PagerDuty Operations Cloud Reviews

My main use case for PagerDuty Operations Cloud is monitoring and on-call management for downtime.

Recently, we had a service go down last week, and we were alerted via PagerDuty Operations Cloud of the issue. One of our on-call engineers responded to the page and quickly resolved the problem through PagerDuty Operations Cloud app.

The best features PagerDuty Operations Cloud offers include the ability to integrate its app through various platforms such as Teams and various monitoring platforms such as New Relic and DynaTrace. It is easy to use, easy to log in and configure your on-call rotation, as well as utilizing their business services and technical services to properly configure how you want things monitored and alerted.

The integrations and easy configuration help our team by saving time and reducing errors. We use Terraform to create various modules, including integrations with PagerDuty Operations Cloud and our monitoring platform, New Relic. When a team creates a new application, we ask them to use our monitoring module to monitor their service using New Relic and PagerDuty Operations Cloud. By doing that, we save time and errors by preventing people from manually having to set up their PagerDuty Operations Cloud operations; it is all done through this module, which is easy to use.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud has positively impacted our organization by allowing us to be immediately paged when a system or service is down, enabling us to quickly respond and provide updates to the organization on issues and their resolution.

This quick response has led to measurable improvements, with reduced downtime and faster incident resolution times, as our on-call engineers are appropriately alerted when things happen. We understand based on the page what is going on and how to quickly respond to it, and if we need help, we can loop in other engineers and our managers that own the product to resolve it quicker.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud can be improved by using automation or AI to advance the product in such a way that it allows the implementation of automation to resolve issues or speed up workflows.

I have been using PagerDuty Operations Cloud for six years.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud is stable.

Its scalability is impressive; it scales very well, allowing us to add licenses, add services, and more very quickly and easily.

The customer support is great; we have never had an issue when reaching out to someone in customer service when we have questions.

Previously, we were using New Relic for monitoring, which sent us alerts when issues went down, but we ended up using PagerDuty Operations Cloud alongside it because PagerDuty Operations Cloud is used for on-call alerting.

Our experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been straightforward and easy. 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. Adding additional users and/or licenses is very straightforward, and we have always had a good experience with customer service from PagerDuty Operations Cloud side.

The best return on investment comes from being alerted and paged for ongoing issues or new issues appropriately, allowing us to set up those schedules and engineers. The fact that PagerDuty Operations Cloud allows us to be alerted when things go down and configure how our engineers are alerted speaks to the return on investment due to the quick response it facilitates.

Our experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been straightforward and easy. 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. Adding additional users and/or licenses is very straightforward, and we have always had a good experience with customer service from PagerDuty Operations Cloud side.

I did not evaluate other options before choosing PagerDuty Operations Cloud.

I recommend PagerDuty Operations Cloud as a great service and application to anyone that needs to improve their on-call process at their company. I gave this product a rating of 10.

In my organization, we use PagerDuty Operations Cloud to acknowledge alerts. PagerDuty Operations Cloud is organized so that it is often used to page the SMEs. Whenever we work on any tasks and face critical situations where we are unable to troubleshoot from our end, we page for the SMEs. Irrespective of the team, if it is infra-related issues, we page to infra. If it is related to some other product, we page to that product's SMEs and involve them into a PagerDuty Operations Cloud call. We inform them regarding the issues, and then they acknowledge the alerts. After acknowledging the alerts, they start working on that particular error.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud is also organized so that if there is any critical issue, it will create an alert that will go in a particular notification form to the SME with a phone call, stating that there is a critical issue which is in progress. The particular SME will acknowledge the alert and come and join the call, mentioning that they have been paged for this issue. Then we will start working with that particular team to resolve the issue from our end.

Regarding the incident command system, we use the Freshservice tool. Freshservice and PagerDuty Operations Cloud have been synced in my organization. The incident command system is a structured way for major incidents. Whenever there would be any outage, in order to proceed with the communication flow, we use the incident command system in PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Everyone will jump into a call, and then multiple people will start fixing the issues. Everyone will be working hard to bring that instance back online or to restore that particular environment.

