What is PagerDuty?
PagerDuty is an alarm aggregation and dispatching service for system administrators and support teams. It collects alerts from your monitoring tools, gives you an overall view of all of your monitoring alarms, and alerts an on duty engineer if there's a problem.
PagerDuty is a tool in the Monitoring Aggregation category of a tech stack.
Who Uses PagerDuty?
294 companies use PagerDuty including Square, HotelTonight, and Intuit.
PagerDuty integrates with
Slack, Postman, Jira, New Relic, and Ansible are some of the popular tools that integrate with PagerDuty. Here's a list of all 103 tools that integrate with PagerDuty.
Why people like PagerDuty
Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use PagerDuty.
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Here are some stack decisions and reviews by companies and developers who chose PagerDuty in their tech stack.
PagerDuty's Features
- Alerting that works (and wakes you up)- When your systems go down, PagerDuty will wake you up. You choose how you want to be alerted - via phone, SMS or email, to multiple numbers, with retries.
- Integrate all your existing monitoring tools- PagerDuty works great with almost all monitoring tools including: Nagios (and Icinga), Keynote, New Relic, Pingdom, Circonus, Red Gate SQL Monitor, Server Density, Zenoss, Monit, Munin, SolarWinds and many others. If it can send email, it will work with PagerDuty.
- Native apps with push notifications- iOS and Android native apps with push notifications and a cross-platform mobile website ensure you can respond to alerts wherever you are, even on the go.
- On-call duty scheduling- Easily set up schedules to fairly share on-call duty responsibilities with your team.
- Automatic escalation of alerts- If you're paged but don't respond in time, the alert is auto-escalated to a team member. Ensures nothing slips through the cracks - ever.
- Reliable, distributed architecture- PagerDuty's infrastructure is fully replicated in multiple data centers, with fast failover when problems occur.
- Works internationally (Yes, really!)- Phone alerts can be delivered to over 170 countries and territories
- SMS alerts are available virtually world-wide. (Is my country included?)
PagerDuty's alternatives
- OpsGenie - Alerting and On-Call Management for Dev&Ops Teams
- VictorOps - We make on-call suck less & help teams to solve problems faster.
- New Relic - SaaS Application Performance Management for Ruby, PHP, .Net, Java, Python, and Node.js Apps.
- Datadog - Unify logs, metrics, and traces from across your distributed infrastructure.
- Bigpanda - The cure for alert fatigue
