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Live status pulled from status.datadoghq.com, cached and revalidated every 60 seconds. Below: the components that can break, what to do during an incident, and how to keep your scheduled jobs running independently.
About Datadog status
Datadog is the largest full-stack observability platform, covering APM, infrastructure metrics, logs, RUM, synthetic monitoring, and security. Incidents are usually scoped to a specific product (Logs, APM, Metrics) and a specific region (US1, US3, US5, EU1, AP1, or the Gov site), so a red banner on one site rarely affects every customer at once.
Components and surfaces that can break
- Surface 01
Per-region site availability (US1, US3, US5, EU1, AP1).
- Surface 02
Specific products: APM traces, Logs ingestion, Metrics intake, RUM, Synthetics.
- Surface 03
Alerts and notifications (Monitors, downtimes, integrations to Slack and PagerDuty).
Recent Datadog incidents
Datadog maintains a public incident history. Read the latest entries to see whether you're hitting a known issue, and look at the post-mortems for context on how long similar incidents typically take to clear.
What to do if Datadog is actually down
Identify which Datadog site you're on
Most large customers are pinned to a single region: US1 (app.datadoghq.com), US3, US5, EU1 (app.datadoghq.eu), AP1, or the Gov site. The status page lists each region as a separate row. An incident affecting US3 is irrelevant if your account lives on EU1, so confirm the right row before paging anyone.
Trace and log ingestion can buffer briefly
When the Logs or APM intake is degraded, the Datadog Agent buffers locally for a short window (often on the order of hours, depending on disk and config). You don't immediately lose data; you just stop seeing it in the UI until intake recovers. Avoid restarting agents mid-incident, since that can drop the in-memory buffer before it has a chance to flush.
Don't trust Datadog Monitors during a Datadog outage
If Datadog itself is down, Monitors that depend on it can't evaluate or notify. For anything truly page-worthy (auth, payments, the database), keep a secondary alert channel that does not depend on Datadog: an external HTTP probe, a separate status endpoint with its own pager, or a peer platform redundancy.
Keep firing through the incident
Schedule your own Datadog health check with Crontap
Hourly metric exports to a SQL warehouse, daily dashboard screenshots to Slack, weekly SLO burn-rate digests. Crontap fires the endpoint that queries the Datadog API on the cadence you set and processes the result, retries on 5xx, and surfaces the response body in the failure alert so a transient Datadog API blip doesn't kill the whole run.
External HTTP cron hits your endpoint on the cadence you pick, stores every response, and emails you the moment a run fails. Pro schedules down to 1 minute; $3.25/mo annual flat for unlimited jobs.
Go deeper
Datadog status: FAQ
- Where can I see the official Datadog status?
- status.datadoghq.com publishes per-product, per-region status across US1, US3, US5, EU1, AP1, and the Gov site. The history page tracks past incidents and the Atom feed at /history.atom is good for scripting your own mirror or piping incidents into Slack.
- Can I verify Datadog is receiving my events on a schedule?
- Yes. Set up a small heartbeat: a Crontap schedule that calls a backend endpoint, which submits a synthetic metric or log line to the Datadog API. Then create a Datadog Monitor on 'no data for 5 minutes' against that metric. If the heartbeat stops landing, you know ingestion is broken on your account before it surfaces on the public status page.
- How do I check the right Datadog region for my account?
- Look at the URL you log in to. app.datadoghq.com is US1, app.us3.datadoghq.com is US3, app.us5.datadoghq.com is US5, app.datadoghq.eu is EU1, and ap1.datadoghq.com is AP1. The status page uses the same naming, so you can match the row to your login domain and ignore incidents on other sites.