Hubot vs Pagerbot Comparison | StackShare

Overview

Hubot

Stacks276

Followers236

Votes60

Pagerbot

Stacks2

Followers7

Votes0

Hubot vs Pagerbot: What are the differences?

What is Hubot? A customizable life embetterment robot. Hubot is a chat bot, modeled after GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool. He's extendable with old community scripts, or new community org and your own custom scripts, and can work on many different chat services.

What is Pagerbot? Manage Pagerduty on-call schedules from within your internal chat channels. Pagerbot is a bot that makes managing PagerDuty on-call schedules easier. It currently supports IRC and slack, and can be easily deployed to heroku.

Hubot and Pagerbot belong to "ChatOps" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Hubot are:

We ship Hubot with a small group of core scripts: things like posting images, translating languages, and integrating with Google Maps
Open source, written in CoffeeScript on Node.js
Extensible

On the other hand, Pagerbot provides the following key features:

Supports both Slack and IRC
Built-in admin panel
Simple plugin architecture

Hubot and Pagerbot are both open source tools. Hubot with 15K GitHub stars and 3.5K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Pagerbot with 258 GitHub stars and 86 GitHub forks.

Detailed Comparison

Hubot	Pagerbot
Hubot is a chat bot, modeled after GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool. He's extendable with old community scripts, or new community org and your own custom scripts, and can work on many different chat services.	Pagerbot is a bot that makes managing PagerDuty on-call schedules easier. It currently supports IRC and slack, and can be easily deployed to heroku.
We ship Hubot with a small group of core scripts: things like posting images, translating languages, and integrating with Google Maps;Open source, written in CoffeeScript on Node.js;Extensible;Standardized way to share scripts between everyone's robots	Supports both Slack and IRC;Built-in admin panel;Simple plugin architecture;Stripe has been using Pagerbot as their main interface to PagerDuty for over two years now
Statistics
Stacks 276	Stacks 2
Followers 236	Followers 7
Votes 60	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 14 Easy setup 13 Extendable 12 Slack integration 11 Free 9 HipChat integration	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	Slack Heroku PagerDuty

What are some alternatives to Hubot, Pagerbot?

Lita

Lita is a chat bot written in Ruby with persistent storage provided by Redis. It uses a plugin system to connect to different chat services and to provide new behavior. The plugin system uses the familiar tools of the Ruby ecosystem: RubyGems and Bundler.

Errbot

The main use is to make it easy for you to write your own plugins so you can make it do whatever you want: a deployment, retrieving some information online, trigger a tool via an API.

HubCommander

HubCommander provides a chat-ops means for managing GitHub organizations. It creates a simple way to perform privileged GitHub organization management tasks without granting administrative or owner privileges to your GitHub organization members.

Abbot

It is a platform to build and run automation scripts from chat without a lot of hassle. It takes care of the annoying parts of getting up and running so you can focus on getting things done.

Nestor

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Securitybot

Securitybot is an open-source implementation of a distributed alerting chat bot, as described in Ryan Huber's blog post. Distributed alerting improves the monitoring efficiency of your security team and can help you catch security incidents faster and more efficiently.