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  5. Cachet vs PagerDuty

Cachet vs PagerDuty

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Overview

PagerDuty
PagerDuty
Stacks1.0K
Followers703
Votes119
Cachet
Cachet
Stacks79
Followers129
Votes48
GitHub Stars14.7K
Forks1.6K

Cachet vs PagerDuty: What are the differences?

Cachet: A beautiful and simple open source status page system. Cachet is an open source status page system written in PHP, using the Laravel framework; PagerDuty: Incident management with powerful visibility, reliable alerting, and improved collaboration. 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.

Cachet belongs to "Status Page Hosting" category of the tech stack, while PagerDuty can be primarily classified under "Monitoring Aggregation".

Some of the features offered by Cachet are:

  • Log incidents
  • Apply a custom stylesheet to the status page
  • Markdown support for incident messages

On the other hand, PagerDuty provides the following key 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.

"Open Source" is the top reason why over 13 developers like Cachet, while over 51 developers mention "Just works" as the leading cause for choosing PagerDuty.

Cachet is an open source tool with 9.97K GitHub stars and 1.16K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Cachet's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, PagerDuty has a broader approval, being mentioned in 303 company stacks & 47 developers stacks; compared to Cachet, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Advice on PagerDuty, Cachet

Michael
Michael

Systems Engineer at BetterHelp

Apr 8, 2020

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I'm currently on PagerDuty, but I'm about to add enough users to go out of the starter tier, which will dramatically increase my license cost. PagerDuty is, in my experience, quite clunky, and I'm looking for alternatives. Squadcast is one I've found, and another is xMatters. Between the three, I'm currently leaning towards xMatters, but I'd like to know what people suggest.

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Detailed Comparison

PagerDuty
PagerDuty
Cachet
Cachet

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.

Cachet is an open source status page system written in PHP, using the Laravel framework.

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?)
Log incidents;Apply a custom stylesheet to the status page;Markdown support for incident messages;RESTful API;Translated into several languages;Easy Heroku deployment;Metrics;Cross-database support: MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite
Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
14.7K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
1.6K
Stacks
1.0K
Stacks
79
Followers
703
Followers
129
Votes
119
Votes
48
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 55
    Just works
  • 23
    Easy configuration
  • 14
    Awesome alerting hub
  • 11
    Fantastic Alert aggregation and on call management
  • 9
    User-customizable alerting modes
Cons
  • 7
    Expensive
  • 3
    Ugly UI
Pros
  • 18
    Open Source
  • 7
    RESTful API
  • 7
    Looks beautiful
  • 5
    Free to use
  • 5
    Scheduled maintenance
Integrations
Scout
Scout
Nagios
Nagios
New Relic
New Relic
HipChat
HipChat
Datadog
Datadog
Logentries
Logentries
Sensu
Sensu
Logstash
Logstash
Jira
Jira
Okta
Okta
No integrations available

What are some alternatives to PagerDuty, Cachet?

StatusPage.io

StatusPage.io

The #1 status and incident communication tool. Use Statuspage to build trust with every incident.

VictorOps

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.

OpsGenie

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.

Zenduty

Zenduty

End to end incident management platform for SRE, DevOps, Network Operations, Infrastructure and Security Operations teams

Bigpanda

Bigpanda

Bigpanda helps you manage and respond to ops incidents faster. All your alerts: organized, assignable, trackable, snoozeable, and updated in real-time.

Status.io

Status.io

Our simple, yet feature packed, status pages provide the ultimate truth-of-source for your system's current status. Skip building a homegrown solution and keep focused on your passion. Our platform will save you tons of time.

Spike.sh

Spike.sh

Spike.sh is an incident response platform built for modern teams. Spike.sh integrates with your monitoring tools and alerts on phone call, SMS, Slack, MS Teams, Whatsapp, and Telegram.

StatusEntry

StatusEntry

Effective communication by sharing your current status with both your in-house employees and your audience through both hosted status page and various integrated channels of StatusEntry.

Healthchecks.io

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.

Statusfy

Statusfy

Statusfy is a Status Page System, easy to use and completely Open Source. You can easily create a fast Static Generated System and easily deploy it to a variety of hosting services.

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