The best feature that I like about PagerDuty Operations Cloud is whenever we page a particular team. There is a specific feature where we can directly page a person. Usually, once we trigger the alert, it goes to a particular person, and if that person does not acknowledge it, then it will go to their reporting person. Even if they also do not acknowledge it, then it will go to some other person. In that case, it tends to take a bit of time because whenever we see the alerts, the alerts will be shifting to other people. Some people might not acknowledge the alerts due to various reasons, and it may get missed. In PagerDuty Operations Cloud, there is a specific feature where we can page a specific person or a specific user. If we give the particular team name, then in the subfield, we can specifically page a person. This feature attracts me a lot.

Additionally, there is another feature where we can check the SME calendar. In my organization, for a particular week, one person will be allotted as an SME. That calendar shows which person is the SME for the particular week regarding the particular product. These are the features I enjoy the most in PagerDuty Operations Cloud.

The main benefits I can say from using PagerDuty Operations Cloud are that we can easily page them. It is also widely used in our operations team for faster incident response, leading to a reduction of the MTTR, mean time to resolution. The smart on-call management allows us to create a call for the on-call people and to involve the backup engineers as well. One special thing in PagerDuty Operations Cloud is it has time zone-based scheduling. As per that particular time zone, we can schedule them. I witnessed automated escalation, where the particular person missed acknowledging the alert in PagerDuty Operations Cloud, leading to an automated escalation to their associate director or VP. This escalation policy is also very good in PagerDuty Operations Cloud.

The impact of integrating PagerDuty Operations Cloud with Freshservice is very good because earlier, when it was not integrated, there were many problems while paging the alerts. Now, when we have integrated it to Freshservice, once the alert comes into the queue of Freshservice, automatically a PagerDuty Operations Cloud alert will be created. So automatically, it syncs. Once it gets synced, the alert will be automatically created in PagerDuty Operations Cloud and will go to that particular person who is allotted as an SME for that particular product.

The measurable benefits from PagerDuty Operations Cloud are that it has made our work easier, where the alerts will be synced and then directly create an alert to the SMEs. Instead of doing it manually, if it is automated in such a way that an alert gets triggered and routed directly to the SME, then that is a great benefit.

To improve PagerDuty Operations Cloud, I can mention that we can improve the escalation policies. Nowadays, many people miss the alerts. There was an issue in a particular product, and when we paged it, that particular paged alert went to other product people. I do not know how that happened in PagerDuty Operations Cloud; it might be some configuration changes or anything in the backend. The point is we can improve on this setting, where the actual PagerDuty Operations Cloud alert should be routed and assigned to the correct person of that particular product. If it gets triggered to some other person unnecessarily, even that day, the particular person came into the Slack channel asking why they got paged for a product they were not part of. This is something we can improve on.

One feature I would like to see included in PagerDuty Operations Cloud is for a particular week, each person is assigned as an SME. It would be beneficial to add a note in the particular calendar where if this person is not available, then the backup engineer's name can be included.

We have not used the real-time digital operations management feature. The advanced analytics feature is being used by another product in my cloud operations team. In my team, we have not used it.

Regarding customer service and technical support teams of PagerDuty Operations Cloud, we never reached out to the technical support team. In my team, the technical support will handle the cloud-based platforms and everything. However, regarding PagerDuty Operations Cloud, in my organization, we do not have any technical team related to it.

Prior to PagerDuty Operations Cloud, I have not seen any product of the same kind in my company. We do use PagerDuty Operations Cloud and also New Relic. A similar application, I have not seen before.

I have not found any complexity in the initial setup process of PagerDuty Operations Cloud. The deployment was already pre-deployed.

I have not come across any other options or solutions available in the market. I am not sure if the on-call policy in Splunk is similar to PagerDuty Operations Cloud.

We have integrated PagerDuty Operations Cloud with the Freshservice tool. Regarding automation in PagerDuty Operations Cloud, in my team, the admin access has been given to the onshore employees, not to Indian employees. I am not sure about that because I have been requesting admin access for a long time, but I have not been granted it yet. Given my experience with PagerDuty Operations Cloud, I recommend increasing the on-call primary escalation time to ten minutes. Additionally, for one hundred alerts, if we can manage that to one particular incident for one hundred alerts, that would also be beneficial. This adjustment will help with the mean time to resolution in all organizations. My overall rating for this product is ten out of ten.

