What is PagerDuty and what are its top alternatives?
Top Alternatives to PagerDuty
- LightStep
It diagnoses anomalies and slowdowns, spanning mobile, monoliths, and micro services: best-in-class observability, at scale, for modern applications. ...
- OpsGenie
OpsGenie is a cloud-based service for dev & ops teams, providing reliable alerts, on-call schedule management, and escalations. OpsGenie integrates with monitoring tools & services and ensures that the right people are at the right time. ...
- VictorOps
VictorOps is a real-time incident management platform that combines the power of people and data to embolden DevOps teams so they can handle incidents as they occur and prepare for the next one. ...
- New Relic
The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too. ...
- Bigpanda
Bigpanda helps you manage and respond to ops incidents faster. All your alerts: organized, assignable, trackable, snoozeable, and updated in real-time. ...
- Datadog
Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog! ...
- Splunk
It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data. ...
- Healthchecks.io
Healthchecks.io is a monitoring service for your cron jobs, background services and scheduled tasks. It works by listening for HTTP "pings" from your services. You can set up various alert methods: email, Slack, Telegram, PagerDuty, etc. ...
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LightStep
- Powerful UI3
- Easy setup3
- Observability End-to-End3
- Great Value3
- Fast RCA3
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- Two-way slack integration8
- Strong API4
- Solid scheduling and team management support4
- Two-way nagios integration3
- Strong, easy, fast, fits3
- Free tier2
- Complete Incident Response Orchestration Platform2
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- The transmogrifier is a game changer7
- Great Team, Great Product6
- Free tier5
- Much better than ANY of the alternatives. Todd is GREAT3
- Great tiered escalation management3
- Android app with Wear integration2
- On-call routing and the timeline is brilliant2
- Awesome Team always updating1
- Nice UI1
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New Relic
- Easy setup415
- Really powerful344
- Awesome visualization244
- Ease of use194
- Great ui151
- Free tier107
- Great tool for insights80
- Heroku Integration66
- Market leader55
- Peace of mind49
- Push notifications21
- Email notifications20
- Heroku Add-on17
- Error Detection and Alerting16
- Multiple language support13
- SQL Analysis11
- Server Resources Monitoring11
- Transaction Tracing9
- Apdex Scores8
- Azure Add-on8
- Analysis of CPU, Disk, Memory, and Network7
- Performance of External Services6
- Error Analysis6
- Detailed reports6
- Application Response Times6
- Application Availability Monitoring and Alerting6
- JVM Performance Analyzer (Java)5
- Most Time Consuming Transactions5
- Easy to use4
- Browser Transaction Tracing4
- Top Database Operations4
- Pagoda Box integration3
- Custom Dashboards3
- Weekly Performance Email3
- Application Map3
- Background Jobs Transaction Analysis2
- App Speed Index2
- Easy visibility2
- Easy to setup2
- Free1
- Rails integration1
- Super Expensive1
- Metric Data Resolution1
- Metric Data Retention1
- Team Collaboration Tools1
- Best of the best, what more can you ask for1
- Best monitoring on the market1
- Real User Monitoring Overview1
- Real User Monitoring Analysis and Breakdown1
- Time Comparisons1
- Access to Performance Data API1
- Worst Transactions by User Dissatisfaction1
- Incident Detection and Alerting1
- Exceptions0
- Pricing model doesn't suit microservices20
- UI isn't great10
- Expensive7
- Visualizations aren't very helpful7
- Hard to understand why things in your app are breaking5
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Hey there! We are looking at Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic as options for our web application monitoring.
Current Environment: .NET Core Web app hosted on Microsoft IIS
Future Environment: Web app will be hosted on Microsoft Azure
Tech Stacks: IIS, RabbitMQ, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server
Requirement: Infra Monitoring, APM, Real - User Monitoring (User activity monitoring i.e., time spent on a page, most active page, etc.), Service Tracing, Root Cause Analysis, and Centralized Log Management.
Please advise on the above. Thanks!
