Opsgenie vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

Atlassian and PagerDuty are both solutions in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category. Atlassian is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.3, while PagerDuty is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.5. Atlassian holds a 18.3% mindshare in IMS, compared to PagerDuty’s 23.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Atlassian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of PagerDuty users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 12, 2025

PagerDuty Operations Cloud and Opsgenie compete in the alert management and incident response market. PagerDuty appears to have an edge with its extensive scheduling and customization options along with robust alert management and seamless incident handling.

Features: PagerDuty's strengths include robust alert management with automatic escalation, versatile notification methods like SMS and phone calls, and rich integration with monitoring systems. The product also offers extensive customization options with its mobile app and flexible scheduling. Opsgenie is recognized for its integration capabilities and ease of use with third-party tools like Jira, along with on-call management. It provides configurable alert levels and flexible notification methods, enhancing its incident management.

Room for Improvement: PagerDuty could improve its integration capabilities and make scheduling more intuitive while addressing noise suppression when multiple alerts occur. Enhancing machine learning capabilities for incident prediction is also desirable. Opsgenie would benefit from simplifying alert and user management and boosting API features. Users suggest improved integration with Jira Service Management and a more intuitive user interface for adding new users, along with expanded reporting.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PagerDuty offers versatility in deployment across public and private clouds and on-premises setups, with customers praising its responsive technical support. Opsgenie also provides flexible deployment options and maintains overall customer satisfaction, though support interaction feedback is less detailed. Both are mostly self-intuitive, with infrequent need for technical support.

Pricing and ROI: PagerDuty is considered potentially costly but worth the price due to its comprehensive features enhancing operational efficiency and reducing downtime. Flexible plans address different needs. Opsgenie is generally more affordable but seen as less comprehensive, primarily offering good value when part of Jira Service Management. Users note pricing concerns compared to similar alternatives but report ROI through effective incident management and cost savings.

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Categories and Ranking

Opsgenie

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

PagerDuty Operations Cloud

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (14th), AIOps (9th), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Opsgenie is 18.3%, down from 24.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 23.1%, down from 31.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Syed Mohammad Arshad

Vice President - Operations and Client Services at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

The price is competitive and it's easy to use and configure

We are using the cloud version of Atlassian products now, but I think the Data Center version we used earlier was much more user-friendly. There are lots of limitations in the cloud version The add-on or features that work with the Data Center versions are not compatible with the cloud version. Opsgenie fits on top of the base application, which is Jira Service Management. Jira Service Management is an investigation. Previously, we had Jira Service Management and PagerDuty running on top of that. Now, Opsgenie is bundled as a part of JSM. However, when we switched to the cloud version, many of the features have become a bit complicated compared to the Data Center version I had used for years. It might be due to an architectural change or some other reason: Also, it would be nice if Opsgenie had the ability to import rosters from other sources like you can do in PagerDuty.

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JeremyEmmett

Sr Director - Global Support APJ at HashiCorp

Centralized alert management with customizable routing and superior scheduling

Everything can always be better. Operations are somewhat limited by their integration package. For example, integrating with Jira was problematic until they updated to a better plug-in. The ability to build customized modules would be advantageous, allowing organizations to define their own integration modules. It would be useful to have a way to define all configurations in code that is similar to how Terraform operates.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The rotation and scheduling are beneficial."

"We can rely on the product to organize our schedules. We don't have to think about who will be next on-call. The system already gives us the answer. We don't have to waste time organizing how people are going to be covering each of their rotations. There's also an override option. So, it's easy to reschedule or reorganize our schedules when someone goes on vacation or when someone is on sick leave."

"I am a Jira admin. The best feature for me is that I do not need to write different code when I integrate with multiple applications. OpsGenie made it easier for me. All I need to do is create a field and give a value. I need to set the parameters and give a value. I can write only one script so that it directly interacts with my Jira and feeds all the data."