I have been in my current role for the past 18 months, and we started using PagerDuty Operations Cloud earlier this year around January or February to manage our operations.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud's primary use case is alerting. We switched to ensure alerts are efficient and effective so that the on-call engineer does not miss any alert. We instrument many alerts on it, including VPN downtime, transaction monitoring, success rate, and latency. We configured PagerDuty Operations Cloud so that if any of those metrics are met or if any of those SLOs and SLIs are breached, we can quickly take action and resolve the issue. For day-to-day use, we run a 24-hour shift where all shifts are entered into the system, and every on-call engineer uses PagerDuty Operations Cloud to receive alerts. Beyond alerting, we also use scheduling, incident management, and incident reports.

The best features of PagerDuty Operations Cloud include alerting, which is very important and the main reason we retain it, and scheduling as well.

Initially, we used Excel to manage our on-call engineers' schedules, but with PagerDuty Operations Cloud, it shows when you are on duty and allows other team members from different teams to check who is on duty without needing to ask. This has significantly reduced the time spent on checking who is on duty by providing visibility at each point.

Scheduling with PagerDuty Operations Cloud has reduced confusion because we set it up with a round-robin rotation, and nobody needs to update it every day unlike with Excel, where we had to create a new schedule every two months. Now we only make changes when necessary, making the process more efficient and organized for on-call engineers to know when they are on duty. The system also alerts them in advance for their upcoming shifts.

One way PagerDuty Operations Cloud could improve is through the scheduling feature, which can be tricky, especially with complex schedules. I have found it stressful to schedule effectively, even after going through PagerDuty University and the forums. Sometimes I need to manually interchange people because minor changes can scatter the whole schedule. A more efficient scheduling system or better guidance for complex schedules would help.

Another area for improvement is alerting. When multiple incidents occur simultaneously, it would be helpful if alerts listed the issues instead of muddling them together. This would make it easier to manage what needs urgent attention without missing anything.

Initially, when I first joined the company, we primarily used Grafana and Slack as our means to manage incidents. The alert was on Slack, and the dashboard was on Grafana, which required us to use three different applications to do the same thing.

With PagerDuty Operations Cloud now, we don't need to go through multiple tools to manage alerts and incidents. We don't need to go through Jira to log incidents. It streamlines the process, and with incident management, it can escalate to the next person so that alerts are rarely missed. It has made our workflow easier and much more efficient.

For incident management in my team, PagerDuty Operations Cloud has really helped with alerting in such a way that when an issue happens, it reaches out to the on-call engineer to ensure they don't miss it. There is a pop-up, probably on your browser or phone, and if you miss the pop-up or don't acknowledge it in time, it moves to your phone and starts calling; sometimes it sends texts and sometimes calls your phone. The call is very persistent, so if the incident is not acknowledged, it escalates to the next line, which can be your manager or your functional manager, and it keeps escalating until it gets acknowledged. This way, the alert is rarely missed because at some point, somebody will surely pick up.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud helps us effectively manage incidents without needing to sit down all day and watch our screens.

Alerting is key, and scheduling is also important but not as crucial as alerting. We also use incident management and incident reporting, which allow us to manage who should be escalated to during incidents and keep track of when incidents happen and when they are resolved so that everyone knows what occurred and how it was handled.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud has positively impacted my organization by providing effectiveness and efficiency in the way we work, with less alert fatigue, meaning alerts are rarely missed. For example, if four or five alerts come on Slack at the same time, you might miss them while focusing on resolving current issues. However, with PagerDuty Operations Cloud, since it calls for every issue, you will see any new alerts and resolve them, thus reducing missed alerts and increasing efficiency. This leads to better service for our end users, increased profit, and less pressure on engineers, making it a win-win for everybody.

Our MTTR has significantly reduced; however, I cannot provide specific numbers because with Slack, we were not measuring it accurately. Now with PagerDuty Operations Cloud, we can measure how long it takes to acknowledge alerts and resolve issues, giving us metrics to manage this effectively.

My advice for others looking into using PagerDuty Operations Cloud is that if their workflow requires them to be alert to incidents while continuing their work without being tethered to a screen, it is a very helpful tool to have.

