors

Summary

Datadog reported a major incident where some metric monitors intermittently showed "No Data," primarily affecting distribution-metric monitors and making alerting potentially unreliable. It started at 2026-03-19 00:54 UTC and lasted 1 h 59 min, resolving at 2026-03-19 02:53 UTC; a fix was implemented.

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Major incidentLabel: degradation (model (Jev), 92%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

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AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
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After: We are investigating an issue causing some metric monitors to intermittently report "No Data" status. This primarily affects monitors based on distribution metrics. Monitor alerting may be unreliable during this time. We are actively investigating and will provide updates as available.
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After: We are continuing to investigate the issue and will provide updates as available.
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After: We are continuing to investigate the issue and will provide updates as available.
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After: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
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After: This incident has been resolved.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Intermittent "No Data" Status for Monitors (this change)
Datadog reported a major incident where some metric monitors intermittently showed "No Data," primarily affecting distribution-metric monitors and making alerting potentially unreliable. It started at 2026-03-19 00:54 UTC and lasted 1 h 59 min, resolving at 2026-03-19 02:53 UTC; a fix was implemented.
Major incident

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