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PagerDuty vs Spike.sh: What are the differences?
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; Spike.sh: World's simplest way to get alerts and handle incidents. It is the simplest un-complicated incident management platform for individuals to small and growing teams. It alerts you of your incidents via Phone call, SMS, Slack and Email before your customers do With unlimited alerts and integrations, it helps you bring clarity in incidents and decrease resolve time with complete transparency..
PagerDuty and Spike.sh can be categorized as "Monitoring Aggregation" tools.
Some of the features offered by PagerDuty are:
- 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 the other hand, Spike.sh provides the following key features:
- Unlimited alerts
- Unlimited integrations
- No BS pricing
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.
Disclosure I work at Splunk and VictorOps is a Splunk product. But I would suggest in addition to trying the others adding VO to your list. It's important to note that some of the tools are designed as Incident Response tools, others started as mass notification tools. For on-call stick to those designed for incident response.
I would say to use Squadcast, the configuration is easy, provides a lot of features such as war room, RCA tracking postmortem, RBAC and they are quick to add features on request as well, recently I asked for custom on call reminders and I am sure they will add it really soon.
Pros of PagerDuty
- Just works55
- Easy configuration23
- Awesome alerting hub14
- Fantastic Alert aggregation and on call management11
- User-customizable alerting modes9
- Awesome tool for alerting and monitoring. Love it4
- Most reliable out of the three and it isn't even close3
Pros of Spike.sh
- Unlimited alerts2
- Flat pricing2
- Easy to setup2
- Super on-call management2
- Clean UI1
- Just works1
- Easy to use1
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Cons of PagerDuty
- Expensive7
- Ugly UI3
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