Aye, passing the on-call baton to the next soul is not a challenge but a duty.
February 15, 2020

Aye, passing the on-call baton to the next soul is not a challenge but a duty.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with PagerDuty

PagerDuty is used by the Cloud Operations team for data operations, infrastructure operations, devops, engineering, and executive crisis management. It addresses the ability to raise awareness from the simplest of issues that exist in production to critical incidents requiring marshaling everyone to virtual war rooms. When outages or service impacts occur the ability to reach out without having to find contact information, calling ten to fifty people is key. Time wasted is time lost in resolving issues.
  • Cross platform out of band communication. SMS, voice, app/push notification.
  • Expansive ecosystem of extensions/integrations.
  • Pricing simplification.
  • Better dynamic updating of UI components.
  • Being aware that issues are being addressed when raised rather than pushed to the side.
  • A negative impact is the tendency of mobile devices being found in pieces.
I wish to say zero downtime has never occurred, but a delay in sent notifications has occurred in their growth. Being aware of these issues was a challenge but has gotten better in the past 24 months.
Our integrations into PagerDuty is the key to its success. Currently, we utilize SMTP, Splunk, Slack, LogicMonitor, Homegrown API, Bitbucket, Git, JIRA, Jenkins and, many more to keep aware of the success and failure states.
Customer data feeds are paramount in the timely flow of transactions in our platform. When a feed is no longer accepting messages the cascading impact could prevent a customer from getting their goods to port, or even worse, miss their container slot. We utilize the automated incident response to layer coverage on our platform to exceed our SLAs and keep our customers tasks flowing smoothly.
This is a new feature for us and we are excited at the prospects.
I have not contacted support in years since there has not been a need to go so, and that is a positive thing.

Do you think PagerDuty delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with PagerDuty's feature set?

Yes

Did PagerDuty live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of PagerDuty go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy PagerDuty again?

Yes

PagerDuty is well suited in the process to collect people via active reaching rather than passive notification. An example is an app push, then if there are no responses, SMS. If there is no response, a Voice Call to one or more numbers. Some teams rely on Slack/Teams to reach people in an emergency and that will result in more noise in the ever-challenging signal to noise loss.