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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

    xMatters

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AxMatters 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.

    $9

    per month

    Pricing
    PagerDutyxMatters
    Editions & Modules
    Professional
    $25
    per month per user
    Business
    $49
    per month per user
    Enterprise
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    Starter
    $9
    per user/per month
    Base
    $39
    per user/per month
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    PagerDutyxMatters
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    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
    PagerDutyxMatters
    Considered Both Products
    PagerDuty
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    I only have experience with the old-style pagers from the late 90s. Of course, PD is light years better than those!!!
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    After evaluation of the other two products on the market, we opted for PagerDuty, for its reliability, flexibility, and functionality.
    Incentivized
    Chose PagerDuty
    PagerDuty has far more integrations and a much user friendly interface.
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    Everbridge
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
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    TrustRadius Insights
    PagerDutyxMatters
    Highlights

    TrustRadius
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    Published

    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.
    User Ratings
    PagerDutyxMatters
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (141 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (85 ratings)
    9.9
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PagerDutyxMatters
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Everbridge
    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
    Incentivized
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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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    Everbridge
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Everbridge
    • granular notification settings
    • Allowing users to create custom integration templates would provide more flexibility and control over how xMatters integrates with their systems
    • Additional built-in integrations with other applications would be an area of improvement.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Everbridge
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    Usability
    PagerDuty
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    Everbridge
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    Support Rating
    PagerDuty
    No answers on this topic
    Everbridge
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    Implementation Rating
    PagerDuty
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    Everbridge
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    Alternatives Considered
    PagerDuty
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    Everbridge
    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.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Everbridge
    • Quicker response times for on-call personnel.
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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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.