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BigPanda vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.5
BigPanda surpasses Netcool in efficiency, reducing resources and enhancing incident resolution and recovery times for heavy users.
Sentiment score
5.5
PagerDuty Operations Cloud boosts efficiency, reduces costs, enhances service reliability, and improves incident response, benefiting customer satisfaction and finances.
BigPanda offers significant time-saving, cost-saving, and resource-saving benefits.
Technical Lead
BigPanda saves time with its advanced features and manages large environments while requiring fewer resources compared to our previous tool, Netcool.
Software Engineer at Trianz
Resource count has probably reduced by about ten to twenty percent due to the reduced incident count, which enables me to identify issues faster, meaning business recovery is quicker.
Director Of Engineering at Broadcom Inc.
The escalation was not possible at all before, which led to the L1 team being under too much stress.
Software Developer at Webspruce
The alert reduction feature has greatly impacted our ability to prevent costly incidents, as we can accurately respond to alerts with the help of autonomous AI agents, which reduces erroneous notifications.
Sr.DevOps Engineer at Scaler
We definitely save time with PagerDuty Operations Cloud. It saves more than half an hour—30 minutes—for each incident.
Sr. Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
BigPanda's support is praised for responsiveness and effectiveness, despite occasional delays, with some users noting communication issues.
Sentiment score
7.1
PagerDuty Operations Cloud provides 24/7 support with high satisfaction, offering proactive assistance, quick responses, and effective problem resolution.
If BigPanda can consistently provide such competent contacts, I would rate the support ten out of ten, otherwise, it is an eight out of ten.
Engineer - Cloud and Infrastructure Services at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Companies like CoreLogix, which is a log platform, achieve ten out of ten due to their responsiveness.
CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd
For technical support, we have only had to address password resets and alert mismatching.
Technical Lead
PagerDuty Operations Cloud is a good product for the organization and the support team is highly effective and responsive.
Delivery Manager at Cognizant
we have never had an issue when reaching out to someone in customer service
Senior Cloud Operations Engineer at IMO Health
They understand our concerns and are willing to implement solutions that integrate into PagerDuty Operations Cloud effectively.
Senior SRE at IBM
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
BigPanda efficiently scales across environments, managing numerous alerts and servers, with high ratings despite occasional peak-time delays.
Sentiment score
7.2
PagerDuty Operations Cloud scales well, integrates efficiently, and adapts to growth but may challenge pricing for smaller teams.
It handles large volumes of alerts without limitations.
We manage a large environment with over 50,000 servers and various monitoring tools like Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Nagios, and Datadog.
Software Engineer at Trianz
I rate the scalability of BigPanda at eight.
Manager Observability at ICE
Scalability for PagerDuty Operations Cloud is excellent, and I rate it at 9.9.
Network Operations Center Engineer at HTC Global Inc
Whatever top-notch tools we are using as an enterprise solution, PagerDuty Operations Cloud has kept itself current and integrates nicely with all the tools we use these days.
Lead Engineer, Cloud Operations at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
We are able to extend our PagerDuty Operations Cloud configuration without major challenges or changes to our overall operational model.
Lead Data Ops Engineer at Wipro Limited
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
BigPanda is stable with slight slowdowns; users request intuitive features, appreciate communication, and note improved stability and task management.
Sentiment score
8.2
PagerDuty Operations Cloud is praised for stability, reliable alerts, efficient management, and high ratings across industries despite minor delays.
BigPanda is now stable.
I would rate the availability of BigPanda at nine because it's almost 99.99% available.
Manager Observability at ICE
However, when handling critical traffic, the BigPanda site can slow down, which we manage with a load balancer.
Software Engineer at Trianz
We have never experienced any downtime or latency issues from PagerDuty Operations Cloud.
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
It never breaks down for us, and considering I have devoted 20 years of my career to IT infrastructure operations, where everything typically breaks down, including Jira and ServiceNow, it is impressive to say that PagerDuty Operations Cloud has not caused disruptions.
CSO C Apac at Autodesk, Inc.
Over three years, we have experienced zero outages on PagerDuty that prevented alerting or on-call notifications.
Senior Software Engineer at Infosys
 

Room For Improvement

BigPanda requires AI enhancements, bug fixes, improved usability, expanded features, and better integration to address cost and performance issues.
PagerDuty Operations Cloud needs better configuration, cost reduction, and UI to enhance alerts, integrations, customization, and user satisfaction.
A 'deep dive' analysis feature would be appreciated to give detailed insights such as CPU usage and disk space analysis.
It would be beneficial if BigPanda leveraged AI to solve critical issues related to editing and sending alerts based on enrichment mapping files.
Software Engineer at Trianz
If BigPanda could integrate AI, it would enhance the platform significantly by offering chatbot functionality within the BigPanda UI.
Engineer - Cloud and Infrastructure Services at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It would be useful to have a way to define all configurations in code that is similar to how Terraform operates.
Sr Director - Global Support APJ at HashiCorp
With many new members, they need training to set up runbook workflows, event orchestration, and manage complex on-call schedules across 23 services, making it a challenge for new users.
Senior SRE at IBM
Additionally, I think a sandbox mode would be helpful for new team members, allowing us to guide them in simulating alerts, performing escalation policies, and creating PagerDuty Operations Cloud channels.
Dev Ops Engineer | Cloud Cost Optimization at HCLSoftware
 

