Alerting Tools Comparison

Discussions focus on incident alerting and on-call management tools like PagerDuty, OpsGenie, VictorOps, and alternatives such as All Quiet, covering features, costs, notification methods, alert fatigue, and responsibilities.

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scorpion032 Jun 30, 2012 View on HN

What infrastructure do you use for alerting your customers?

yobo Nov 30, 2016 View on HN

what are you missing compared to other alerting tools?

mads_quist Sep 22, 2023 View on HN

PagerDuty is extremely expensive and I decided to disrupt the market a little bit by creating All Quiet: You might want to check it out: https://allquiet.app

chronid Apr 28, 2017 View on HN

I'm sorry: it's your application, your alerts, your responsibility. Not Ops.

Attackerabu Mar 6, 2025 View on HN

How about AlertOps? Is it a suitable alternative?

romanhn Jun 8, 2016 View on HN

PagerDuty should fit the bill, it's their core competency. You won't need fire drills, since you can see if folks are acking and resolving alerts. Disclaimer: I work there.

djohnston Jul 22, 2022 View on HN

Monitoring and alerting not engaging jeeze

Wouter33 Jan 13, 2014 View on HN

That's monitoring. Alerting seems only possible via Email, Hipchat, SMS and Telephone.

jldugger Jul 22, 2016 View on HN

Is there anything to recommend it over say OpsGenie or VictorOps?

tryauuum Jul 28, 2024 View on HN

every time I see notifications in Slack / Telegram it makes me depressed. Text messengers were not designed for this. If you get the "something is wrong" alert it becomes part of history, it won't re-alert you if it's still present. And if you have more than one type of alert it will be lost in historyI guess alerts to messengers are OK as long it's only a couple manually created ones, and there should be a graphical dashboard to learn the rest of problems