"Opsgenie has streamlined our communications and alerting."

"Opsgenie is easy to configure and use."

"OpsGenie has many features, such as email notification, SMS notification, roster, tracking of the tickets. Automation, like scripting, is also possible. There are also features for maintaining the history of the tickets and all the solutions related to how it was resolved previously. If there are similar kinds of tickets, we can look at how a person is working on that ticket. If he doesn't have any idea, you can look back at a similar ticket and solve it as the previous person did it."

"One of the features my team found valuable in Opsgenie is the alert. There's also the option to install an app on your phone, so even if you don't have any mobile reception, but you're still connected to WiFi, you still get the alerts via the app, not just via phone call or SMS. The combination of both options was very useful because sometimes you have data and you don't have coverage by mobile, or vice versa. To have both options in terms of receiving alerts was very useful. Another valuable feature of Opsgenie is the on-call rotation with alerts. I belonged to a small team of three, then the team expanded into four members where everyone was on a weekly on-call basis, with each team member having a week of being on-call. At first, it was a bi-weekly on-call rotation, then it became once every three weeks, and after that, it was once every four weeks, so the on-call rotation with an alert feature was useful. My previous company had two separate environments, on the cloud and on-premises. My team was in charge of the on-premise environment, so there was a queue for my team with everything in Opsgenie, then the DevOps team had its queue on a group of infrastructure related to the cloud. Each team had its own devices organized in a group that was only managed per team. The on-call rotation was also separated between groups. Opsgenie is a very convenient solution for both teams in my previous company."

"The integration feature is the most valuable. It provides a lot of customizations for the integrations we use."

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"It has scaled well for us."

"It reduces the amount of white noise. If something comes through, then it will alert somebody. However, if it's a bit of white noise that comes through at night, then it gets dealt with the next day. Everything is visible to everybody. It's not just a single person getting an SMS, then going, "Oh, I'm not going to worry about that." The visibility to everybody on the team is one of the great things about it because it reduces the white noise."

"PagerDuty let us set up rosters based on our shifts. We could assign a hierarchy for how the calls should be escalated and the number of times the call will be transferred between people before it is answered. It makes it easy to access an agent via mobile phone."

"PagerDuty is very stable and very reliable."

"The product easily integrates with other solutions."

"The alerts are immediate in this solution, which allows us to respond to errors quickly."

"The inbound integrations that PagerDuty provides with most of the DevOps tools are valuable."

"PagerDuty's best features are the dedicated application that allows me to reach my engineers immediately and the ability to directly assign specific tasks to individuals and have them report back."

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Cons

"The user interface could be improved."

"They could introduce many more features."

"The handshake with the monitoring tools can also be improved. When there were a bunch of alerts or the number of alerts was more than a thousand in a minute, OpsGenie wasn't able to handle everything properly. The handshake issues were there."

"Initially, Opsgenie had bidirectional integration with Jira Service Management, but that functionality has been scaled back. Previously, Opsgenie was adept at managing incidents within its ecosystem, offering seamless ticket transfers between Opsgenie and Jira Service Desk. I valued the ability to push tickets between the two platforms, addressing the need for widespread information accessibility, though it sometimes led to duplication. My suggestion would be to reintroduce complete ticket funneling between these systems to streamline operations."

"It should have a lot of plugins. It should also come with cloud integrations, which are not that great with OpsGenie as of now. It should have AWS, Azure, and Google cloud integrations. It should also provide automation, that is, it should open somewhere, like orchestration. Something like the orchestration that ServiceNow is doing. That would be great. Orchestration is the main thing. If OpsGenie comes with stack down feature, not completely but some part of it, and orchestration is there, that would be beneficial."

"I would like to see a little bit more work in API key management in the Opsgenie UI. It's a bit difficult to manage sometimes. For example, in terms of management, you can either see all the keys or none of the keys. This is something for which I would like to have better granularity so that I could give some people access to some of the keys. It's something that I don't have today if I'm not mistaken."

