PagerDuty

Overview
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PagerDuty
Score 8.6 out of 10
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PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) provides digital operations management. Serving organizations of all sizes, PagerDuty aims to help them deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers, every time.
$25
per month per user
Pricing
PagerDuty
Editions & Modules
Professional
$25
per month per user
Business
$49
per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PagerDuty
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
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Chose PagerDuty
OpsGenie was useful, mainly for teams already using Atlassian tools, and xMatters was good for handling team communication during incidents, but PagerDuty felt more complete for managing the full incident process in one place. We went with PagerDuty because it manages alerts, …
Chose PagerDuty
We earlier used Zabbix mainly for monitoring servers and getting alerts, and it worked well for that. But it was more focused on showing issues, not managing how teams respond to them. PagerDuty helped us handle incidents better by assigning alerts to the right person, managing …
Chose PagerDuty
PagerDuty provides indepth analysis of the system failure and it only notify one time instead of multiple times for same system failure notification.
Chose PagerDuty
We previously used to use Splunk On Call (our former tool) before we came across PagerDuty and after evaluating both of guess what we found was PagerDuty was meeting the needs we wanted to fullfill as from our collections process point of view such as automation and escalations …
Chose PagerDuty
Its an overall better product which has no downtime. It has the fastest incident response time and provides all the features at a competitive price.
Chose PagerDuty
Its overall better than every other tool coz it combines alerts automation analytics and ecosystem support.
Chose PagerDuty
Pager duty is better than OpsGenie because it offers stronger automation, smarter incident workflows, deeper integrations and better reporting. Teams respond faster, follow consistent processes, and handle complex incidents more efficiently, making it more suitable for growing …
Chose PagerDuty
I haven't used it hardcore, but it was ok may be I haven't got the full gist of it, but I really think PagerDuty is really superior to it.
Chose PagerDuty
Reporting and analytics are not well comparing to PagerDuty
Chose PagerDuty
There were more features and more ways to contact the provider. Ring Central would send out a call. I don't remember sending an email or text when I was paged. It seemed it was only an app on my phone and not located on my computer, where I could access it when I was working on …
Chose PagerDuty
Based on price and need, PagerDuty was the best option
Chose PagerDuty
PagerDuty has its advantages and costs associated. We use alternative to mitigate risk of failure, priority and effectiveness.
Chose PagerDuty
Better at the immediate response workflow
Chose PagerDuty
most of the team members were familiar with pagerduty and since its battletested and widely adopted and pricing was also competitive hence we have chosen pagerduty
Chose PagerDuty
PagerDuty provides better cost to value, and also includes AI based recommendations. Overall automatons possibilities are also great with this and since we have multiple integrations as well as we cannot easily to existing systems.
For us the responsive and helpful sales team …
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We have not used another product in this space.
Chose PagerDuty
When we selected PagerDuty, we evaluated a few other solutions including Moogsoft, BigPanda, VictorOps and Splunk Enterprise. We decided on PagerDuty specifically for the automated on-call escalation capabilities. At the time when we subscribed to PagerDuty, event management …
Chose PagerDuty
Pagerduty is user adaptive and an indsutry leader in the incident managment/alerting management.
Chose PagerDuty
We have used Five9 for other features but haven't seriously considered using them for replacing PagerDuty. Our company already had PagerDuty when I joined and we haven't evaluated any other option.
Chose PagerDuty
PD is a set-it-and-forget-it solution. The application is reliable, has many features, and will drag a tech out of the deepest sleep so to put out a fire. OpsGenie is clunky at best. It can work, but the paging is unreliable, the schedule is a nightmare, and the integrations …
Chose PagerDuty
I have not use the 2 technologies for as long as I have used PagerDuty but in my opinion PagerDuty makes things a lot easier. The other tools got the job done and got alerts out but PagerDuty just seemed to make the setup for on-call alert schedules and integrations easier …
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User Ratings
PagerDuty
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(146 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.8
(6 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(86 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
PagerDuty
Likelihood to Recommend
PagerDuty
PagerDuty is well-suited for teams or companies that need immediate response, such as production outages, server downtime, failed deployments, API failures, or critical infrastructure alerts. For example, if any company is doing work that requires immediate attention to any problem that arises due to a delay, it means the company loses money; PagerDuty would be the best fit for that company.
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Pros
PagerDuty
  • PagerDuty feels like something you can absolutely rely on... because in the rarest case where an alert is not acknowledged by the relevant agent, the alert automatically is escalated to our TL, which saves any possible errors or misses.
  • In terms of integration, I would rate it a 9.4 as it's absolutely seamless with Microsoft Teams or emails, ultimately resulting in a reduction of errors in work, which I greatly appreciate about PagerDuty.
  • In some cases, when an account requires input from multiple agents, PagerDuty makes sure to notify each of the relevant ones.
  • Other than this, sometimes when we have new joinings, it becomes easy for us to train them because every alert or response is recorded or logged. Because of this feature, we are able to check our past actions as well, so that a good feature about PagerDuty.
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Cons
PagerDuty
  • When I open PagerDuty the page does look a little cluttered or busy.
  • It would be nice to go to the page with clear and straightforward instructions on what I must address.
  • Ability to change the color background.
  • Add a timer and alarms for tasks that need completed.
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Likelihood to Renew
PagerDuty
They have been rock solid for us thus far and are not very expensive and to be honest no time to evaluate other software at this point.
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Usability
PagerDuty
The UI is more complex than I would like. Part of the challenge is that most users use PagerDuty infrequently; I don't remember how I changed a policy last time. Another part of the challenge is that some users expect alerting to be a trivial feature, and are reluctant to invest any time in reading the documentation.
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Support Rating
PagerDuty
PagerDuty is reliable and easy to set up. It gives an effective way to notify the team about critical incidents which results in a faster turnaround time on issues. users can customize their alerts rules based on their preferences. Overall it's effective and easy to use which adds great business value.
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Implementation Rating
PagerDuty
When I setup notifications to PD thru the Python API I was impressed with the ease with which I could set up the software/service.
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Alternatives Considered
PagerDuty
I have not use the 2 technologies for as long as I have used PagerDuty but in my opinion PagerDuty makes things a lot easier. The other tools got the job done and got alerts out but PagerDuty just seemed to make the setup for on-call alert schedules and integrations easier than the others. This isn't to say the others are difficult, just that PagerDuty was slightly better. I also have noticed that more tools have options to integrate to PagerDuty over the other tools.
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Return on Investment
PagerDuty
  • Allow our service to be available 24/7 with minimal downtime, improving customer experience
  • Monitor incidents and allow us to customize/schedule alert notifications, making engineers' jobs easier and preventing turnover
  • Prevent SEVs that could deteriorate, bring down our service, and cost us millions of dollars from loss in bookings
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ScreenShots

PagerDuty Screenshots

Screenshot of Similar Incidents [Apple iPad], Open Incidents [iPhone 8], On-Call Schedule Menu [Apple Watch])Screenshot of the Machine Learning with Technical Service Dependencies, used to better understand related incidents.Screenshot of a glimpse of service health and team performance via PagerDuty’s Intelligent Dashboards.