PagerDuty vs VictorOps: What are the differences?
Developers describe PagerDuty as "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. On the other hand, VictorOps is detailed as "We make on-call suck less & help teams to solve problems faster". 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.
PagerDuty and VictorOps belong to "Monitoring Aggregation" category of the tech stack.
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, VictorOps provides the following key features:
- On-call schedule management - easily set up rotations, teams & escalation policies
- Collaborative problem-solving - get the right eyes on the problem quickly
- Post-mortem reporting
"Just works" is the primary reason why developers consider PagerDuty over the competitors, whereas "Great Team, Great Product" was stated as the key factor in picking VictorOps.
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PagerDutyPagerduty integrates with pretty much everything, and for the ones it doesn't its easy to get it done!
PagerDutywhistles If there's something weird, in your infrastructure, who you gonna call?
DevOps-Buste.. You get the idea. PagerDuty is great for quickly notifying us when things go pearshaped.
PagerDutyLuckily we don't end up actually using this much, but we couldn't live without it.
PagerDutyalerts me to any issues and blends well with other tools for uptime monitoring
VictorOpsAlerts escalation, integrated with Pingdom and Hipchat
PagerDutyNotification aggregation and escalation.
PagerDutyWe use it in Netflix.