Nestor vs Pagerbot

Overview

Pagerbot

Stacks2

Followers7

Votes0

Nestor

Stacks1

Followers8

Votes0

Nestor vs Pagerbot: What are the differences?

Nestor: Hosted Hubot for Slack. Supercharge your team with Bot Powers in Seconds; Pagerbot: Manage Pagerduty on-call schedules from within your internal chat channels. 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.

Nestor and Pagerbot can be primarily classified as "ChatOps" tools.

Some of the features offered by Nestor are:

Heroku: Manage your Heroku apps with Nestor.
Trello: Manage your Trello cards, boards and lists with Nestor.
Github: Look at issues, merge branches and get Github stats with Nestor.

On the other hand, Pagerbot provides the following key features:

Supports both Slack and IRC
Built-in admin panel
Simple plugin architecture

Pagerbot is an open source tool with 258 GitHub stars and 87 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Pagerbot's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

Pagerbot	Nestor
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.	Supercharge your team with Bot Powers in Seconds
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	Heroku: Manage your Heroku apps with Nestor.;Trello: Manage your Trello cards, boards and lists with Nestor.;Github: Look at issues, merge branches and get Github stats with Nestor.;Mixpanel: Get information about your customers and how your app is used with Nestor.;Envoy: Find out about who visited your office with Envoy & Nestor.
Statistics
Stacks 2	Stacks 1
Followers 7	Followers 8
Votes 0	Votes 0
Integrations
Slack Heroku PagerDuty	GitHub Mailchimp Campaign Monitor Mixpanel Papertrail Librato Trello Convox Heroku Slack

What are some alternatives to Pagerbot, Nestor?

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.

Securitybot

Securitybot is an open-source implementation of a distributed alerting chat bot, as described in Ryan Huber's blog post. Distributed alerting improves the monitoring efficiency of your security team and can help you catch security incidents faster and more efficiently.