# Datadog: Elevated Error Rates for Metrics Queries

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-05-01 00:45 UTC · Resolved: 2026-05-01 01:19 UTC · Duration: 34 min
- Updates: 3 · Affected components: APM, Metrics and Infra Monitoring
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/17n4grhvbmjt](https://stspg.io/17n4grhvbmjt)
- [Company: Datadog](https://rewindex.com/company/datadog.md)

## 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. _(machine-written, sol)_
## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2026-05-01 00:45 UTC: 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.
- **monitoring** 2026-05-01 01:09 UTC: We have deployed a fix and we are monitoring the results. We will provide another update once the service is fully operational.
- **resolved** 2026-05-01 01:19 UTC: This incident has been resolved.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2026-05-01 00:45 UTC: [Major incident: Elevated Error Rates for Metrics Queries](https://rewindex.com/change/ic75adee5227994.md)


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