One additional thought about PagerDuty Operations Cloud is that if they started issuing certificates for completing courses on PagerDuty University, it would encourage more people to engage with the training, similar to how New Relic operates. Having a certificate would demonstrate rigorous training and the capability to apply what was learned. I would rate this product a 6 out of 10.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud is used to understand whether there are false positives or false alerts because it is integrated into a system where there would be a phone number, such as anyone from the team's phone number or perhaps the shift supervisor's phone number. Once those triggers are there, it would hit that number until somebody picks it up and acknowledges or escalates the alert or threat.

In a recent incident through PagerDuty Operations Cloud, there was one issue with one appliance that was continuously going wrong. Even if we were acknowledging it and closing it and had denoted it as a false positive and a false trigger or false alarm, it was still continuously hitting us. There was some issue with the appliance or some issue with the server. Once we understood that, we escalated this to the company's SecOps team, and they had to go inside to find out more details. PagerDuty Operations Cloud team was coordinated with them. Once they were coordinated, they could dig in deep and find out what the issue was. A high-priority P1 ticket was raised for that as per ITIL principles.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud was being used inside the office only, and if we enter anybody's number, for example, it would continuously be hitting at any time whenever the alerts are there. Whoever's numbers are added, such as a shift supervisor or shift people, those would keep on hitting back.

The best features that PagerDuty Operations Cloud offers are that it is user-friendly, the design is scalable, and it is quite easy to use for a newbie as well. Logging into the alerts as well as logging into any details are easy over PagerDuty Operations Cloud.

It is user-friendly because it does not need any sort of coding or any sort of scripting language to be filled in. It can just operate with mouse clicks. We need to know how to operate it, when to close, when not to close, and how to read green, yellow, red, and blue monitors or markers as per the monitoring.

It is easy to use, and I think the software also comes at a very low budget or low cost, which is very cost-effective and cost-friendly as well, rather than its alternatives. It benefits in every way, in network security, in cybersecurity, and overall company data monitoring and firewall as well.

I do not have any specific numbers because those will not be shared with us. This is confidential information. The response time is great, and after using PagerDuty Operations Cloud, false positives and false alarms, as well as security monitoring, were very strongly done.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud can be improved by adding more features. Whatever manual work is there could be automated using scripting. Then it would be more efficient.

When we receive a call, it has to be entered all the way. If one thing had been entered, then multiple things need not have to be entered multiple times. It does not need to be entered repeatedly. It could be automated in that way.

In my current field, I have been working almost eight to nine years.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud is stable.

I rate its scalability a ten out of ten.

Customer support is good.

No other options were evaluated because this is the only thing we started our work with. I am not aware of what other companies use.

Money would be saved because it is a tool that, if automated, can do a lot of work for the employees that would otherwise be manual tasking. Thereby, it would save both money and time.

I can give the advice that anyone can surely go ahead with this product because it would be a win-win situation for both PagerDuty Operations Cloud as well as the company that is using it. I have rated this product a nine out of ten.

We receive a notification if there are any failed jobs or operations. We have some Bamboo agents working, so if one of the jobs fails on one of these servers, PagerDuty Operations Cloud creates an incident and notifies us. We use PagerDuty Operations Cloud for monitoring purposes, and it works great for our current needs.

The best features PagerDuty Operations Cloud offers include quick access to failed jobs and the ability to add descriptions about the failed job. The quick access allows us to rapidly identify which job or operation has failed because it sends the job name or the operation name that has failed.

I have heard that integration between our systems and PagerDuty Operations Cloud was easy to implement. For efficiency, we can monitor our deployment process in real time. For incident response, PagerDuty Operations Cloud creates alarms that make calls to the specific person who can handle these issues.

We have fewer missed incidents because it keeps calling regarding the incidents until they are resolved. We have also reduced downtime because we notice errors and failed jobs, and we work to fix them.

The system is very smooth right now.

We have been using the solution for about one year.

We have not experienced any stability issues.

We have not experienced any scalability issues.

We did not try to reach out to customer service because we did not face any issues.

I prefer not to use previous solutions.

I joined the team after they had already purchased and configured PagerDuty Operations Cloud, so I did not have knowledge about the setup process.

I do not have any experience with the implementation team.

Time saved.

There was no relationship between setup cost and other factors.

