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Freshservice vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
Freshservice support is praised for responsiveness but criticized for navigation challenges, misunderstandings, and inconsistent satisfaction with issue resolution.
Sentiment score
6.3
PagerDuty Operations Cloud is highly rated for responsive, effective customer support, with most issues resolved swiftly under 24 hours.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.6
Freshservice needs better reporting, customization, integration, and workflow management, along with improvements in analytics and support features.
Sentiment score
5.5
PagerDuty users seek better time zone handling, UI intuitiveness, integration, automation, and efficient incident management with enhanced analytics.
There's limited experience with the CMDB or asset management features.
It would be useful to have a way to define all configurations in code that is similar to how Terraform operates.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Freshservice scales well for small to medium businesses, despite customization limits and cost concerns for larger enterprises.
Sentiment score
8.7
PagerDuty Operations Cloud excels in scalability, integration, and management, though licensing costs may pose scaling challenges for enterprises.
The product was highly scalable, with no limits on the number of applications or event routing rules.
 

Setup Cost

No sentiment score available
Enterprise buyers should explore Freshservice's flexible licensing and competitive pricing, assessing feature costs and scalability per needs.
No sentiment score available
PagerDuty Operations Cloud offers flexible pricing, but costs can be high; users find it competitive and valuable.
The solution offers flat licensing and appears to be cost-effective.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.5
Freshservice is praised for reliability and stability, with minor issues in integration and data imports occasionally noted by users.
Sentiment score
8.0
PagerDuty Operations Cloud is praised for stability and reliability, with quick resolutions for rare notification delays and effective support.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.3
Freshservice excels with its user-friendly design, scalability, and comprehensive features, boosting IT productivity and offering flexible pricing.
Sentiment score
8.9
PagerDuty Operations Cloud provides seamless incident management with integrations, automation, and user-friendly features, enhancing alert routing and communication.
The most valuable features include ticket routing, automation in triage, data control, and flat licensing.
It integrates with multiple applications and is highly customizable, with policies, escalation procedures, and an event routing tool that ensures contacting the right person.
 

Categories and Ranking

Freshservice
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (9th), Project Management Software (14th), Cloud Management (17th), IT Asset Management (9th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (7th)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (15th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), AIOps (13th), Critical Event Management (CEM) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Systems Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Freshservice is designed for Help Desk Software and holds a mindshare of 3.4%, down 3.8% compared to last year.
PagerDuty Operations Cloud, on the other hand, focuses on IT Alerting and Incident Management, holds 29.5% mindshare, down 32.7% since last year.
Help Desk Software
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

Tim Guilder - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides excellent traceability along with improved efficiency and reliability
It would be good to have the product integrated with Google because that's our corporate tool of choice. I'd also like to see a notice board where you can list a summary of the top 10 items being dealt with each day. It's something that would be very helpful. I believe they're working on a chatbot but we haven't seen that as yet. I'd like it to include a space where questions asked to a chatbot can be self-triaged in terms of support or with the ability to point you towards a knowledge-based article. We've been doing some of that ourselves but it would be good to have it through a chatbot.
Ashish  Paikrao - PeerSpot reviewer
Effectively generates alerts for incidents, making it suitable for 24/7 monitoring of infrastructure
We were exploring ManageEngine ServiceDesk. So, we need a feature where we can, like, when an alert triggers, we should alert the recipient by on-call. So, when an alert is detected, a ticket is generated in the management team, and we want to notify them on-call. Like, this ticket has been generated and stuff. So, I would like to see a similar feature in this solution. This is why we want an alternative to PagerDuty. We want an alternative to PagerDuty. So we are getting on-call notifications using PagerDuty, but now we want to replace PagerDuty with ManageEngine ServiceDesk. So whenever some incident happens in the cloud infrastructure, we get data alerts from cloud security. We want to integrate a service that will provide us with notifications on-call. That this server is down, or this website is down, or this thing is going wrong. Another area of improvement is integration. It cannot be integrated with our upgraded Jira system. That's why we are dropping PagerDuty. We won't continue using it due to integration issues.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
26%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Freshservice?
The solution has been very helpful engineering insights into the client's environment. We have been able to manage calls and incidence very efficiently which provides us with a clear understanding...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Freshservice?
We're on the pro model and the pro license. It is kinda expensive. There are several licensing options. We don't use the higher license model, which is very, very expensive. So, there are three opt...
What needs improvement with Freshservice?
There are requirements, not only from our side but from different users worldwide. I work with some community groups worldwide, and we have been placing several requests. So, there are a few areas ...
What do you like most about PagerDuty?
The product easily integrates with other solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
The price is very high. I rate the pricing a six out of ten. The license for stakeholders is very limited.
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
It is difficult to send underlying trace files or statuses using PagerDuty. You can set up email alerts, but you cannot build any triggers using those email alerts. There are limitations; you canno...
 

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Sample Customers

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Western Carriers, Judson University, Golf Canada, Travix, Proxama, Paymentez, Ready Auto Transport
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