Does what it's supposed to and well.
February 15, 2020

Does what it's supposed to and well.

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

Overall Satisfaction with PagerDuty

We use it to manage notifications for off-hours personnel when an incident arises. It automatically handles escalation if the primary contact does not respond. It was primarily used by operations but during our holiday office closure, we used to schedule and notify those on-call rotation personnel across the whole company.

Pros

  • Multi mode notification
  • Incident history retention

Cons

  • Test mode/dry run. Incident created but notifications not actually sent.
  • Dark mode?
  • Increase customer satisfaction for faster response times off hours.
  • Careful to monitor on call staff interruption frequency.
I never experienced any downtime. It just works. Set and forget.
I have played with Slack integration. However, Slack is not officially adopted as a corporate standard.
For on-call off-hours support, clients can email a dedicated address or call and leave a voicemail at a special number. Either one will trigger a PD incident. An on-call person will triage. If they can resolve, then the incident is done. If the incident is more complex, then an incident lead will be notified and the Crash team will be activated. The incident lead will drive the issue until resolution.
I have not employed this feature as our incident counts are pretty low.
We evaluated VictorOps but were completely satisfied with PD so we retained it even though VictorOps was less expensive at the time.
Never need it but I know it's there.

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

Critical downtime notification for support staff. Ability to include stakeholders in the notification chain. Sometimes you don't want the stakeholders to see everything. Slack integration is helpful because the stakeholder can passively read communication and status.

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