Regarding Continuous Integration - we've started with something very easy to set up - CircleCI , but with time we're adding more & more complex pipelines - we use Jenkins to configure & run those. It's much more effort, but at some point we had to pay for the flexibility we expected. Our source code version control is Git (which probably doesn't require a rationale these days) and we keep repos in GitHub - since the very beginning & we never considered moving out. Our primary monitoring these days is in New Relic (Ruby & SPA apps) and AppSignal (Elixir apps) - we're considering unifying it in New Relic , but this will require some improvements in Elixir app observability. For error reporting we use Sentry (a very popular choice in this class) & we collect our distributed logs using Logentries (to avoid semi-manual handling here).
- User interface, easy setup, analytics, integrations7
- Consolidates many systems into one6
- Correlation engine2
- Quick setup1
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Datadog
- Monitoring for many apps (databases, web servers, etc)135
- Easy setup106
- Powerful ui86
- Powerful integrations82
- Great value69
- Great visualization53
- Events + metrics = clarity45
- Custom metrics40
- Notifications40
- Flexibility38
- Free & paid plans18
- Great customer support15
- Makes my life easier14
- Adapts automatically as i scale up9
- Easy setup and plugins8
- Super easy and powerful7
- AWS support6
- In-context collaboration6
- Rich in features5
- Docker support4
- Cost4
- Automation tools3
- Source control and bug tracking3
- Simple, powerful, great for infra3
- Cute logo3
- Expensive3
- Easy to Analyze3
- Full visibility of applications3
- Monitor almost everything3
- Best than others3
- Good for Startups2
- Free setup2
- Best in the field2
- APM1
- Expensive18
- No errors exception tracking4
- External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging2
- Complicated1
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Our primary source of monitoring and alerting is Datadog. We’ve got prebuilt dashboards for every scenario and integration with PagerDuty to manage routing any alerts. We’ve definitely scaled past the point where managing dashboards is easy, but we haven’t had time to invest in using features like Anomaly Detection. We’ve started using Honeycomb for some targeted debugging of complex production issues and we are liking what we’ve seen. We capture any unhandled exceptions with Rollbar and, if we realize one will keep happening, we quickly convert the metrics to point back to Datadog, to keep Rollbar as clean as possible.
We use Segment to consolidate all of our trackers, the most important of which goes to Amplitude to analyze user patterns. However, if we need a more consolidated view, we push all of our data to our own data warehouse running PostgreSQL; this is available for analytics and dashboard creation through Looker.









We are looking for a centralised monitoring solution for our application deployed on Amazon EKS. We would like to monitor using metrics from Kubernetes, AWS services (NeptuneDB, AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, etc) and application microservice's custom metrics.
We are expected to use around 80 microservices (not replicas). I think a total of 200-250 microservices will be there in the system with 10-12 slave nodes.
We tried Prometheus but it looks like maintenance is a big issue. We need to manage scaling, maintaining the storage, and dealing with multiple exporters and Grafana. I felt this itself needs few dedicated resources (at least 2-3 people) to manage. Not sure if I am thinking in the correct direction. Please confirm.
You mentioned Datadog and Sysdig charges per host. Does it charge per slave node?
- Ability to style search results into reports2
- Alert system based on custom query results2
- API for searching logs, running reports2
- Query engine supports joining, aggregation, stats, etc2
- Query any log as key-value pairs1
- Splunk language supports string, date manip, math, etc1
- Granular scheduling and time window support1
- Custom log parsing as well as automatic parsing1
- Dashboarding on any log contents1
- Rich GUI for searching live logs1
- Splunk query language rich so lots to learn1
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I use Kibana because it ships with the ELK stack. I don't find it as powerful as Splunk however it is light years above grepping through log files. We previously used Grafana but found it to be annoying to maintain a separate tool outside of the ELK stack. We were able to get everything we needed from Kibana.
We are currently exploring Elasticsearch and Splunk for our centralized logging solution. I need some feedback about these two tools. We expect our logs in the range of upwards > of 10TB of logging data.
- Can be self-hosted3
- Great value2
- Free tier2
- Easy to understand2