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    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

    Splunk On-Call

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AFormerly known as VictorOps, Splunk On-Call is an incident response system for developers, devops and operations teams that helps reduce outage time.N/A
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    PagerDutySplunk On-Call
    Editions & Modules
    Professional
    $25
    per month per user
    Business
    $49
    per month per user
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    PagerDutySplunk On-Call
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    PagerDutySplunk On-Call
    Considered Both Products
    PagerDuty
    Chose PagerDuty
    I worked at one company that used VictorOps (now Splunk On-Call) and it was quite similar to PagerDuty. VictorOps had a smaller customer base and fewer integrations, so there was less information on the Internet about how to use it effectively, and I don't think its API was as …
    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
    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
    VictorOps was ok. PagerDuty allowed more flexibility in scheduling from what I recall. I wasn't involved with the decision making but in our testing VictorOps wasn't as comfortable to use as PagerDuty.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    We evaluated VictorOps but were completely satisfied with PD so we retained it even though VictorOps was less expensive at the time.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    VictorOps is similar to PagerDuty, but was much more difficult to setup and get working with the Nagios system I was supporting. I also did not like the mobile app for VictorOps, it was too convoluted and hard to figure out what alert was being sent to the on-call person. I …
    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
    Its overall better than every other tool coz it combines alerts automation analytics and ecosystem support.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    Reporting and analytics are not well comparing to PagerDuty
    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
    Compared to the companies listed above, PagerDuty was always the stronger contender combined with Datadog. Though now the playing field may have changed since we last did any serious evaluation. PagerDuty has no downtime and "just works". That last phrase is what makes it …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    PagerDuty is very easy to use, and the integrations it offers makes it easy to place into our overall workflow. The pricing is competitive.
    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
    Cisco
    Chose Splunk On-Call
    We really liked PagerDuty but it got too expensive for us. In my opinion, PagerDuty has a nicer UI/UX and iPhone app as it's done well and has some fun associated with it. However, the pricing model became too expensive for the features we needed. VictorOps is one of several …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk On-Call
    Both VictorOps and PagerDuty do a great job at hands-off alerting people of all their systems neeeds. If used properly it allows everyone, devs, ops, and managers to see into the status of the systems and see what systems and processes need to be improved based upon the types …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk On-Call
    Better integration with other Splunk products
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    158 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    134 Answers
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    153 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    110 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    User Ratings
    PagerDutySplunk On-Call
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (173 ratings)
    6.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (86 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PagerDutySplunk On-Call
    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 recommend Splunk on-call is more suited where there are high incident queues; multiple teams need to be involved in handling a P1 severity issue. Multiple levels of escalation are needed environment where automated action is required. I recommend the solution for large-scale & medium-scale business units. For small-scale business units, I see the functional value is less.
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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.
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    Cisco
    • Easily assign work/tickets between multiple users
    • Supports a wide variety of software integrations
    • Easy to manage scheduling tool
    • As part of the Splunk toolset, provides detailed levels of data analysis at our engineers fingertips
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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
    • The user interface can be furthe improved
    • Licensing needs to be simplified and packaged as a bundle with other Splunk product like Enterprise Security
    • Customer outreach can be further enhanced
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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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    Cisco
    It was a good solution with a good comprimise prize/features for our use cases
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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
    Not a lot of love given to VO since the acquisition by Splunk from my POV
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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
    VictorOps support has proven excellent for us. Because it is such a widely used tool, there is a lot of documentation on usage, and a large community of users to lean on. Also, many engineers have had experience working with VictorOps already, and the tool is so easy to setup / manage that much support isn't really necessary.
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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
    It was a good solution with a good comprimise prize/features for our use cases
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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
    Splunk On-Call integrates better with our Splunk Cybersecurity and Reporting products due to the same family tree of the same eco system. We were previously using built-in on-call from individual applications and while adequate, they were difficult to manage and support SLA varied greatly across different applications. In addition we also used xMatters which did not integrate well with SAP products nor Citrix products so we were still using more than a single on-call product which was solved by implementing Splunk On-Call
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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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    Cisco
    • It runs our on call rotation so it makes it easy for us.
    • It integrates with Slack so it makes it easy for us to manage through Slack.
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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.