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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    PagerDuty

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/APagerDuty is an IT alert and incident management application from the company of the same name in San Francisco.

    $25

    per month per user

    Rootly

    N/AN/AA solution to automate incident response on Slack, that lets users handoff alerts from PagerDuty and automatically create incidents without ever leaving Slack. Its relevant runbooks and metadata (deploy events) shortcut resolution times.N/A
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    PagerDutyRootly
    Editions & Modules
    Professional
    $25
    per month per user
    Business
    $49
    per month per user
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    Pricing Offerings
    PagerDutyRootly
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
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    Happy with the feature set
    95%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
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    User Ratings
    PagerDutyRootly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (141 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
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    Usability
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.0
    (85 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    PagerDutyRootly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Rootly
    Rootly is great for both remote companies and in-person, but especially well suited for remote. There is such a wide variety of functionalities that Rootly can offer, both internally for your company and externally for your customers. Rootly streamlines and centralizes a lot of data you may be keeping in separate spaces which could be excluding some memebers from being in the loop and adds additional time in your day tracking and organization information. Rootly makes everything real-time for our company through the integrations
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    Pros
    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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    Rootly
    • clear tracking
    • step management, for where we are at in the process of resolving the issues (whose hands it is currently in to deal with the problem)
    • centralized clear and easy communication to our organization
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    Cons
    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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    Rootly
    • while the interface provides great information and everything that you need, there can be a learning curve to understand what you are looking at
    • having all notifications on for slack/teams can cause lots of notifications in a larger organization
    • like any technology, there is room for error with feature issues or integrations issues
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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
    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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    Rootly
    great usability, bit of a learning curve with the product because there is so much information to digest and Rootly gives you lots of different angles and preferences for how you would like to see it displayed. For those with high tech skills its much easier but for those who are less tech savvy it can be overwhelming
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    Support Rating
    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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    Rootly
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Rootly
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Rootly
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Rootly
    • streamlined communication for our entire business, one stop shop for incidents and their updates
    • Improved collaboration and engagement from our org
    • faster response times and more accurate reporting
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    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.