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Datadog outage: Delayed APM metric ingestion

Datadog reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Dec 12, 2025, 18:37 UTC. It was resolved after 3h 15m.

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Dec 12, 2025, 18:37 UTC
started
Dec 12, 2025, 21:52 UTC
resolved
3h 15m
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • Metrics and Infra Monitoring
  1. resolvedDec 12, 2025, 21:52 UTC

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

  2. identifiedDec 12, 2025, 20:53 UTC

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

  3. investigatingDec 12, 2025, 19:26 UTC

    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. investigatingDec 12, 2025, 18:55 UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  5. investigatingDec 12, 2025, 18:37 UTC

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

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Datadog's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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Datadog outage on Dec 12, 2025: Delayed APM metric ingestion · APIStatus.watch