What is Pagerbot?
Pagerbot is a bot that makes managing PagerDuty on-call schedules easier. It currently supports IRC and slack, and can be easily deployed to heroku.
Pagerbot is a tool in the ChatOps category of a tech stack.
Pagerbot is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Pagerbot's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Pagerbot?
Pagerbot's Features
- Supports both Slack and IRC
- Built-in admin panel
- Simple plugin architecture
- Stripe has been using Pagerbot as their main interface to PagerDuty for over two years now
Pagerbot Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Pagerbot?
Hubot
Hubot is a chat bot, modeled after GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool. He's extendable with old community scripts, or new community org and your own custom scripts, and can work on many different chat services.
Lita
Lita is a chat bot written in Ruby with persistent storage provided by Redis. It uses a plugin system to connect to different chat services and to provide new behavior. The plugin system uses the familiar tools of the Ruby ecosystem: RubyGems and Bundler.
Errbot
The main use is to make it easy for you to write your own plugins so you can make it do whatever you want: a deployment, retrieving some information online, trigger a tool via an API.
HubCommander
HubCommander provides a chat-ops means for managing GitHub organizations. It creates a simple way to perform privileged GitHub organization management tasks without granting administrative or owner privileges to your GitHub organization members.
Abbot
It is a platform to build and run automation scripts from chat without a lot of hassle. It takes care of the annoying parts of getting up and running so you can focus on getting things done.
