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Datadog: Delayed APM metric ingestion

Impact: majorStatus: resolvedStarted Resolved (3.3 h)5 updatesSource: stspg.io (opens in new tab)
Summary

Datadog reported a major APM and process metric ingestion delay starting 2025-12-12 18:37 UTC, affecting monitor evaluation and causing some incorrect alerts. The incident was resolved at 2025-12-12 21:52 UTC after 3 h 15 min; APM impact ended, while remaining live process data impact was tracked in a separate incident.

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Affected components: Metrics and Infra Monitoring

Timeline of updates

  1. investigating

    We are currently investigating lag in ingesting apm metrics, which affects monitor evaluation.

  2. investigating

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. investigating

    We are currently investigating lag in ingesting apm and process metrics, which affects monitor evaluation and in some cases led to incorrect monitor alerts.

  4. identified

    We have identified the issue affecting ingestion delays in apm and process metrics and are working on recovery

  5. resolved

    All impact related to APM metrics has been resolved. A separate incident has been created to track the remaining impact in live process data.

Rewindex changes for this incident

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