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OpsGenie

Score7.8 out of 10

54 Reviews and Ratings

What is OpsGenie?

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.

Categories & Use Cases

OpsGenie - Fast and accurate incident response management.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

OpsGenie is the backbone of a significant incident response program, and each year, it has gone from strength to strength, integrating well with existing systems across the business and bringing together communications into a single pane of glass that tracks outages, issues, and events in real-time, providing a solid audit trail along the way. Incidents are fast-paced, and stopping to organize notes and conversations is time-consuming, slowing the response, creating further risk, and prolonging mitigations. Escalations are key in a crisis, and OpsGenie handles this efficiently, managing the right contacts and bringing people into the conversation as required.

Pros

  • Integrations with existing tools.
  • Fast management of incidents.
  • Audit trails and evidence all in one place.

Cons

  • Scheduling can be a little confusing at times.
  • Colour-coding for each user could be customised.

Return on Investment

  • 40% reduction in Mean Time To Resolution.
  • Reduced accidental calls to people on annual leave during an incident.
  • 50% less time spent on aggregating information for reports.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Splunk On-Call and PagerDuty

OpsGenie live inside lamps and making magic with the alert management process

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We actually use OpsGenie as a tool for getting alerts of our observability systems in case of break a certain threshold. It's the starting point of our incidence management process and allow us to keep notified about alerts, manage on-calls and schedule the off hour efforts all the whole team. As well as this, it help us after the incident to understand the process health through the analytics mode.

Pros

  • On call management
  • On call notifications
  • Integration with other third parties tools
  • Notification settings
  • Scalation configuration

Cons

  • Team management
  • Analytics module
  • Provide an API first model to get all entities information

Return on Investment

  • Reduce MTTR
  • Keep the whole team organizes with oncalls
  • Reduce Downtime

Usability

Other Software Used

Datadog, New Relic, Grafana

Great escalation Tool

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use OpsGenie to help technicians to never miss an important service ticket. Integrating with our CRM and ticketing system allows us to create rules that notify us if an issues is not taken care of in a timely manner. This has been a game changer for us. I would recommend this product to everyone.

Pros

  • Notify our techs in a timely fashion
  • integrate with our CRM

Cons

  • Make setting up rules easier

Return on Investment

  • allow us to be attentive to our customers needs in a timely fashion.

Alternatives Considered

OnPage

Other Software Used

ConnectWise PSA, ConnectWise RMM, BrightGauge

OpsGenie a great alert mechanism tool

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used OpsGenie software in our Oncall rotation for overall Production support of IT Business Intelligence activities which included data-warehousing and reporting support. OpsGenie would send alerts whenever there was a Production issue to the person in shift for support

Pros

  • Send alerts to specific individuals that are in On Call support
  • Setup a resource rotation that can handle exceptions
  • Give you multiple options of delivery for the alerts
  • Single Sign-on

Cons

  • Better and quicker access to review some of the settings related to the app and to the usage

Return on Investment

  • I only heard that it was part of a package, and the pricing was good for the company

Alternatives Considered

Resolver and Jira Service Management

Other Software Used

Jira Service Management, Resolver

Easy to use for paging

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using to notify the on-call user and team through the alerts and incidents. On-call users generally from engineering team through raising opsgenie alert we notify them there are high priority alerts and need your assistance so they can fixed it before the outage. The features of timeline is very useful from there you can see the alerts who has acknowledged who has ignore. Second feature is description box where you can describe the problem and also notify them engineer.

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • Sometime it well take 2 3 minutes to notify engineers while paging so that time reduce scope is there.

Most Important Features

  • Alerts notification
  • Incident notification
  • Who is on call checked
  • Activity log

Return on Investment

  • Positives are many but the most we have generally use this tools for paging the engineers for their application alerts so they can have look onit quickly.
  • By using description box we have brief them our finding related to alerts as well as we can sent them a bridge link
  • Sometime we use to check from which team who is available now on call to fixed their application issue.
  • Negative thing I observed sometime it took 2 3 minutes to sent notification don't know why .

Alternatives Considered

PagerDuty

Other Software Used

Nagios XI, AlertSite, Zabbix, Datadog, PowerConnect for Splunk, Docker