Bigpanda vs PagerDuty vs VictorOps

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Bigpanda

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PagerDuty

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VictorOps

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Advice on Bigpanda, PagerDuty, and VictorOps
Michael Aldridge
Systems Engineer at BetterHelp · | 4 upvotes · 77.3K views
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SquadcastSquadcast

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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Chris Riley
Software Architect at Fixate IO · | 3 upvotes · 34K views
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VictorOpsVictorOps

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.

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Piyush Shrivastava
FrontEndDev at Transfin · | 2 upvotes · 21.8K views
Recommends
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SquadcastSquadcast

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.

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Pros of Bigpanda
Pros of PagerDuty
Pros of VictorOps
  • 7
    User interface, easy setup, analytics, integrations
  • 6
    Consolidates many systems into one
  • 2
    Correlation engine
  • 1
    Quick setup
  • 55
    Just works
  • 23
    Easy configuration
  • 14
    Awesome alerting hub
  • 11
    Fantastic Alert aggregation and on call management
  • 9
    User-customizable alerting modes
  • 4
    Awesome tool for alerting and monitoring. Love it
  • 3
    Most reliable out of the three and it isn't even close
  • 7
    The transmogrifier is a game changer
  • 6
    Great Team, Great Product
  • 5
    Free tier
  • 3
    Much better than ANY of the alternatives. Todd is GREAT
  • 3
    Great tiered escalation management
  • 2
    Android app with Wear integration
  • 2
    On-call routing and the timeline is brilliant
  • 1
    Awesome Team always updating
  • 1
    Nice UI

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Cons of Bigpanda
Cons of PagerDuty
Cons of VictorOps
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    • 7
      Expensive
    • 3
      Ugly UI
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      What is Bigpanda?

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

      What is PagerDuty?

      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.

      What is 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.

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