"I would like to see reports that can provide us with integration with Jira or with another management solution, which I'm not sure Opsgenie provides. The integration is possible, however as Opsgenie reports is an area that needs to be addressed. An alert is received, and Opsgenie will immediately generate a ticket or card for that issue, track it, and provide a follow-up. Opsgenie will also track an issue's whole life cycle. This is something that I would like to see in Opsgenie."

"In a future release, we would like to receive alerts when a specific threshold is reached and to escalate the reason for that alert."

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"PagerDuty should be integrated with other tools, so it can import the IT roster automatically. Our other rules continue to work once they're configured, but the roster must be added manually."

"The solution's analytics are okay. I don't think the features, at this point, give you a lot of insights. We have actually been trying to get insights from it but it hasn't really given us a lot of extra points to explore. We were looking at the number of alerts to see where many of the alerts were coming from. We never managed to get many insights on this."

"It is difficult to send underlying trace files or statuses using PagerDuty."

"PagerDuty could improve the event orchestration by enhancing features, such as easier condition setup inside the orchestration."

"The user interface could be more intuitive."

"The biggest area for improvement with PagerDuty is noise suppression. There have been a handful of incidents through our use of PagerDuty over the years where one incident may lead to 30 to 50 pages because you're monitoring all these different things, and each thing is an individual page. There should be the ability to set up paging tiers and group correlations between some of the different pages. That is something that would be really valuable. We should be able to say this one page may have a group or a tree of effective other pages that may tier off of it. So, if you see those pages independently, go ahead and alarm, but if you see this plus that, don't do that."

"The On-Call Teams feature could be better in terms of levels of conditions related to which team or member should get the responsibility of handling a matter or incident."

"PagerDuty can improve the integration with Terraform."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate Opsgenie eight out of 10 for affordability. Opsgenie is on the cheaper side, and it fits our budget. I estimate the license costs around $400 to 500 annually for 15 users. The price is available on the internet. It's a standard, straightforward price."

"Integration with other solutions is one of the most valuable features of Opsgenie."

"The pricing is fine. I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, with one being high price and ten being low price."

"We have opted for a yearly subscription. The initial quote given was about $29, but I don't know the actual price. There might be some negotiations during renewal."

"The solution's prices are exorbitant."

"I'm not the person who dealt with Opsgenie in terms of pricing, and I don't know how the solution compares to other solutions in the market, price-wise. I won't be able to say if it gives you the best value for money or not, but if Opsgenie gives good value for money, then I don't see a reason why you shouldn't use it."

"In the company I'm working for, currently, we are using the standard edition of Opsgenie. We're paying around $3,000 a month. It's a bit expensive compared to the other tools we use for different purposes. We find it a bit expensive because although Opsgenie is a complete tool for monitoring, it does not provide us with everything."

"From the pricing perspective, they are on the higher side as compared to other competitors."

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"Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."

"There is a license needed to use PagerDuty."

"The cost is based on the package you select."

"If you add more people, then you have to pay more, which is always a thing with the SaaS solutions."

"They're very good in pricing compared to the competitors in the area. I would rate them a five out of five in terms of pricing."

"The cost is quite high. But if you want to get a full-featured application and you have a big team..."

"PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."

"The pricing may be about $1,000 per user."

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10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Opsgenie?

That clarity, visibility, scheduling, and the management of on-call schedules, as well as tracking SLA breaches and workload, are key reasons to utilize Opsgenie.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Opsgenie?

The pricing is on the lower side; I would rate it a six out of ten, with ten being low price, which indicates good affordability.

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What needs improvement with Opsgenie?

Initially, Opsgenie had bidirectional integration with Jira Service Management, but that functionality has been scaled back. Previously, Opsgenie was adept at managing incidents within its ecosyste...

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What do you like most about PagerDuty?

The product easily integrates with other solutions.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?