Setup Cost

BigPanda offers competitive pricing and flexible licensing, benefiting high-growth companies with potential costs reaching $200,000 annually.
PagerDuty offers competitive pricing with flexible licensing, though costs may rise, delivering justified value and efficiency despite expenses.
The pricing for BigPanda is reasonable compared to other event management tools, given its advantages.
Software Engineer at Trianz
There are indirect costs related to managing open-source products, leading to resource investment in maintaining the dashboards for these capabilities.
Director Of Engineering at Broadcom Inc.
I had around seven users part of it for a base pricing of around $450 per user, primarily for custom workflows and the ITSM part.
Senior SRE at IBM
The pricing for PagerDuty Operations Cloud is a bit expensive, especially for startups like us, compared to the other platform which I mentioned, which is Rootly.
Dev Ops Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
We have been using PagerDuty Operations Cloud for several years, so our pricing and cost have definitely increased over time, especially as we have hired additional engineers.
Senior Cloud Operations Engineer at IMO Health
 

Valuable Features

BigPanda enhances incident management with AI-driven analysis, reducing response times via integration and alert consolidation for improved reliability.
PagerDuty Operations Cloud optimizes alert management through mobile notifications, tool integrations, and AI, enhancing efficiency and boosting revenue.
Its automation has significantly improved incident response times, reducing the process to within one minute.
It can correlate multiple issues within a single device, create a single incident, and thus reduce noise and provide faster resolution.
Manager Observability at ICE
BigPanda improves service reliability with instant resolution, increased uptime, and reduced mean time to resolution, thus enhancing service quality.
Technical Lead
It integrates with multiple applications and is highly customizable, with policies, escalation procedures, and an event routing tool that ensures contacting the right person.
Sr Director - Global Support APJ at HashiCorp
In addition to those features, I also find the integration and reporting aspects of PagerDuty Operations Cloud valuable, as it records all triggered calls and incidents, enabling us to analyze patterns and identify the times when systems go down, thus assisting us in understanding and addressing the underlying causes.
Senior Business Application Analyst (Product Team) at Kotak Mahindra Bank
Before, setting up everything was very difficult. Now, we don't have to think about it. We can simply set it up in PagerDuty and it works.
Software Developer at Webspruce
 

Categories and Ranking

BigPanda
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
10th
Ranking in AIOps
9th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (22nd)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
1st
Ranking in AIOps
5th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (5th), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st), Autonomous Operational Resilience (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of BigPanda is 2.6%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 9.7%, down from 19.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud9.7%
BigPanda2.6%
Other87.7%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

Michael Wenn - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd
Automated incident workflows have reduced alert noise and now improve response efficiency
In my opinion, the best feature of BigPanda is its speed in terms of deployment. It has very strong integration with all of the major platforms and workflows that organizations need. The biggest customers are enterprises like HSBC and Barclays. Implementing something effective for them that dramatically reduces meantime to repair and the number of incidents is substantially difficult, as projects can often extend three years with very small results. BigPanda is different; it is a tool relied on by many enterprises, fitting over existing toolsets rather than trying to replace them, which makes it non-competitive to many existing alerts and monitoring tools. It enhances existing systems to provide actionable intelligence for business solutions.
Daksh Yamal - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Infosys
Centralized incident response has cut noise, improved morale, and protects revenue every day
PagerDuty Operations Cloud offers robust features including centralized alerting and incident response, on-call scheduling and escalation, automated remediation and runbooks, stakeholder communication during major incidents, and automation capability. Everything has been working exceptionally well with PagerDuty Operations Cloud. The features have been excellent. It is a spanning tool that has enabled us to operationalize reliability. Since rolling it out three years ago, we have cut MTTR by 35% and reduced on-call noise by 70% through AIOps correlation. For us, the main value of PagerDuty Operations Cloud lies less in paging and more in coordination, automation, and reducing the operational burden on engineers. Reducing the operational burden has improved morale among our engineers. They have been able to focus on other projects and tasks since they have saved considerable time, and consequently productivity in the organization has greatly improved. We have also seen faster incident response, lower MTTR, reduced alert noise, and decreased on-call burnout. Additionally, automation has reduced manual toil, with approximately 25 of our P2 incidents now being resolved or partially resolved by automation before an engineer touches them.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
24%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
Retailer
5%
Performing Arts
14%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Educational Organization
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business27
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise60
 

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BigPanda?
Regarding extra expenses, I pay more for communication and do not incur costs for another dashboard perspective, but there are indirect costs related to managing open-source products, leading to re...
What needs improvement with BigPanda?
Something that comes to mind regarding improvements is communication, as I rely heavily on another tool. If BigPanda could provide communication capabilities beyond just sending notifications—such ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
I would say the pricing is quite mid-range, but the setup cost and licensing can sometimes be a little challenging.
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
Currently, improvements for PagerDuty Operations Cloud could be made. It mainly acts as a monitoring alert tool. We need to prioritize tickets according to P1, P2, P3, and perhaps create a dashboar...
What is your primary use case for PagerDuty?
PagerDuty Operations Cloud serves as an alerting tool for our organization. Whenever applications or any protection systems are down, we get notified via email and mobile. My current role in PagerD...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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