IBM Event Automation vs. PagerDuty

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Event Automation
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
IBM Event Automation enables businesses to accelerate their event-driven efforts. The event streams, event endpoint management and event processing capabilities help lay the foundation of an event-driven architecture for unlocking the value of events.N/A
PagerDuty
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
PagerDuty is an IT alert and incident management application from the company of the same name in San Francisco.
$25
per month per user
Pricing
IBM Event AutomationPagerDuty
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Professional
$25
per month per user
Business
$49
per month per user
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Event AutomationPagerDuty
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
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User Ratings
IBM Event AutomationPagerDuty
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(141 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(85 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Event AutomationPagerDuty
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
IBM Event Streams is well suited for companies developing event driven Microservices. One of the biggest challenger with microservices is that your data gets distributed into little silos - event streaming (or better known as event sourcing) allows you to get a central source of truth in your event store. We are taking this approach with IBM Event Streams and it is well suited for building an event streaming / sourcing architecture.
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PagerDuty
I think PagerDuty works great for medical practices. I have used other platforms through other companies, and PagerDuty is by far the best platform. It is because of the different features it has to communicate to other staff members how the call is being handled. It is easy to learn how to use.
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Pros
IBM
  • It is adaptive and helps us create more engaging experiences on our platforms.
  • The Key metrics dashboard is rich with insights.
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PagerDuty
  • Alerting notifications is its best attribute; it will continue to make contact until the alert is acknowledged by a user.
  • The calendar view provides valuable information regarding who is on call by the team and their full contact information.
  • The application also lets you initiate a tech bridge meeting instantly and notifies all on-call users.
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Cons
IBM
  • Provide Capabilities to connect the Event Streams via REST Proxy.
  • Schema Registry to handle Avro Formats.
  • Provide Kafka Connect Sink & Source Connectors.
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PagerDuty
  • When getting a phone call, PagerDuty doesn't seem to allow acknowledgments of alerts through the phone, which it says it does. I constantly receive a message that it was updated by another person - when in reality, it wasn't.
  • Smarter notifications. If an alert was snoozed for a time, when it comes back, it sends out another alert. It should, I think, send a message asking if the alert is still an issue and give the option to close.
  • Make schedule changes more intuitive.
  • One button to acknowledge and close an alert.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
No answers on this topic
PagerDuty
They have been rock solid for us thus far and are not very expensive and to be honest no time to evaluate other software at this point.
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Usability
IBM
The product was very user friendly and extremely easy to get started with. The documentation is excellent and the free tier makes it very easy to get started with without having to make deep or long term financial commitments.
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PagerDuty
The UI is more complex than I would like. Part of the challenge is that most users use PagerDuty infrequently; I don't remember how I changed a policy last time. Another part of the challenge is that some users expect alerting to be a trivial feature, and are reluctant to invest any time in reading the documentation.
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Support Rating
IBM
I met with the support team and they have deep technical and development understanding of the needs and the problems which IBM Event Streams addresses. If you are looking for a product backed by a highly technical support team then IBM Event Streams is probably the best choice. I was specifically impressed by the level of technical understanding my support team demonstrated.
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PagerDuty
PagerDuty is reliable and easy to set up. It gives an effective way to notify the team about critical incidents which results in a faster turnaround time on issues. users can customize their alerts rules based on their preferences. Overall it's effective and easy to use which adds great business value.
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Implementation Rating
IBM
No answers on this topic
PagerDuty
When I setup notifications to PD thru the Python API I was impressed with the ease with which I could set up the software/service.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
In Event Streams, applications send data by creating a message and sending it to a topic. To receive messages, applications subscribe to a topic. High availability and reliability. Event Streams offers a highly available and reliable Apache Kafka service running on IBM Cloud. Event Streams. Event Streams stores three replicas of your data to ensure the highest level of resilience across three availability zones.
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PagerDuty
I have not use the 2 technologies for as long as I have used PagerDuty but in my opinion PagerDuty makes things a lot easier. The other tools got the job done and got alerts out but PagerDuty just seemed to make the setup for on-call alert schedules and integrations easier than the others. This isn't to say the others are difficult, just that PagerDuty was slightly better. I also have noticed that more tools have options to integrate to PagerDuty over the other tools.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • In using downstreams, the minimal features and the rate of releases were slow, makes us feel that there's no upgrades and other than that there's poor marketing of the product.
  • The adoption around the service is low, requires focused marketing.
  • Lack of visibility into topic depth , Monitoring capabilities
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PagerDuty
  • Allow our service to be available 24/7 with minimal downtime, improving customer experience
  • Monitor incidents and allow us to customize/schedule alert notifications, making engineers' jobs easier and preventing turnover
  • Prevent SEVs that could deteriorate, bring down our service, and cost us millions of dollars from loss in bookings
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ScreenShots

PagerDuty Screenshots

Screenshot of Similar Incidents [Apple iPad], Open Incidents [iPhone 8], On-Call Schedule Menu [Apple Watch])Screenshot of the Machine Learning with Technical Service Dependencies, used to better understand related incidents.Screenshot of a glimpse of service health and team performance via PagerDuty’s Intelligent Dashboards.