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    OpsGenie (sunset)

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AOpsGenie is an IT monitoring and incident response platform for development and operations teams, providing alerts and schedule management escalations. OpsGenie became part of Atlassian since the late 2018 acquisition, and Atlassian scheduled OpsGenie for sunsetting in April of 2027. Former users and those needing IT Alert Management capabilities are encouraged to migrate to Jira Service…

    $0

    up to 5 users

    PagerDuty

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APagerDuty, 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
    OpsGenie (sunset)PagerDuty
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0.00
    up to 5 users
    Essentials
    $9.00
    per user/per month
    Standard
    $19.00
    per user/per month
    Enterprise
    $29.00
    per user/per month
    Professional
    $25
    per month per user
    Business
    $49
    per month per user
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    OpsGenie (sunset)PagerDuty
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    Chose OpsGenie (sunset)
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose OpsGenie (sunset)
    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.
    Incentivized
    Chose OpsGenie (sunset)
    We felt that OpsGenie was more intuitive and worked well for our existing toolset and workflow as a business.
    Incentivized
    Chose OpsGenie (sunset)
    The UI is user friendly of opsgenie easy to use even for non technical people
    Incentivized
    Chose OpsGenie (sunset)
    • Simple GUI and customisation is much easier in OpsGenie.
    • Mobile app is much better.
    Incentivized
    Chose OpsGenie (sunset)
    OPsGenie was already chosen when i joined the company so I don't have an answer to this question but surely they must have evaluated PagerDuty.
    Incentivized
    Chose OpsGenie (sunset)
    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.
    Incentivized
    PagerDuty
    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, …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    OpsGenie is an amazing application and cheaper than PagerDuty. But PagerDuty is better with alerts and it has no downtime. PagerDuty autoamtes the work better than OpsGenie.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    Only 1 thing, it's cheaper than OpsGenie; both eventually do the same work, but PagerDuty does it better and cheaper.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    Very comparable functionality between OpsGenie and PagerDuty.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    My last experience with OpsGenie was the pre-Atlassian acquisition. At the time there was no SLA, which was an immediate showstopper. We had missed alerts as well with OpsGenie, so we switched to PD. I'd have to think with Atlassian owning OG now, that if we had a bake-off …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    There is too little of a difference between OpsGenie and PagerDuty. Both tools are really great and do the job they promise very well. If I had to choose, I'd go with PagerDuty. This is not because of any features or because it's better. It is because I've been using it for the …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    PagerDuty has better integrations than OpsGenie. One integration that PagerDuty supports that OpsGenie does not is integration into Microsoft Flow. This allows us further opportunity to automate the routing of certain incidents. Other than that, we did not consider any …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    When compared to VictorOps and OpsGenie, PagerDuty is clearly the best of the breed. It provides a more polished UI, more integrations, and more features than the others, but it's priced at a premium. Smaller teams will probably get more value out of another alternative that …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    We looked at OpsGenie. At the time of the selection, PagerDuty seemed the more robust solution.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    OpsGenie provides a much better cost model for our company, we can now add all the users we need and we are extremely happy with it. Also, their support is very responsive and migrating was pretty easy. Their bi-directional Nagios integration is also very useful.
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    Based on price and need, PagerDuty was the best option
    Incentivized
    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
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    Pagerduty is user adaptive and an indsutry leader in the incident managment/alerting management.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    After evaluation of the other two products on the market, we opted for PagerDuty, for its reliability, flexibility, and functionality.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    While more costly than the competitors, PagerDuty has more functionality and is the better tool. There are more integrations, the UI is cleaner, and there are more features and options.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    Both the above products (although they could do more, such as alert filtering), were too bulky and cumbersome. Building simple alerts and integrations were time-consuming and more hassle then they should have been. Escalation policies were also difficult and cumbersome to set …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    While both products showed promise, ultimately PagerDuty had a proven track record that spoke to us.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    Through our evaluation, we selected PagerDuty, mainly because of its user interface and the ability for support managers to configure it without additional support.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    The feature set is better.
    Incentivized
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    OpsGenie (sunset)PagerDuty
    Highlights

    TrustRadius
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    Published

    OpsGenie and PagerDuty are both IT incident management tools. They also offer on-call schedule and rotation management capabilities. OpsGenie has been acquired by Atlassian to join its IT portfolio, while PagerDuty is a standalone solution. 