The solution was expensive, but if all its features were utilized, it was considered worth the cost. The tier-based pricing model was cumbersome, and there was a desire for a service-based catalog ...

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Overview

Users are empowered to manage their contact details and notification preferences in a single location, hence the administrators don't have to maintain this information at each application. OpsGenie is a cloud based service with reliable, distributed architecture that is replicated in multiple data centers, and monitored around the clock. The lifecycle for each alert, notifications, actions taken by users, are recorded and reported to enable admins to easily analyze what happened. No more wasting time, digging up log files. No more finger pointing.

Most enterprises employ multitude of tools for IT management: for monitoring, ticketing, configuration and change management, etc. Although each of these tools may be individually capable of sending notifications via email or SMS, it is a burden for administrators to maintain the same information in each of these multiple, disparate systems.

OpsGenie enables organizations to consolidate notification management into a single management system. OpsGenie enables users to maintain their own contact details and preferences in one place, eliminating duplication of data, reducing administrative overhead.

Atlassian

The PagerDuty Operations Cloud is the platform for mission-critical, time-critical operations work in the modern enterprise. Through the power of AI and automation, it detects and diagnoses disruptive events, mobilizes the right team members to respond, and streamlines infrastructure and workflows across your digital operations. The Operations Cloud is essential infrastructure for revolutionizing digital operations to compete and win as a modern digital business.

PagerDuty Features

PagerDuty has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

650+ integrations
Alerting
Native apps with push notifications
On-call duty scheduling
Automatic escalation of alerts
Reliable, distributed architecture
Incident reporting
Real-time monitoring
Network analysis
Issue tracking
Access controls/permissions
Service Level Agreement (SLA) management

PagerDuty Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing PagerDuty. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Ideal for developers: With the PagerDuty solution, developers can spend more time focused on code. The solution’s powerful automation and noise reduction capabilities minimize interruptions and mobilize the right team in seconds.

Security incident response: Because of its integration ecosystem, PagerDuty enables you to respond to threats faster, tighten up security vulnerabilities, and get better cross-team visibility.

Critical event management: The solution makes it possible for your organization to get your crisis management team up and running quickly, keep all your business leaders and stakeholders informed in critical moments, and limit any disruptions that could impact your reputation or core business.

Service ownership: PagerDuty’s service ownership allows you to give everyone more autonomy, boost accountability, and minimize the impact of issues by quickly pulling in the right responder every time.

CollabOps: With this solution, you can integrate with chat and video tools like Slack, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. Doing so makes it easier to contain incidents quickly, avoid manual errors, and streamline work across DevOps, CSOps, BizOps, and ITOps organizations.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the PagerDuty solution.

Brandon J., Director of engineering at a wellness & fitness company, says, "The SMS pages and the mobile application are pretty much the top two features."

PeerSpot reviewer Pramodh M., DevSecOps Consultant at a tech services company, comments, “The inbound integrations that PagerDuty provides with most of the DevOps tools are valuable. There is a flexible and easy way of integrating with monitoring tools. It allows us to configure the integration with APIs and plugins as well.”

Syed Mohammad A., Vice President - Operations and Client Services at a financial services firm, mentions, "PagerDuty let us set up rosters based on our shifts. We could assign a hierarchy for how the calls should be escalated and the number of times the call will be transferred between people before it is answered. It makes it easy to access an agent via mobile phone."

A Principal Architect at an energy/utilities company states, “The most important feature that is used is call scheduling. We are also able to actually call IT folks in the case of an emergency.”

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2500+ customers including Yahoo, Politico, Dynatrace, Looker, Solarwinds, Overstock, Oregon State University, Glassdoor, Cloudticity, Unbounce, Bleacher Report

40% of the Fortune 100 TrustPagerDuty. Customers include: Slack, Intuit, Zendesk, Panasonic, Pinterest, Airbnb, eHarmony, McKesson, Comcast

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