Delayed APM metric ingestion

highDatadogMonitoringDec 12, 2025 18:37Duration: 3h 15m

api

API Issue

Summary

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

Impact

major

Timeline

Dec 12, 2025 18:37

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

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+18m

Dec 12, 2025 18:55

[investigating] We are continuing to investigate this issue.

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+31m

Dec 12, 2025 19:26

[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.

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+1h 27m

Dec 12, 2025 20:53

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

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+59m

Dec 12, 2025 21:52

[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.

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Lessons Learned

⚠Datadog has experienced 33 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 186 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.