    OpsGenie is an Atlassian IT monitoring and incident response platform, which emphasizes its integrations with the rest of organizations’ tech stacks and the platform’s relatively lower price point. In contrast, PagerDuty’s incident resolution service specializes in alert management and quality customer support for larger organizations and enterprises. 

    Features

    OpsGenie and PagerDuty both offer strong capabilities tailored to their respective user bases.

    OpsGenie excels as an integrated tool within businesses’ broader IT ecosystems. Reviewers highlight OpsGenie’s native integrations with 3rd party systems. These integrations also facilitate coordination and communications across different teams for more streamlined IT incident escalation and resolution. 

    On the other hand, PagerDuty stands out for its alert management and aggregation at scale. It features very flexible and adaptable escalation rules to meet each business’s unique needs. Reviewers also highlight PagerDuty’s alert management and aggregation when wrangling a wide array of alerts across the enterprise. 

    Limitations

    OpsGenie and PagerDuty also have various limitations worth keeping in mind. 

    OpsGenie has been criticized for its user interface, which some reviewers say is not accessible for some users. In particular, alert administration can be difficult to conduct, such as routing alerts to specific individuals. If alert routing isn’t carefully managed, they can be sent to the wrong personnel, resulting in missed alerts. 

    In contrast, PagerDuty’s mobile application has been consistently criticized by reviewers. It lacks functionality found in the desktop version, and is not viable as an alternate administrative portal. There are also some 3rd party tools with limited or insufficient integrations. 

    Pricing

    OpsGenie offers 4 packages:

    • The free version provides basic alerting and on-call management for up to 5 users. 
    • The Essential plan, at $9/user/month, provides additional incident management and alerting, as well as various Jira integrations. 
    • The Standard plan, at $19/user/month, offers unlimited alerting and incident management, including more customization and integrations. 
    • The Enterprise plan, at $29/user/month, provides the full incident management platform and additional reporting capabilities. 

    PagerDuty offers 5 different plans, each tier adding functionalities on the lower-tier plan:

    • The Free plan provides on-call scheduling, unlimited API calls, and always-up service for up to 5 users. 
    • The Starter plan, at $10/user/month for up to 6 users, ads unlimited domestic text notifications and escalation policies, as well as 1 year data access and email/chat support. 
    • The Team plan, at $29/user/month, adds unlimited global phone/text notifications, more integrates, response orchestration, and a status dashboard. 
    • The Business plan, at $39/user/month, adds SSO and advanced permissions, advanced integrations, unlimited data access, and phone support. 
    • The Digital Operations plan, priced by quote from the vendor, provides a suite of add-on products, more automation, event management, analytics, and a visibility console.
    User Ratings
    OpsGenie (sunset)PagerDuty
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (21 ratings)
    8.6
    (173 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (86 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpsGenie (sunset)PagerDuty
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    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.
    Incentivized
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    PagerDuty
    To be sincere, PagerDuty is a powerful, intelligent, and dependable on-call and incident management tool that provides amazing solutions to our company. Therefore, if someone is looking for reliability and accuracy in incident management, I will not hesitate to recommend PagerDuty. It is easy to use, and it will give you value for money.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • 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
    Incentivized
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    PagerDuty
    • PagerDuty sends the alerts set on high severity incidents on time and never misses any single instance.
    • PagerDuty help to send alert to mobile calls and Team channel for outage.
    • PagerDuty also resolves some of the high severity incidents as part of self healing mechanism.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • 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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Incentivized
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    They are fully available at all times via chat, phone, or email and follow up thoroughly.
    Incentivized
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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, escalations, and on-call duties in a more organized and dependable way, which fits better with how our teams work daily.
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • 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
    Incentivized
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    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
    Incentivized
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    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.