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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    PagerDuty

    Score8.6 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

    Splunk Enterprise

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ASplunk is software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface. It captures, indexes and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations.N/A
    Pricing
    PagerDutySplunk Enterprise
    Editions & Modules
    Professional
    $25
    per month per user
    Business
    $49
    per month per user
    Enterprise
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    Pricing Offerings
    PagerDutySplunk Enterprise
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    PagerDutySplunk Enterprise
    Considered Both Products
    PagerDuty
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    PagerDuty has a mobile app that we utilize for notifications to on-call agents rather than email notifications that we get from Splunk. Having the ability to not be focused on monitoring systems throughout computers and simply getting notified on our phones has helped …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    PagerDuty seemed to have a much more flexible setup that allowed the organization to build and manage how we respond to alerts and incidents. The ServiceNow product seemed to be a bit more rigid.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    PagerDuty does the alerting part flawlessly.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    All systems without automation options and alarm/incident escalation, however PagerDuty was made exclusively for this and consolidates the information.
    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
    BigPanda is not as easy to use as PagerDuty. The alerting in PagerDuty is clean and neat compared to BigPanda.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    We also use CloudWatch for certain apps, but since it's locked in to AWS and its UI is much inferior to PagerDuty's, we prefer to have everything go to PagerDuty. It's really the only solution worth considering that I've come across for monitoring and alerting for production …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    I think PagerDuty is a good product. I have used VictorOps before and found the interface to be too cumbersome and tedious to set up. They have a rich interface with many great integrations, but sometimes less is more, and I have found this to be the case with Pager Duty. They …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    I have not had the pleasure of using any other products beyond PagerDuty.
    Incentivized
    Cisco
    Chose Splunk Enterprise
    They do provide an overwhelming level of information, which is hard to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk Enterprise
    I wanted to learn a new language that I can quickly master and implement. Splunk is easy, fun to use and best of all, it can be developed in hours not days or weeks. Splunk is fundamentally a programming language that is minimal but yet powerful enough to collect, analyze and …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
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    97%
    Would buy again
    59 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    49 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    59 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    110 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    50 Answers
    Features
    PagerDutySplunk Enterprise
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of PagerDuty and Splunk Enterprise
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    PagerDuty
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    Ratings
    Splunk Enterprise
    8.2
    91 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings9.085 Ratings
    Correlation00 Ratings8.487 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings8.488 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility00 Ratings8.081 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings8.282 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings8.887 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings7.865 Ratings
    Data integration/API management00 Ratings8.334 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings7.732 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings7.933 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings7.529 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings8.634 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings8.737 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
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    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    PagerDutySplunk Enterprise
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (173 ratings)
    8.7
    (112 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    8.5
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    8.5
    (45 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (86 ratings)
    8.0
    (19 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PagerDutySplunk Enterprise
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Cisco
    I'm liking the newer products, and I'm looking forward to how they integrate with the overall product when they come together. Just log in and be able to query a large number of systems for similar issues or a unique one. That is a great fit for Splunk Enterprise, looking for a simple case or a simple String or something of that nature across multiple machines. It's a great fit for that to identify issues or particular software, whatever your scenario is, String, to find it across any particular server or group of servers, so that you can update or do a deployment or whatever it is you're looking to do.
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    Pros
    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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    Cisco
    • It is very useful in creating custom rules for analyzing system logs and display relevant information. The query language is very easy to learn.
    • We can create custom UI to visualize the output of our data. The interface is very flexible. It also allows the sharing of rules among users.
    • There is an open online community to help others. Stackoverflow also has a splunk community. These resources make it more convenient to learn.
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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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    Cisco
    • Splunk light limits number of users to 5. Wish there was a flexible license, where one could add more users.
    • Splunk light does not let you add > few realtime alerts. Wish there was a flexible license, where one could add as many realtime alerts as wanted.
    • Better insight into daily ingestion values
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    We are using Splunk extensively in our projects and we have recently upgraded to Splunk version 6.0 which is quite efficient and giving expected results. We keep track of updates and new features Splunk introduces periodically and try to introduce those features in our day to day activities for improvement in our reporting system and other tasks.
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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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    Cisco
    You can literally throw in a single word into Splunk and it will pull back all instances of that word across all of your logs for the time span you select (provided you have permission to see that data). We have several users who have taken a few of the free courses from Splunk that are able to pull data out of it everyday with little help at all.
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    Reliability and Availability
    PagerDuty
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    When properly setup and configured, Splunk is extremely reliable.
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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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    Cisco
    Splunk maintains a well resourced support system that has been consistent since we purchased the product. They help out in a timely manner and provide expert level information as needed. We typically open cases online and communicate when possible via e-mail and are able to resolve most issues with that method.
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    Online Training
    PagerDuty
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    The online course was simple clear and described the main capabilities of the solution. There is also an initial module that can be done for free so anyone can familiarize themselves with the functionality of this solution. On the other hand, however, there could be more free online courses. Maybe even with a certificate, this would broaden the group of people who are familiar with the platform while increasing familiarity with the solution itself.
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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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    Cisco
    Smooth without too many major issues.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
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    Cisco
    A lot of products have natively inside their own dashboards and or their own logging repositories. And each one is difficult to learn or they're too complex or they're not verbose in the sense that they're not easy to mine the data that you're looking for. So that could be anything from the native logging that you find in other Cisco products. It's easier to use Splunk to draw the data that you're looking for as opposed to going to the individual's products themselves to get the logs that you're looking for.
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    Scalability
    PagerDuty
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Splunk can scale in to the petabyte per day range which of course is awesome
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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
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    • Splunk has allowed developers to diagnose production issues when access of control was taken away from them to be allowed to view items in production environments and I believe that is invaluable.
    • At times some developers weren't super happy about using it, but it was more of the fact that they were used to having production access and not creating their splunk queries to get information.
    • Going one place to view logs was very beneficial to have.
    Incentivized
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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.