OpsGenie is an IT monitoring and incident response platform for development and operations teams, providing alerts and schedule management escalations. OpsGenie is now part of Atlassian since the late 2018 acquisition.
OpsGenie is more flexible in the setup. I'm not sure if Resolver evolve to something more like OpsGenie but the mobile access we had with OpsGenie was excellent compared with Resolver. There was other software that we used in my company but that either we didn't use it for …
similar functionality to pager duty - we were able to use OpsGenie instead because of better ROI because we were adding a larger number of users than we had previously used. It seemed to scale better with our growth - we also use a few other Atlassian tools so it was nice to …
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 …
Much more pricing friendly than PagerDuty but I haven't done the comparison in years so not sure how pricing/features stack up nowadays. Been very happy with OpsGenie.
I didn't participate in the tool selection, and I don't know other similar tools. Although I think OpsGenie suits well in all the scenarios we have, so I would choose this tools again.
Have done a POC with PagerDuty in the past when evaluating OpsGenie and just liked the clean look and feel of OpsGenie better along with their already extensive list of integrations. The integrations was probably the key deciding factor in us not going with PagerDuty at the time.
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.
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.
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
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
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