What is our primary use case?
My main use case for
PagerDuty Operations Cloud is mostly for monitoring and alerting, and we are also using it for
Jira and Slack integrations.
I mostly use PagerDuty Operations Cloud for monitoring and alerting through Jira and Slack integrations, where we create a ticket and if we want to close the ticket then we use the PagerDuty Operations Cloud dashboard itself instead of going through the Jira dashboard and closing it manually, so integrations helped a lot. Even with the Slack integration, instead of closing directly on PagerDuty Operations Cloud, we can close it on the Slack message itself.
I think the API usage for PagerDuty Operations Cloud is also helpful.
What is most valuable?
The best features PagerDuty Operations Cloud offers include all the required things needed, and I think I am good as it has the people and the team management, and everything looks good.
Regarding team management in PagerDuty Operations Cloud, I appreciate how it shows which people are API, people who can manage API, and who can manage the entire systems, and that's good actually.
PagerDuty Operations Cloud has positively impacted my organization as I think the mean time to resolve has reduced significantly.
The solution's alert reduction feature has had a positive impact on preventing costly incidents in our organization as we have reached our SLAs due to that, by reducing alert noise.
What needs improvement?
I think PagerDuty Operations Cloud can be improved cost-wise as it is a bit high when compared with
Opsgenie services that are offered by Jira, so I think if you can manage that part it will be good.
I would like to add that everyone is integrating AI into their tools, and I am unsure whether PagerDuty Operations Cloud has that at the moment besides the cost.
I choose nine out of ten because I think there should be some edge cases including integration with AI. Every tool is evolving, so I think PagerDuty Operations Cloud still needs some more advanced features to compete with other services.
I do not have much idea about PagerDuty Operations Cloud's AI capabilities when it comes to governance and security, but we need to set guardrails for it on its capabilities.
Regarding PagerDuty Operations Cloud's AI capabilities, I think it is mostly reliable, as far as I know, when it comes to its accuracy and reliability of output.
I have not implemented AI and automation through PagerDuty Operations Cloud for incident response, and I am not aware of how it has changed our operational efficiency because it was not really needed during that time.
I am not aware of any ways PagerDuty Operations Cloud's AI functionality has improved my team's ability to focus on core tasks rather than routine issues.
I would assess the effectiveness of PagerDuty Operations Cloud's generative AI in providing insights for decision-making as something that would be good if it can reach SLAs and eliminate false alarms.
For how long have I used the solution?
It has been one year since I have been using PagerDuty Operations Cloud.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
PagerDuty Operations Cloud is mostly stable at ninety-nine point nine percent.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I am unsure about PagerDuty Operations Cloud's scalability because that is based on cloud; it is not hosted.
How are customer service and support?
I did not really need to reach out to customer support as everything worked normally, and we can get all the information through the documentation.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Without PagerDuty Operations Cloud, we used other tools including CloudWatch alerting, but that did not help to resolve the issue. However, with PagerDuty Operations Cloud, I think it pointed the exact root cause, including which service is failing, based on PagerDuty Operations Cloud scripting.
We previously used a different solution, CloudWatch alerting, but we had to use our own way of writing Lambdas, which did not alert on phones or based on timing, geographic location, and that is the reason why we had to switch to the enterprise-level PagerDuty Operations Cloud so we can create schedules and alert based on alert policies.
How was the initial setup?
We do not purchase PagerDuty Operations Cloud through the
AWS Marketplace as it is a separate licensing, not through
AWS.
What was our ROI?
I have not seen a return on investment regarding employees or money saved, but mostly the client commitment that we have given has reached, and it is good.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is all managed by upper management, so they did not reveal the pricing or other details, but what I heard was that it is better to use
Opsgenie after using PagerDuty Operations Cloud because of pricing and licensing.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing PagerDuty Operations Cloud, we evaluated other options including Jira's Opsgenie, but I think it does not have really matured the way PagerDuty Operations Cloud has.
What other advice do I have?
My advice for others looking into using PagerDuty Operations Cloud is that nowadays there are many tools, but we need to make sure whether it matches our business requirements including integrations, whatever PagerDuty Operations Cloud integrates, and then go with PagerDuty Operations Cloud because it is easy to use. I gave this review a rating of nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.