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CA Process Automation vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 11, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

CA Process Automation
Ranking in Process Automation
37th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Ranking in Process Automation
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
101
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), AIOps (3rd), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st), Autonomous Operational Resilience (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of CA Process Automation is 1.0%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Process Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud0.7%
CA Process Automation1.0%
Other98.3%
Process Automation
 

Featured Reviews

SJ
Automation Solutions Developer at HCL Technologies
Added value to the delivery of services and the customer experience
We design end-to-end automation solutions for repetitive tasks performed by IT support teams This tool is used in my organization for automating IT infrastructure related incidents or service requests.  Built-in operators available for most integrations. Easy to manage. Attended/unattended…
reviewer2879727 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Unified incident response has reduced alert noise and improves on-call focus and coordination
PagerDuty Operations Cloud could improve its noise reduction by making deduplication and suppression more automated instead of manually tuned, and the service dependency graph could be more intuitive with cleaner visuals and easier-to-understand root cause tracing during major incidents. Automation could go further with smarter runbook triggers and AI-driven suggestions to help find root causes, which could save a lot of time for engineers who are struggling to understand what is actually happening. These AI capabilities could lower the time by maybe 50–60%. Analytics and reporting could be more flexible, allowing custom dashboards and filters and team-level MTTA and MTTR breakdowns, so that it is segregated based on teams and it is much easier to have custom dashboards for the teams to understand more. Alert storms were a recurring frustration for the on-call team, and escalation overrides and service dependency graphs can get a bit confusing in larger environments. More customizable analytics and smarter automation would make the platform even easier, more flexible and more powerful for the team to understand. PagerDuty Operations Cloud could improve its analytics flexibility with customized dashboards and AI capabilities to be more trained and more reliable. Service dependency mapping can also feel cluttered in big environments, making it harder to trace upstream and downstream impacts during bigger incidents. We implemented PagerDuty Operations Cloud's AI to help with alert grouping and early incident insights, but accuracy was not consistent enough to rely on during critical events. It occasionally grouped unrelated alerts or missed correlations, which limited the operational efficiency gains we expected. The on-call team still depended heavily on manual triage because AI suggestions were not always aligned with the real root cause. Overall, AI added some value but it has not yet reached the reliability needed to significantly improve the incident response efficiency. It needs more training or more work.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"For our use it really does very well; it provides us exactly what we need, and it runs with low-resource utilization and moves quickly."
"They were good, they helped us a lot from the beginning, from installation through the whole process, and not just their support, but also their professional services are top notch."
"This tool is used in my organization for automating IT infrastructure related incidents or service requests."
"It has provided ROI by auto-resolving incidents or requests in the ITSM queue, improved MTTR and SLA adherence, and added value to the delivery of services and the customer experience."
"The value lies in just being able to automate things such that there's less human interaction and, therefore, more consistency in our automations."
"Before implementing this product, our Problem and Change Management Processes were very poor, but nowadays, thanks to CA Process Automation (PAM), we no longer have this problem, as we now have all of the processes' rules placed inside of it."
"It’s a great product, extremely versatile but takes a certain skillset to use and implementation of automation can be time consuming when done properly."
"PAM has the ability to integrate and build solutions that work well in CA's suite of service management products and those that are outside of service management."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud is the best tool available, and I can confidently say it is the best tool for all aspects, not just incident management or escalation, but for all analytical functions as well."
"It is one of the most critical things you can do in your infrastructure, and it is a no-brainer, just do it."
"PagerDuty helps you bifurcate teams and redirect alerts to specific teams"
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud was really an important key for us to maintain the product and ensure that we were always connected with our customers while continuing our lives outside of work."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud is one of the important aspects in our organization which we use widely for incident response and quick incident resolution."
"The product easily integrates with other solutions."
"We have seen a positive return on investment from PagerDuty Operations Cloud through improved operational efficiencies, faster incident response, and reduced downtime."
"Afterwards, we didn't want to get rid of it."
 

Cons

"These configurations can be changed only through the installation wizard. There's no way to update such information in the administration interface, which is, in my opinion, very bad."
"Better reporting, because we have to true up our licenses every three months because we license on running concurrent processes, so we have to provide a report to CA every three months using their tool -- which never works."
"Although it's drag-and-drop, there's a little bit of a learning curve to use it correctly."
"OCR capability should be added as a feature."
"Every so often the service needs to be restarted otherwise it runs slower and slower. I think this may be due to a memory leak."
"It’s very complex, which is one of the disadvantages."
"CA offers minimal public information pertaining to the performance drain the usage of some objects and operators introduce to processing."
"Somehow the product group within CA left the product dry from some regular expression functionality."
"The assigning and editing of the escalation policies could be improved."
"The pricing for PagerDuty Operations Cloud is a bit expensive, especially for startups like us, compared to the other platform which I mentioned, which is Rootly."
"I would rate PagerDuty Operations Cloud as eight out of ten because the cons include a complex configuration process and high costs for each add-on that I try to obtain, making subscriptions costly, along with limited customization in certain incident workflows."
"The initial setup and configuration can be complex, especially for teams managing multiple services, escalation policies, and integrations."
"Open alerts should properly respond to SMS resolution beyond the initial alert."
"In terms of witnessing an ROI, no one has really done that level of due diligence."
"It always needs more integrated applications, especially if you are not a software developer."
"Smartphone App can be flaky sometimes."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has provided ROI by auto resolving incidents or requests in the ITSM queue, improved MTTR and SLA adherence, and added value to the delivery of services and the customer experience."
"There are a lot of automation savings from any process which is repeatable."
"Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."
"The price is very high."
"PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."
"If we wanted phone calls or additional SMSs, we would have to pitch up for those. They give us so many per month per user, then we have to pay extra if it goes over that."
"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 solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."
"The cost is quite high. But if you want to get a full-featured application and you have a big team..."
"If you add more people, then you have to pay more, which is always a thing with the SaaS solutions."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
19%
Manufacturing Company
18%
Construction Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Performing Arts
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business32
Midsize Enterprise25
Large Enterprise79
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
I am not current on what the current pricing is for PagerDuty Operations Cloud, but I assume it is per seat and per responder.
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
The users would complain that they always had a hard time maintaining their schedules, their escalations, and installing the app. I got a lot of complaints from the people that responded to pages r...
What is your primary use case for PagerDuty?
The usual use cases for PagerDuty Operations Cloud include incident management. I ran the infrastructure teams and SRE, so the primary use case was incident management and spinning up RCAs, trackin...
 

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Sample Customers

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