PagerDuty is an IT alert and incident management application from the company of the same name in San Francisco.
$25
per month per user
xMatters
Score8.6 out of 10
N/A
xMatters is an IT alert management solution for enterprises. It is cloud-based incident management software that enables business processes or applications to trigger two-way communications (text, voice, email, SMS, etc.) during time-sensitive events.
Sr. Network Engineer in Information Technology at Wex Health, Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose PagerDuty
PagerDuty is very similar to xMatters, with only slight differences. The integration with network monitoring tools and the ticketing system is more involved. Instead of simply forwarding an alert from the monitoring tool to the paging service, xMatters requires the creation of …
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Verified User
Chose PagerDuty
PagerDuty provides better cost to value, and also includes AI based recommendations. Overall automatons possibilities are also great with this and since we have multiple integrations as well as we cannot easily to existing systems. For us the responsive and helpful sales team …
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Verified User
Chose PagerDuty
I only have experience with the old-style pagers from the late 90s. Of course, PD is light years better than those!!!
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Verified User
Chose PagerDuty
After evaluation of the other two products on the market, we opted for PagerDuty, for its reliability, flexibility, and functionality.
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Verified User
Chose PagerDuty
PagerDuty has far more integrations and a much user friendly interface.
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Verified User
Chose PagerDuty
Through our evaluation, we selected PagerDuty, mainly because of its user interface and the ability for support managers to configure it without additional support.
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Senior Director, Technology - Enterprise Operations Center in Information Technology at Cox Automotive (Automotive, 10,001+ employees)
Chose xMatters
xMatters is a market leader among many new burgeoning products in the stakeholder notification space. They are historically one of two original enterprise products in this space. Great client base of large companies and good reputation. xMatters offers flexible licensing …
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PagerDuty and xMatters are both IT alert and incident response management tools. Like many alert management products, they both provide on-call scheduling and resource management.
PagerDuty and xMatters cater to distinct market segments and needs. PagerDuty is used primarily by midsize businesses and enterprises, with a focus on alert aggregation and prioritization. In contrast, xMatters is more focused specifically on enterprises with a need for heavy business process automation and custom-build integrations.
Features
PagerDuty and xMatters each have a range of advantages to each tool worth evaluating.
PagerDuty excels at helping organizations manage alert and escalation policies. Reviewers highlight PagerDuty’s flexible escalation rules across communication channels. This flexibility allows organizations to ensure alerts are addressed without overwhelming IT staff. PagerDuty’s customer support is also highly praised by users.
xMatters provides tools designed to meet enterprises’ unique needs around incident alerts and responses. For instance, it facilitates excellent stakeholder communication in order to keep all parties in the loop as an incident is identified and addressed. This visibility is both more challenging and more crucial to maintain in an enterprise environment. It also has the capacity for in-house customization and integration via open APIs, which enterprises are better able to take advantage of.
Limitations
There are also some drawbacks to each platform worth considering.
PagerDuty’s mobile application is not on par with its desktop application. It has comparatively little mobile customization, and the administrative functionalities are much more limited than expected.
On the other hand, xMatters is more limited in its alert escalation. Specifically, its group customization is less mature, which makes the platform more challenging to adapt to enterprises’s individual escalation processes. This can lead to overcommunication via mass notifications, which is a less ideal user experience.
Pricing
PagerDuty offers 5 different plans, each tier adding functionalities on the lower-tier plan:
The Free plan provides on-call scheduling, unlimited API calls, and always-up service for up to 5 users.
The Starter plan, at $10/user/month for up to 6 users, ads unlimited domestic text notifications and escalation policies, as well as 1 year of data access and email/chat support.
The Team plan, at $29/user/month, adds unlimited global phone/text notifications, more integrates, response orchestration, and a status dashboard.
The Business plan, at $39/user/month, adds SSO and advanced permissions, advanced integrations, unlimited data access, and phone support.
The Digital Operations plan, priced by quote from the vendor, provides a suite of add-on products, more automation, event management, analytics, and a visibility console.
xMatters has 4 different plans:
The free plan provides on-call management and a mobile application for alert management and routing.
The Starter plan, at $16/user/month, adds one year of historical data access, longer-term reporting, and a 99.9% SLA.
The Base plan, at $39/user/month, provides additional vendor support, data syncing, multilingual support, and live status updates, as well as one non-production instance.
The Advanced plan, at $59/user/month, adds best practice templates for incident management, workflows, change requests, and unlimited historical reporting, as well as 2 non-production instances.
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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We use xMatters for our alerting on critical matters. ServiceNow is our incident management system and it ties into xMatters. When a critical alert is generated it will notify the appropriate party. I'm trying to see if two other departments can use it. We are looking for a refrigeration system and for weather alerts when bad storms are coming
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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.
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xMatters is a market leader among many new burgeoning products in the stakeholder notification space. They are historically one of two original enterprise products in this space. Great client base of large companies and good reputation. xMatters offers flexible licensing models, depending on functional needs. It's easy to learn and use but slightly more difficult to administer.
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Managers are able to pull reports faster for any incidents escalated to their team.
When needing to contact another on-call associate from another team, xMatters provides conference bridge lines. You don't have to set up meetings through Outlook or Skype.
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