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  5. Healthchecks.io vs PagerDuty vs VictorOps

Healthchecks.io vs PagerDuty vs VictorOps

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PagerDuty
PagerDuty
Stacks1.0K
Followers703
Votes119
VictorOps
VictorOps
Stacks87
Followers115
Votes30
Healthchecks.io
Healthchecks.io
Stacks46
Followers61
Votes9
GitHub Stars9.6K
Forks936

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Advice on PagerDuty, VictorOps, Healthchecks.io

Michael
Michael

Systems Engineer at BetterHelp

Apr 8, 2020

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I'm currently on PagerDuty, but I'm about to add enough users to go out of the starter tier, which will dramatically increase my license cost. PagerDuty is, in my experience, quite clunky, and I'm looking for alternatives. Squadcast is one I've found, and another is xMatters. Between the three, I'm currently leaning towards xMatters, but I'd like to know what people suggest.

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Detailed Comparison

PagerDuty
PagerDuty
VictorOps
VictorOps
Healthchecks.io
Healthchecks.io

PagerDuty is an alarm aggregation and dispatching service for system administrators and support teams. It collects alerts from your monitoring tools, gives you an overall view of all of your monitoring alarms, and alerts an on duty engineer if there's a problem.

VictorOps is a real-time incident management platform that combines the power of people and data to embolden DevOps teams so they can handle incidents as they occur and prepare for the next one.

Healthchecks.io is a monitoring service for your cron jobs, background services and scheduled tasks. It works by listening for HTTP "pings" from your services. You can set up various alert methods: email, Slack, Telegram, PagerDuty, etc.

Alerting that works (and wakes you up)- When your systems go down, PagerDuty will wake you up. You choose how you want to be alerted - via phone, SMS or email, to multiple numbers, with retries.;Integrate all your existing monitoring tools- PagerDuty works great with almost all monitoring tools including: Nagios (and Icinga), Keynote, New Relic, Pingdom, Circonus, Red Gate SQL Monitor, Server Density, Zenoss, Monit, Munin, SolarWinds and many others. If it can send email, it will work with PagerDuty.;Native apps with push notifications- iOS and Android native apps with push notifications and a cross-platform mobile website ensure you can respond to alerts wherever you are, even on the go.;On-call duty scheduling- Easily set up schedules to fairly share on-call duty responsibilities with your team.;Automatic escalation of alerts- If you're paged but don't respond in time, the alert is auto-escalated to a team member. Ensures nothing slips through the cracks - ever.;Reliable, distributed architecture- PagerDuty's infrastructure is fully replicated in multiple data centers, with fast failover when problems occur.;Works internationally (Yes, really!)- Phone alerts can be delivered to over 170 countries and territories; SMS alerts are available virtually world-wide. (Is my country included?)
On-call schedule management - easily set up rotations, teams & escalation policies; Collaborative problem-solving - get the right eyes on the problem quickly; Post-mortem reporting; Alert annotations - attach documentation to incoming alerts that will help to reduce TTR; HipChat & Slack bidirectional integrations; Incident push, SMS, email, phone notifications; One touch on-call handoffs - switch on-call when real life interrupts & make sure everyone knows; Filtered incident panes; Maintenance mode; Mobile incident acknowledgements; Real-time live infrastructure timeline - all the context you need in one place; Android and iOS native apps;
Open source, can be self-hosted; Simple, clean dashboard; Free for hobby projects; $16/mo for businesses; Team access; API access
Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
9.6K
GitHub Forks
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GitHub Forks
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GitHub Forks
936
Stacks
1.0K
Stacks
87
Stacks
46
Followers
703
Followers
115
Followers
61
Votes
119
Votes
30
Votes
9
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 55
    Just works
  • 23
    Easy configuration
  • 14
    Awesome alerting hub
  • 11
    Fantastic Alert aggregation and on call management
  • 9
    User-customizable alerting modes
Cons
  • 7
    Expensive
  • 3
    Ugly UI
Pros
  • 7
    The transmogrifier is a game changer
  • 6
    Great Team, Great Product
  • 5
    Free tier
  • 3
    Much better than ANY of the alternatives. Todd is GREAT
  • 3
    Great tiered escalation management
Pros
  • 3
    Can be self-hosted
  • 2
    Free tier
  • 2
    Great value
  • 2
    Easy to understand
Integrations
Scout
Scout
Nagios
Nagios
New Relic
New Relic
HipChat
HipChat
Datadog
Datadog
Logentries
Logentries
Sensu
Sensu
Logstash
Logstash
Jira
Jira
Okta
Okta
Datadog
Datadog
Slack
Slack
Nagios
Nagios
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch
Rollbar
Rollbar
Logentries
Logentries
Honeybadger
Honeybadger
Raygun
Raygun
Bugsnag
Bugsnag
AppDynamics
AppDynamics
Trello
Trello
WhatsApp
WhatsApp
OpsGenie
OpsGenie
Pushover
Pushover
Prometheus
Prometheus
Zulip
Zulip
Telegram
Telegram
Discord
Discord
GitHub
GitHub
Slack
Slack

What are some alternatives to PagerDuty, VictorOps, Healthchecks.io?

OpsGenie

OpsGenie

OpsGenie is a cloud-based service for dev & ops teams, providing reliable alerts, on-call schedule management, and escalations. OpsGenie integrates with monitoring tools & services and ensures that the right people are at the right time.

Zenduty

Zenduty

End to end incident management platform for SRE, DevOps, Network Operations, Infrastructure and Security Operations teams

Bigpanda

Bigpanda

Bigpanda helps you manage and respond to ops incidents faster. All your alerts: organized, assignable, trackable, snoozeable, and updated in real-time.

Spike.sh

Spike.sh

Spike.sh is an incident response platform built for modern teams. Spike.sh integrates with your monitoring tools and alerts on phone call, SMS, Slack, MS Teams, Whatsapp, and Telegram.

Squadcast

Squadcast

It is an end-to-end incident response platform that helps tech teams adopt SRE best practices to maximize service reliability, accelerate innovation velocity and deliver outstanding customer experiences.

Cronitor

Cronitor

Monitoring systems are often complex and require a strong sysadmin background to properly configure and maintain. Cronitor replaces all this with a simple service that anyone can set up. Receive email/sms notifications if your jobs don't run, run too slow, or finish too quickly.

incident.io

incident.io

It is a Slack-native incident response and management tool that scales as your team grows. Hypergrowth companies use it to automate incident processes, focus on fixing the issue, and learn from incident insights to improve site reliability and fix vulnerabilities.

AlertOps

AlertOps

It is an alert aggregation and incident management service for IT and DevOps teams. It is a real-time SaaS platform that combines collaboration with alert management so you can handle critical incidents as they occur. With our quick escalations, the right alerts are delivered to the right people enabling increased agility to your team. Our mobile app and integrations allow you to get alerts through SMS, push notifications, and email so you never again miss a critical alert.

Grafana OnCall

Grafana OnCall

It is an easy-to-use on-call management tool that will help reduce toil in on-call management through simpler workflows and interfaces tailored for devs.

xMatters

xMatters

Nothing’s more important than a great customer experience, but sometimes services get disrupted. It helps teams resolve issues fast before they impact customers.

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