PagerDuty vs. Zenduty

I've used ICM in the past which has been a very Microsoft product with everything thrown into a blender. So, PD implementation is a breath of fresh air with focused pages to achieve the end goal. If the goal is to collaborate on issues across the organization, PD might not be the best solution but within specific teams, PD excels at it.

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Zenduty helps manage the incident alerts end to end. It can e integrated with Slack to alert the team. It's an easy to configure platform that trigger alerts such as Datadog, aws cloudwatch, GCP, etc. Zenduty leverages data to perform rapid RCAs and helps reduce future incidents. It also helps in automated communications for accelerated and frictionless collaboration between support staff and subject matter experts.

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• 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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• Real time alerts on critical events
• Incidents management
• Tasks delegations and personalised communications

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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.
• Make schedule changes more intuitive.
• One button to acknowledge and close an alert.

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• Escalation option is limited, only straightforward top down even after re-assigning
• Override interface is confusing
• Lack of mobile app alerts and notifications

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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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As I've been using this app for the last 3 years, I would like to see a few additions, like exposing the "create slack channel" option from the mobile app, rather than just from the PD website from the specific incident

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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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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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There were more features and more ways to contact the provider. Ring Central would send out a call. I don't remember sending an email or text when I was paged. It seemed it was only an app on my phone and not located on my computer, where I could access it when I was working on the computer.

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Zenduty helps realise tangible impact of the incident resolution by detailed demos. Zenduty pricing is highly competitive and customised compared to other competitors. Zenduty tech support team is easily reachable and helps address any queries/ concerns on priority. Zenduty integration is super quick and easy. Zenduty can also be integrated with other tools such as Slack, gmail for real time updates.

Incentivized

• 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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• Decreased incidents by 40%
• Decrease in incident resolution and escalation time by 50%
• Increase in CSAT score by 40%

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