Everbridge IT Alerting vs. OpsGenie

Targeting people (or their SIM cards to be specific) in a specific area and warning them about a hazard in their neighbourhood is the intended use, and it executes that perfectly. In addition we have implemented the traveller alert where we can send messages to all Icelandic SIM cards present inside another Country (another Country code), and send them messages about f.ex. terrorist attack and provide guidelines about where they shoud seek assistance if needed. A slight minus here is that you can only address entire countries, where it might be useful to have next level of area codes.

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Incident response is well suited to OpsGenie, and this is where it really shines—whether it's an outage, a security incident, or similar. My experience is mostly with security, and it offers a great audit trail. It minimises the need to cut and paste from different platforms when creating reports and ensures that what was said and what was done (along with any evidence) is persisted and reflected in the incident detail.

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• Notifying through all the possible way like sms,mail and call.
• Ita shows the activity log it is usefull when your paging team through the incident through that you can check who has acknowledged or not.
• Notify the alerts to engineer as well as you can also add the description about alerts related what is it.
• Here you can schedule for on-call engineers

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• OpsGenie New Jira design has made it difficult for those not familiar with that style.
• OpsGenie could benefit from nested escalation flows for team schedules. Creating a product alert that uses and Tech Schedule as well as an Incident Manager Schedule that already exists would create less overhead and ease management.

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I would really like to have easier reporting. What warnings were issued, when, and received by how many, by operator or area etc..

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In general terms OpsGenie is a well done tool for solving the alert incident management, the usability is super ok during the configuration and during the alert. The main opportunity I found is the reporting and analytics section which is a little difficult to understand at a first sight and the refresh is not automatic, some little frictions but frictions at all

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The support team has been very supportive, but there is only so much they can do, and of course sometimes things take a bit too long for my impatience.

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They are fully available at all times via chat, phone, or email and follow up thoroughly.

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I have reviewed quite a few at conferences, but none to the depth of installation and use.

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We also looked at PagerDuty but decided to go with OpsGenie as it had more features on the plan we needed compared to PagerDuty which would have required us to spend a lot more for what we felt were non-premium features. Everything felt like an add-on - automation for an additional $20 a user per month seemed like a lot on top of the base plan

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• The government has the duty to equip itself with a mechanism to warn its people. It has allocated that duty to us, and we have chosen Everbridge to provide us the tool for that duty. It is very well suited to fulfill that role.

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• Helped us track bugs and issues that came up during product launch periods which reduced overhead that normally came with needing to manually contact the right team members
• Prevented last minute breaking issues from falling through the cracks, decreased time to fix by automatically alerting the team members and allowing the product and project teams to easily see what active alerts are in progress

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