xMatters is the way to go
May 27, 2019
xMatters is the way to go
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with xMatters
We have been using xMatters for about a year now. All of our on-call teams are setup and receive critical alerts. Our process flow is started with a ServiceNow Incident and then if it meets the critical alert status, xMatters takes it and alerts the proper parties. We don't have a bridge conference calling system other than Skype and sending out invites for them to join. Makes it kind of messy, with xMatters we are able to send an alert out to their mobile device for the appropriate parties to join. I'm hopeful we can use this in our restaurants for refrigeration systems if there is a power outage or hardware failure. Along with their weather monitoring system for when storms come. I recommend this product for anyone looking for a monitoring system. It has been a great improvement from our other vendor we used to have.
- API calls, we can create an API ourselves to integrate with other applications. This allows more teams to be notified of a critical alert instead of waiting for someone to call them when a problem is reported.
- The on-call schedule where you might need to have a replacement is fairly simple. You can easily change with someone else and still keep the rest of the schedule in place. It also sends an email to the person you are trading with so they know when they are on-call.
- Their support team is really helpful and quick to respond when you open a ticket. There hasn't been an issue that hasn't been resolved in less than a day. They stay really on-top of things.
- I wish we could create custom groups without having to open a ticket and have them create it for us. I needed team leads to have the ability to change the scheduling of their own on-call teams. If I granted them a specific group xMatters has built in, it would give them access to change everyone's schedule.
- Quicker response times for on-call personnel.
- Managers are able to pull reports faster for any incidents escalated to their team.
- When needing to contact another on-call associate from another team, xMatters provides conference bridge lines. You don't have to set up meetings through Outlook or Skype.
I pushed for xMatters over PagerDuty for a couple things. Their sales team showed me everything I needed to hear from how simple their integration would be to our ServiceNow instance. The process flows of what we could do compared to what we have made a world of difference. We had a list of wants we came up with and xMatters delivered on all of them. The use of their app is very user friendly. Of course the cost played a big factor as well. With PagerDuty we basically had the bare minimum so we were limited with what we could do without having to pay more. xMatters was almost half the cost of what we were paying and we got back more in return. Personally, I felt more wanted by xMatters, even by having them a year the account managers check in with us almost bi-weekly. I did not get the same comfort from PagerDuty until we tried cancelling our service with them.