We did not consider alternate solutions.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud is a great tool that saves time and is worth starting to use. I would rate this product nine out of ten because nothing is fully perfect. My overall review rating for this product is nine out of ten.

My main use case for PagerDuty Operations Cloud is incident management, as we use it for alerting people who are on call.

I definitely use PagerDuty Operations Cloud for incident management; we have set up the account, schedule, teams, etc., and we continuously monitor our logs for any anomalies with proactive alerts. We define priority because we don't want to alert people on the phone unnecessarily, thus we categorize alerts based on severity and business disruption, sending information via the integrated APIs to the relevant teams, specifying whether to communicate through Slack or phone based on the severity.

This is the main use case we have; it's a tool that last mile connect kind of people use.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud positively impacts my organization by helping us win customer trust; when problems occur, the speed of our reaction and involvement with customers is crucial, and PagerDuty Operations Cloud facilitates quick responses to potential issues. PagerDuty Operations Cloud allows our team to react swiftly, which can be challenging without it, as we can't manually sift through all logs. Automation for remediation is also in place, enhancing confidence and allowing some issues to be resolved without manual intervention.

The best features of PagerDuty Operations Cloud include integration, mobile app, reporting, and analytics, which I find very useful based on the access I have.

We review the data periodically to see our performance; for example, we check for alert fatigue, how many alerts have been addressed, and our TDX metrics such as time to respond. The analytics of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is so good that it gives me good visibility with just a few clicks, which helps in discussions with the team for continuous improvements.

More analytics can be brought into PagerDuty Operations Cloud; while I know there are some, they still seem basic to me, and having options for user-customized charts would be really helpful, especially in this GenAI world where prompts can yield valuable data.

The analytics provided by PagerDuty Operations Cloud can be significantly improved, as they still feel basic to me.

I have been using PagerDuty Operations Cloud for more than five years.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud is stable.

I don't think I have ever needed customer support because our usage and the lack of issues may prevent any corner cases or other problems, or perhaps it relates to licensing. I personally have never utilized customer support.

I previously used another solution which I won't name because it's proprietary, but the user experience was not great; when I learned about PagerDuty Operations Cloud, it had a lot of positive discussions, and I was excited to find we were already using it when I joined this company.

TDX metrics are definitely improving due to PagerDuty Operations Cloud being in place; time to respond, time to initiate, and time to mitigate are key metrics influenced positively.

I usually am not involved in pricing, setup cost, or licensing, as that's handled by another team, so I don't have much visibility on that part.

I advise others to use PagerDuty Operations Cloud, as it's going to help in building customer trust. There's an operations team for those aspects. My overall review rating for PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 7 out of 10.

Initially, I started using it for managing on-call schedules. As the tech stack developed, we began using it for service alerts and event routing, and then transitioned to operational views and dashboarding. It eventually became central to our alerting systems, where all monitoring tools would send information to PagerDuty, enabling event management and routing to whoever was on call.

The product used to be unique in getting the message to the right person to fix the job. It integrates with multiple applications and is highly customizable, with policies, escalation procedures, and an event routing tool that ensures contacting the right person. A significant advantage is that it includes a metrics overlay, which provides an overview of what is happening in the environment, and its scheduling capabilities are superior to other operations.

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.

The solution has been 100% stable with no issues due to PagerDuty.

The product was highly scalable, with no limits on the number of applications or event routing rules. However, managing a large number of these became cumbersome, suggesting a need for a way to define everything in code.

The customer service was amazingly good. They helped us build our event routing.

Positive

The setup is very straightforward, allowing users to be up and running within minutes. Usually, one knowledgeable person is enough to manage it.

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 to better customize purchases.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.

We use the solution for incident management.

PagerDuty helps you bifurcate teams and redirect alerts to specific teams. It has good user management and is easy to plug in. It has good APIs to integrate with our apps and send alerts, making it compatible with most applications. It becomes a powerful infrastructure when handling priority applications, so we use it during the critical phase of our engineering development.

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 cannot extend it to send alerts to other teams. You can escalate it within the team but not redirect the alert to different teams.

It has a good API for integrating with apps and good documentation. We seldom ask the support team for help. The app can call the on-call person even when the system is offline. It helps you handle alerts quickly, ensuring a fast turnover.

It's straightforward to set up for an organization. It is easy to integrate with our apps.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.